Program:

Tuesday 16 June:

student’s arrival day (and for lecturers who on Wednesday would like to visit the Maj Institute of Pharmacology and the Faculty of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, or other places in Krakow)

18:00 – 20:00 Students’ Presentations (3 min flash talks) – getting to know each other
Moderators: Barbara Przewłocka, Katarzyna Starowicz and Ryszard Przewłocki

Following the presentations, a guided walk through the old Jewish quarter of Kazimierz for those interested

Wednesday 17 June:

lecturers’ arrival day, Workshop Day for Students
9:00 For students: Bus transfer from the hotel to the Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences (IP PAS)
9:30 Welcome: Katarzyna Starowicz-Bubak, director – Research topics at IP PAS Grzegorz Kreiner – Presentation on the new Center for Development of New Pharmacotherapies of Central Nervous System Disorders (CEPHARES)
10:00 – 10:30 Eija Kalso – Sleep and Pain
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Katarzyna Starowicz-Bubak, Joanna Mika – Introduction to methods used in pain testing in preclinical (animal) models
11:30 – 13:00 Workshop – Pain testing in preclinical (animal) models
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch at IP PAS
14:15 Bus transfer from IP PAS to Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University (IP UJ)
14:45 Welcome: Przemysław Bąbel, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University.
15:00 – 15:30 Aleksandra Budzisz – Introduction to methods used in pain testing in human subjects
15:30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00 Workshop – Human pain models and pain assessment
18:15 Bus transfer from IP UJ to the hotel
20:00 Official opening of the school
Welcome: Barbara Przewłocka (Chair, EFIC Pain School), Luis-Garcia Larrea (EFIC President), Magdalena Kocot-Kępska (PTBB), Katarzyna Starowicz-Bubak (V-ce Chair, EFIC Pain School)
Get together

Thursday 18 June:

9:00 – 9:45 Herta Flor – The role of learning and brain plasticity in the development and maintenance of chronic pain
9:45 – 10:30 Franziska Denk – The role of the local tissue environment in chronic pain conditions.
10:30 – 11:15 Luis Villanueva – Central maladaptive mechanisms at the origin of pain sensitization: translational links
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:30 Johan W.S. Vlaeyen – Beyond the average! An idiographic approach to pain science
12:30 – 13:15 Herta Flor – A mechanism-based approach to the treatment of chronic pain
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:15 Przemysław Bąbel – How much of pain is learned? Uncovering the role of learning in pain and placebo effects
15:15 – 16:00 MEDOC presentation (TBC)
19:00 Dinner at a restaurant in town

Friday 19 June:

9:00 – 9:45 Nadine Attal – The concept of nociplastic pain
9:45 – 10:30 Esther Pogatzki-Zahn – Postsurgical pain: from basic science to clinical practice
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 Ralf Baron – Advanced sensory profiling in peripheral neuropathic pain
11:45 – 12:30 Joanna Maria Zakrzewska – Designing phase 2 studies (first in patients) in trigeminal neuralgia
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Luis Garcia-Larrea – Pain and its brain: trials and tribulations of the ‘pain matrix’
14:45 – 15:30 Didier Bouhassira – Neuromodulation based analgesia: a true success story for translational pain research
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45 Ilona Obara – Therapeutic effects of spinal cord stimulation
Free afternoon and evening

Saturday 20 June:

How to improve translation?
9:00 – 9:45 Per Hansson – Neuropathic pain: Lost in translation
9:45 – 10:30 Magdalena Kocot-Kępska – New drugs in pain therapy – effects of preclinical studies
10:30 – 11.15 Esther Pogatzki-Zahn – IT-Pain: recommendations for improving translational pain research
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:30 Franziska Denk – Thinking about effect sizes & what they mean for your experiments
12:30 – 13:30 Short speeches by students (5 min.): Translational aspects of pain – what we have learned Moderators: Franziska Denk and Esther Pogatzki-Zahn
13:30 The official closing of the 5th European Pain Federation Krakow Pain School on Translational Pain Research: From Lab to Clinic

All attendees of the EFIC School are welcome to download the complete event photo archive via this link download. Please note that the ZIP file is password-protected; the access code will be provided in an official communication from the organizing committee.