Analgesic, Anesthetic, and Addiction Clinical Trial Translations, Innovations, Opportunities, and Networks

Jennifer Gewandter, PhD, ACTTION Associate Director, will deliver a presentation on "Advantages, limitations, and considerations for composite outcome measures in chronic pain trials" at a workshop she is chairing on "Incorporation of pain intensity and physical and emotional functioning in primary outcomes of pain studies: a discussion of novel outcomes for basic and clinical research"

Robert H. Dworkin, PhD, ACTTION Director, will deliver the John D. Loeser Distinguished Lecture Award, which "is intended to create a tradition that instructs, inspires, and challenges clinicians and researchers to understand human pain, and the suffering it produces, in the broadest ways possible." The title of his award lecture is "The greatest teacher, failure is: falsely positive, falsely negative, and falsely interpreted analgesic clinical trials"