Invited Speakers
Lorenzo Fabrizi
University College London (UCL), UK
Lorenzo Fabrizi is Professor of Developmental System Neuroscience at UCL and leads research on somatosensory systems and pain in infants using advanced brain imaging like EEG, NIRS and fMRI. His work informs pain assessment guidelines and he contributes to pediatric pain classification and definition of EEG reliability requirements in the pediatric population.
Huda Abu-Saad Huijer
University of Balamand, Lebanon
Dr. Abu-Saad Huijer research has focused on pain management and palliative care in children and adults. She has supervised a large number of PhD dissertations and has been lead investigator on a large number of funded projects in the Netherlands and in Lebanon. She has published more than 300 articles and two books. She has served on the Lancet Commission on Global Access to Pain Control and Palliative Care, as President of the Lebanese Society for the Study of Pain and Vice-President of the National Committee on Pain Relief and Palliative Care. In recognition of her work, Dr. Abu-Saad Huijer was elected International Fellow to the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame, and awarded the IASP Honorary membership.
Steve Kamper
University of Sydney, Australia
Steve Kamper is Professor of Allied Health at University of Sydney. He has published over 200 articles, cited more than >15,000 times and is ranked in the top 10 researchers globally in musculoskeletal pain, back pain and Physiotherapy. His research interests include pain in children and adolescents and evidence-based practice
Cheryl Stucky
Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Cheryl Stucky is the Marvin Wagner Endowed Chair and Director of the Pain Division at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is a global leader in peripheral mechanisms that drive pain in injury and disease including chemotherapy neuropathy, traumatic neuropathy, sickle cell disease and Fabry disease. She loves training students and postdocs to write grants, papers and give talks and to be confident in becoming our next generation of scientists.
