International Pain School 2018

Pain is a major global burden and still evades effective therapy. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) is committed to improving pain education as a key strategy towards understanding and treating pain. Consistent with goals and programs of the IASP, the main aim of the International Pain Summer School in South America is to address mechanisms mediating the transition between acute pain and chronic, pathological pain and how these are modulated by, and in turn, modulate societal factors. This pain school also focusses on interrogating, discussing and debating on structure-function properties of neural circuits that are of key importance to acute and chronic pain and how they are dynamically altered over the course of pain chronicity.

The school will be structured into refresher courses, special lectures, methods-oriented workshops, trainee talks, debates, and direct one-to-one interactions with dynamic and inspiring international faculty. The international gender-balanced faculty will comprise multidisciplinary scientifically leading scientists representing multiple facets of pain and interactions with other disciplines. Basic and clinical research will go hand-in-hand in ascertaining optimal educational and scientific perspectives for trainees from all disciplines. Another key aim is to promote scientific and cultural exchange between South American scientists and the international pain community.

The summer school will be held at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America (HCLA) in Santiago de Chile, Chile. The number of trainees will be limited to 35-40 to ensure close personal interactions.

Application deadline: December 10th, 2017

Organisers:

Rohini Kuner, Pharmacology Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Rolf- Detlef Treede, Centre for Biomedicine and Medical Technology, Mannheim, Germany

Herta Flor, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany.

Summer school coordinators:

Dr. Pooja Gupta and Rose LeFaucheur

Phone: +49-6221-548641 Email: Email: applications@internationalpainschool.de

Interested candidates should submit application materials (in English language) comprising a letter of motivation, CV including list of publications if any, letter of support from supervisor or mentor and proof of your status (graduate student, medical student or junior postdoctoral fellow) via student identity card or official letter from supervisor. Selection of candidates will be based upon merit.

The growing list of summer school's international faculty includes the following world renowned neuroscientists:

Prof. Mario Campero, University of Chile, Santiago

Prof. Margarita Calvo, Assistant Professor of Physiology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Prof. Marucia Chacur, Anatomy, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Prof. Karen Davis, University of Toronto, Canada

Prof. Yves DeKoninck, Laval University, Canada

Prof. Herta Flor, Central Institute of Mental Health, Heidelberg University

Prof. Roberto Guiloff, Neurology, Faculty of Medicine University of Chile, Santiago

Prof. Rohini Kuner, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Germany

Prof. Thomas Kuner, Medical faculty, Heidelberg University, Germany

Prof. Jeff Mogil, McGill University, Canada

Prof. Michael Salter, University of Toronto,Canada

Prof. Jan Siemens, Heidelberg University, Germany

Prof. Jimmy Stehberg Liberman, U Andres Bello, Santiago

Prof. Rolf-Detlef Treede, Heidelberg University, Germany

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