Scientific Preliminary Program

Main Topics

  • Acute pain
  • Chronic pain
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Interventional management of pain
  • Neuropathic pain
  • Pain and immunology
  • Pain in palliative care
  • Pharmacological management of pain
  • Rheumatologic pain
  • Side effects of pain management
  • Ultrasound support in interventional pain management

Auditorium

June 13, 2024:

17:00-20:30 – Opening Ceremony

Chairperson: Anthony Dickenson, Giustino Varrassi

17:00-17:30 – Welcome speeches

17:30-18:15  – Plenary lectures

  Chairperson: Giustino Varrassi

  John J Bonica Lecture – Narinder Rawal

18:15-19:00 – Awards to the 3 best abstracts on Interventional Pain Management (Ischia Prize)

19:00-20:30 – Visit to the Exhibition Area

June 14, 2024:

9:00-11:00Sponsored session

9:00-11:00The Many Faces of Pain

Chairperson: Giustino Varrassi

9:00-9:10 – Understanding the different forms of pain – Giustino Varrassi

9:10-9:25 – Emergency pain best practices: treatment in critical moments – Imad Khojah

9:25-9:40 – Insights into 1-day surgery pain management – Magdalena Kocot-Kępska

9:40-9:55 – Navigating the labyrinth of low back pain: What’s new? – Magdi Hanna

9:55-10:10 – Managing patient cases through practical protocols – Antonio Montero

10:10-10:25 – Unravelling the real faces of pain: new findings from Real World Evidences – Passakorn Sawaddiruk (Online presentation)

10:25-11:00 – Q/A

11:00-12:45The changing landscape of migraine

Chairpersons: Caterina Pace, Cristina Tassorelli

11:00-11:30 – Migraine prevention – Gianluca Coppola

11:30-12:00 – Acute attack treatment – Pierangelo Geppetti

12:00-12:30 – Refractory migraine – Simona Sacco

12:30-12:45 – Q/A

12:45-14:00 – Lunch

14:00-15:00Sponsored session

14:00-15:00 – Effective management of headache and migraine

Chairpersons: Giustino Varrassi

14:00-14:20 – What anyone should know about headache and migraine – Pierangelo Geppetti

14:20-14:40 – Role of ibuprofen treatment for headache and migraine – Simona Sacco

14:40-15:00 – Q/A

15:00-18:00 – Chronic Pain and Quality of Life

15:00-16:30 – Fibromyalgia and quality of life

Chairpersons: Piercarlo Sarzi Puttini

15:00-15:20 – Clinical aspects of fibromyalgia – Stefano Coaccioli

15:20-15:40 – Use of PEA and LAC in fibromyalgia syndrome – Diego Fornasari

15:40-16:00 – Cannabinoids in the management of fibromyalgia – Piercarlo Sarzi Puttini

16:00-16:20 – Multidisciplinary approach to fibromyalgia patients – Valeria Giorgi

16:20-16:30 – Q/A

16:30-18:00 – Chronic pain and sexual life

Chairpersons: Caterina Aurilio

17:00-17:20 – Pain in sexual life – Andrea Sansone

17:20-17:40 – Sexual life in pain patients – Tommaso Jannini

17:40-18:00 – Q/A

June 15, 2024:

08:00-13:00 – Scientific sessions

08:00-09:30 – Education in Pain Medicine

Chairpersons: Eli Alon, Enrico Polati

08:00-08:20 – The IASP-SouthEast Asian Camp – Say Yang Ong

08:20-08:40 – The LatAm models – Marco Narvaez

08:40-09:00 – The North American models – Christofer Gharibo

09:00-09:20 – The European models – Victor Mayoral

09:20-09:30 – Q/A

09:30-10:30 – Effects of neuromodulation

Chairpersons: Gianni Colini Baldeschi, Filomena Puntillo

09:30-09:50 – Analgesic mechanisms of central neuromodulation – Mariateresa Giglio

09:50-10:10 – Predictive efficacy parameters of SCS in vascular diseases and diabetic neuropathy – Ezio Amorizzo

10:10-10:30 – Closed loop SCS – Pasquale De Negri

10:30-10:45 – Q/A

10:30-11:30 – Future in Pain Medicine

Chairpersons: Athina Vadalouca, Ioanna Siafaka

10:30-10:50 – Chronic pain management in the era of artificial intelligence – Fabian Piedimonte

10:50-11:10 – The value of medical apps and chatGPT for pain management – Thomas Tölle

11:10-11:30 – Q/A

Room Foscolo

June 14, 2024:

11:00-13:00 – “Meet-the-Expert”

Chairperson: Narinder Rawal

Immunology and pain – Stefano Coaccioli

Residual pain in rheumatology – Piercarlo Sarzi Puttini

Stem cells as an option in the treatment of low back pain – Stefano Meloncelli

Direct optic view for annular tear repair using marrow derived stem cells – Robert Rapcan

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-18:00 – “Meet-the-Expert”

Chairpersons: Marco Mercieri, Felice Occhigrossi

Brain and Pain – Panagiotis Zis

Diagnostic tools in nociplastic pain patients – Victor Mayoral

Painful restless legs syndrome – Samson Khachatryan

Inclusiveness and diversity in pain management – Eleni Moka

Management of chronic pelvic pain – Martina Rekatsina

The dilemma of cannabinoids between enthusiasm and frustration – Thomas Tölle

June 15, 2024:

08:30-12:00 – “Meet-the-Expert”

Chairperson: Filomena Puntillo

Emotional screening in opioid use disorders – Alena Javurkova

Virtual reality and pain management – Jaroslava Raudenska

Pain in the older adults: Lessons and challenges – Say Yang Ong

Ultrasound in pain medicine is not only science but also art – Tolga Ergonenc

Ultrasound support in musculoskeletal pain – Abdallah Allam

Physiatric support in musculoskeletal pain – Giacomo Farì

  1. Alon, Eli
  2. Amorizzo, Ezio
  3. Ashina, Messoud
  4. Aurilio, Caterina
  5. Coaccioli, Stefano
  6. Colini Baldeschi, Gianni
  7. Coppola, Gianluca
  8. De Negri, Pasquale
  9. Dickenson, Anthony
  10. Ergönenç, Tolga
  11. Farì, Giacomo
  12. Finco, Gabriele
  13. Fornasari, Diego
  14. Geppetti, Pierangelo
  15. Gharibo, Christopher
  16. Giglio, Mariateresa
  17. Giorgi, Valeria
  18. Hanna, Magdi
  19. Khojah, Imad
  20. Jannini, Emmanuele A.
  21. Jannini, Tommaso
  22. Javůrkova, Alena
  23. Khachatryan, Samson
  24. Kocot-Kępska, Magdalena
  25. Mayoral Rojals, Victor
  26. Meloncelli, Stefano
  27. Mercieri, Marco
  28. Moka, Eleni
  29. Montero Matamala, Antonio
  30. Narvaez Tamayo, Marco
  31. Occhigrossi, Felice
  32. Ong, Say Yang
  33. Pace, Caterina
  34. Paladini, Antonella
  35. Piedimonte, Fabian
  36. Polati, Enrico
  37. Puntillo, Filomena
  38. Rapcan, Robert
  39. Raudenska, Jaroslava
  40. Rawal, Narinder
  41. Rekatsina, Martina
  42. Rinaldi, Riccardo
  43. Sacco, Simona
  44. Sansone, Andrea
  45. Sarzi Puttini, Piercarlo
  46. Scarpignato, Carmelo
  47. Tangwiwat, Suwimon
  48. Tassorelli, Cristina
  49. Tölle, Thomas
  50. Vadalouca, Athina
  51. Varrassi, Giustino
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