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4-6 November, 2021 - CET

#EFICVirtualPainSummit 2021

The biggest online pain education event of the year features not only dedicated tracks for physicians, physiotherapists, nurses and psychologists but also offers interprofessional learning sessions - all of it based on the four EFIC Pain Curricula. Advance your knowledge in pain management, learn from leading experts in their field and join us for 3 days of learning and inspiration! 


Speakers
  • Prof. Sam H Ahmedzai

    Professor Emeritus of Palliative Medicine, The University of Sheffield
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Associate Professor Claire Ashton-James, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor of Pain Medicine, The University of Sydney
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Professor Nadine Attal, M.D., Ph.D.

    Director of the Pain Center, Associate director of the U987 Inserm Research Unit, APHP and University Paris Saclay
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Edward Baker

    Lecturer, Applied Technology for Clinical Care, King's College London
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Professor Dr. Alexander Baldacchino, Ph.D., FRCPsych, FRCP

    Professor in Addiction Medicine with the University of St Andrews and NHS Fife Consultant in Addiction Psychiatry
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Tim Beames

    Physiotherapist
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sivera Berben, Ph.D., RN, FEANS

    Associate professor of Emergency and Critical Health Care, Knowledge Centre of Sustainable Healthcare, School of Health Studies, HAN University of Applied Sciences
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sónia F. Bernardes

    Associate Professor with Habilitation in Psychology, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Indre Bileviciute-Ljungar

    Senior Consultant and Specialist in Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine, Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic, St. Göran Hospital, Stockholm
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Catherine Blake

    Dean and Head UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, Ireland
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Katja Boersma, Ph.D.

    Professor of Psychology, Örebro University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Didier Bouhassira

    Director of Research, Inserm, Ambroise Pare Hospital
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Chris Bridgeford

    Chairman of Affa Sair Trust
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Emma Briggs

    Senior Lecturer, King's College London
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Line Caes, Ph.D.

    Lecturer of Psychology, University of Stirling
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Paul Campbell, Ph.D.

    Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Medicine, Keele University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Karin Cannons

    Consultant Nurse Pain Management, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Máire-Bríd Casey

    Senior Physiotherapist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Suzanne Chapman (MSc, BSc, RN, NMP)

    Clinical Nurse Specialist, Pain Management. The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London. UK.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Flaminia Coluzzi, M.D.

    Associate Professor in Anaesthesia, Dept. Medical and Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. An De Groef, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven and postdoctoral research fellow FWO
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Antoon De Laat, DDS, Ph.D.

    Dept Oral Health Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Verena del Valle Mattsson, CCLS

    Certified Child Life Specialist
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Bart Depreitere

    Neurosurgeon, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Hemakumar Devan, Ph.D.

    Research Fellow & Pain Management Physiotherapist, University of Otago, New Zealand
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Dr. Geert Dom

    Professor of Psychiatry University of Antwerp and Medical Director PC Multiversum, Boechout Belgium
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Catherine Doody

    Associate Professor, School of Public Health Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College, Dublin, Ireland
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Owen Doody, Ph.D.

    Senior Lecturer, University of Limerick, Ireland
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Stefan Elbers

    Professor, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Research Group Lifestyle & Health, The Netherlands
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Patrick H Finan, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. David Finn, Ph.D.

    Professor and Head of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, National University of Ireland Galway || Co-Director, Centre for Pain Research
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Emma Fisher, Ph.D.

    Versus Arthritis Career Development Fellow, Centre for Pain Research, University of Bath
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Dr. Rainer Freynhagen, DEAA

    Chair Dept of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, Pain Medicine & Palliative Care Pain Center Starnberger See
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Johanna Fritz, Ph.D.

    Senior lecturer, Mälardalen University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Brona Fullen

    European Pain Federation EFIC President - Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Martin Galligan FHEA RN, MSc, PGCLTHE

    Lecturer Practitioner, The Royal Marsden School, London
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Luis Garcia-Larrea, MD, Ph.D.

    Director of Research, INSERM - National Agency for Medical Research, France
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Dr. Janne Gierthmühlen

    Senior Physician and Researcher at the Division of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy, Dept Neurology, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Irmela Gnass

    Professor, Institute of Nursing Science and Practice, Paracelsus Medical University, Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Ph.D., ABPP, FCAHS

    Research Chair in Aging and Health and Professor of Psychology, University of Regina, Canada
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Dr. Monika Hasenbring

    Professor emerita
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Hani Hattar

    Senior Consultant in Pain Management, specialist in pain management, Rehabilitation Medicine and Geriatrics
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Winfried Häuser

    Adjunct Professor, Department Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technical University Munich, Germany Senior Physician, Department Internal Medicine, Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Jasmine Hearn

    Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Programme Leader for MSc Health Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sigrid Heemskerk

    Nurse Pain Consultant
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jonathan Hill

    School of Primary, Community and Social Care Primary Care Centre Versus Arthritis, Keele University, United Kingdom
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Adam Hirsh, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Morten Hoegh, Dr MH, Ph.D., MSc Pain

    Ass.prof, specialist physiotherapist
    BIOGRAPHY
  • David Hohenschurz-Schmidt, M.Sc M.Ost

    PhD Researcher at Imperial College London, Osteopath
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr Sinéad Holden, Ph.D.

    Research Fellow, Clinical Research Centre, School of Medicine, University College Dublin.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Ivan Huijnen Ph.D.

    Senior researcher, Maastricht University and Adelante
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Kelly Ickmans, Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant Professor, Pain in Motion Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ulrike Kaiser

    Clinical Psychologist, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Judith Kappesser

    Senior Research Fellow, University of Giessen, Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kai Karos, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor, Open Universiteit
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Edmund Keogh

    Deputy Director, Bath Centre for Pain Research and Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology, United Kingdom
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Corelien Kloek, Ph.D.

    Senior Researcher, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, The Netherlands
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Roger Knaggs

    Associate Professor in Clinical Pharmacy Practice, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Andreas Kopf

    Chair, Department of Pain Medicine, Benjamin Franklin campus, Charité University of Medicine, Berlin, Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Assist. prof. Nevenka Krčevski Škvarč, MD, MS, Ph.D.

    Unit for Palliative Care, Department of Oncology, University Clinical Center Maribor, Slovenia
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Dr. Miriam Kunz, Ph.D.

    Professor of Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Natalie Lane

    Consultant Clinical Psychologist, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Dr. Stefan Lautenbacher

    Head of the Department Physiological Psychology, University of Bamberg
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Emelien Lauwerier

    Ghent University Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology Ghent Health Psychology Lab Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Belgium
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Chris J Main, Ph.D., F.B.Ps.S.

    Emeritus Professor in Clinical Psychology, Primary Care Services, Keele University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Anneleen Malfliet, Ph.D.

    Assistant professor and postdoctoral researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Petra Mandysová

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Studies Department of Nursing University Pardubice, Czech Republic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dipl.-Psych. Peter Mattenklodt

    Senior Psychologist, Interdisciplinary Pain Center, University Hospital Erlangen
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Professor Candy McCabe, Ph.D., RGN

    Professor of Clinical Research and Practice, University of the West of England, & Dorothy House Hospice, UK
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Lance McCracken, Ph.D.

    Professor and Head of Division of Clinical Psychology, Uppsala University, Sweden
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Meghan McMurtry, Ph.D., C.Psych

    Associate Professor, University of Guelph and Psychologist, Pediatric Chronic Pain Program, McMaster Children's Hospital
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Winfried Meissner

    Consultant and Head of Pain Unit, Dept. of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Jena University Hospital, Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Ann Meulders

    Associate Professor Experimental Health Psychology, Maastricht University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Dr. Bart Morlion

    Director of the Leuven Centre for Algology, University of Leuven, Belgium
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Lorimer Moseley

    Director, IIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. André Mouraux, M.D., Ph.D.

    Professor, Institute of Neuroscience, UCLouvain
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Samer Narouze

    Chairman of the Center for Pain Medicine at Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, United States
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Asst. Prof. Dr. Nadja Nestler

    Deputy Director of the Institute of Nursing Science and Practice
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Professor Michael Nicholas, Ph.D.

    Director, Pain Education and Pain Management Programs, Sydney Medical School (Northern) and Royal North Shore Hospital
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rubén Nieto

    Lecturer, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Neil O'Connell

    Reader in Physiotherapy
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ms. Norma O'Keeffe

    Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner (Children's Pain/Rheumatology), CHI Temple Street, Dublin. Ireland
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Siobhain O'Mahony

    Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Francesca Oppitz

    Head of Department of Pediatric and Obstetric Anesthesiology, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital (WKZ), University of Utrecht
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Tonya M. Palermo, Ph.D.

    Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Mr. Joseph Parsons

    Ph.D. Candidate, University of Manchester
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Madelon Peters

    Professor of experimental health psychology, Maastricht University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Harm Peters, MD., MHPE

    Director Dieter Scheffner Center for Medical Education, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Professor Gisèle Pickering, MD, Ph.D., DPharm

    Head of Clinical Pharmacology Dept, Director of Clinical Research Center, University Hospital Clermont-Fd, France; Chair of Research Committee, EFIC
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Stephanie Poulton, MSc BSc (Hons) MCSP

    City & Hackney COVID Rehabilitation (CoRe) Service Lead, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Suzanne Pouwels

    Nurse consultant pain, University Medical Centre of Nijmegen, the Netherlands
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Michiel Punt

    Senior Researcher, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, The Netherlands
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Deepak Ravindran

    Clinical Lead Pain Medicine and Berkshire Longcovid Service
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Roland Reezigt

    PhD-Candidate, Lecturer and Manual Therapist, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Hanzehogeschool Groningen
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Jenny Rickardsson, Ph.D.

    Affiliated researcher, Karolinska Institute + Director of content production, 29k foundation
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Harbinder Sandhu

    Associate Professor, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Arnt Schellekens

    Prof in Psychiatry and Addiction, Radboud University Medical Centre, Scientific Director Nijmegen Institute for Scientist Practitioners in Addiction (NISPA)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Professor Pat Schofield

    University of Plymouth UK
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Whitney Scott

    Lecturer in Clinical Health Psychology, King's College London
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Manohar Sharma M.D. FRCA FFPMRCA

    Consultant in Pain Medicine and Neuromodulation
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. William S. Shaw, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Michael Skovdal Rathleff

    Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Benjamin Smith

    AHP/HCS Clinical Academic Lead, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton/University of Nottingham, UK
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Anne Söderlund, Ph.D.

    Professor in Physiotherapy, School of Health, Care and Welfare, Mälardalen University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Peter S. Staats, MD, MBA

    Chief Medical Officer, National Spine and Pain Centers; President, World Institute of Pain
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Associate Professor Tasha Stanton

    Associate Professor of Clinical Pain Neuroscience, University of South Australia
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Amelia Swift

    Reader, Health Professional Education, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Lissanthea Taylor

    Clinical Director, Brain Changer
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Mark van Tilburg, MSc.

    PhD student, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Nicola Torrance

    Senior Research Fellow, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Paramedic Practice, Robert Gordon University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Zina Trost, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Rianne L.M. van Boekel, Ph.D., R.N.

    Assistant professor Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Koen Van Boxem, MD FIPP EDPM Ph.D.

    Multidisciplinary Pain Center Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg Genk, Belgium
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Dr. Dominique Van de Velde

    Program Director Master of Science in Occupational Therapy, Ghent University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • R.A. van der Heijden, MD, Ph.D.

    Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Eveline Van Looveren, MSc

    Ph.D. Researcher, Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Jessica Van Oosterwijck

    Associate Professor, Ghent University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dimitri Van Ryckeghem

    Assistant professor in health Psychology, Maastricht University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Peter Van Wambeke, M.D.

    PRM specialist, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Koen Vanhonsebrouck

    Chairman, BePPA (Belgian Pediatric Pain Association)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Johan W.S. Vlaeyen

    Professor of Health Psychology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kevin Vowles

    Professor of Clinical Health Psychology, School of Psychology, Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Julia Wager, Ph.D.

    German Paediatric Pain Centre, Children's and Adolescents' Hospital, Datteln, Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Tim Watson

    Professor of Physiotherapy
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Rikard K. Wicksell

    Clinical researcher, Karolinska Institutet; Head of research, Pain Clinic, Capio St Göran Hospital
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Katie Witkiewitz, Ph.D.

    Regents' Professor of Psychology, Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions at the University of New Mexico
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Harriet Wittink

    Chair research group Lifestyle and Health, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Boris Zernikow, MD, Ph.D.

    Director of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Pain Therapy and Palliative Care at the Children's Hospital Datteln, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sigridur Zoëga, Ph.D., CNS, RN

    Associate Professor, Univeristy of Iceland; Clinical Nurse Specialist, Landspítali University Hospital
    BIOGRAPHY

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Faculty


  • Prof. Sam H Ahmedzai

    Prof. Sam H Ahmedzai

    Professor Emeritus of Palliative Medicine, The University of Sheffield

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Associate Professor Claire Ashton-James, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor Claire Ashton-James, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor of Pain Medicine, The University of Sydney

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Professor Nadine Attal, M.D., Ph.D.

    Professor Nadine Attal, M.D., Ph.D.

    Director of the Pain Center, Associate director of the U987 Inserm Research Unit, APHP and University Paris Saclay

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Edward Baker

    Edward Baker

    Lecturer, Applied Technology for Clinical Care, King's College London

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Professor Dr. Alexander Baldacchino, Ph.D., FRCPsych, FRCP

    Professor Dr. Alexander Baldacchino, Ph.D., FRCPsych, FRCP

    Professor in Addiction Medicine with the University of St Andrews and NHS Fife Consultant in Addiction Psychiatry

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Tim Beames

    Tim Beames

    Physiotherapist

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sivera Berben, Ph.D., RN, FEANS

    Sivera Berben, Ph.D., RN, FEANS

    Associate professor of Emergency and Critical Health Care, Knowledge Centre of Sustainable Healthcare, School of Health Studies, HAN University of Applied Sciences

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sónia F. Bernardes

    Sónia F. Bernardes

    Associate Professor with Habilitation in Psychology, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Indre Bileviciute-Ljungar

    Indre Bileviciute-Ljungar

    Senior Consultant and Specialist in Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine, Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic, St. Göran Hospital, Stockholm

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Catherine Blake

    Prof. Catherine Blake

    Dean and Head UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, Ireland

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Katja Boersma, Ph.D.

    Katja Boersma, Ph.D.

    Professor of Psychology, Örebro University

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Didier Bouhassira

    Dr. Didier Bouhassira

    Director of Research, Inserm, Ambroise Pare Hospital

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Chris Bridgeford

    Chris Bridgeford

    Chairman of Affa Sair Trust

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Emma Briggs

    Dr. Emma Briggs

    Senior Lecturer, King's College London

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Line Caes, Ph.D.

    Dr. Line Caes, Ph.D.

    Lecturer of Psychology, University of Stirling

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Paul Campbell, Ph.D.

    Dr. Paul Campbell, Ph.D.

    Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Medicine, Keele University

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Karin Cannons

    Karin Cannons

    Consultant Nurse Pain Management, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Máire-Bríd Casey

    Dr. Máire-Bríd Casey

    Senior Physiotherapist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Suzanne Chapman (MSc, BSc, RN, NMP)

    Suzanne Chapman (MSc, BSc, RN, NMP)

    Clinical Nurse Specialist, Pain Management. The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London. UK.

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. Flaminia Coluzzi, M.D.

    Prof. Flaminia Coluzzi, M.D.

    Associate Professor in Anaesthesia, Dept. Medical and Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prof. An De Groef, Ph.D.