October 19-20, 2023 | San Diego, CA

Identifying and Advancing Novel Pain Drugs Through Clinical Development and Commercialization

2018 Speaking Faculty

The Speaking Faculty for the 2019 event has not yet been announced. Please check back in the coming days or join our mailing list for regular updates.

 

Conference Chair

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William Schmidt, Ph.D.

President
Northstar Consulting

  

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Speaking Faculty

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  • Michael Palfreyman, Ph.D., DSc.

  • Chief Scientific Officer
  • Amorsa Therapeutics

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  • Nathaniel Katz, MD, MS

  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Analgesic Solutions

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  • Philippe Diaz, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor: Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer
  • University of Montana; DermaXon

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  • Neil Singla, MD

  • Chief Scientific Officer
  • Lotus Clinical Research

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  • David Yeomans, Ph.D.

  • Director of Pain Research, Professor of Anesthesia
  • Stanford University School of Medicine

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  • Robert H. Dworkin, Ph.D.

  • Prof. of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Neurology, & Psychiatry, Dir., Anesthesiology Research Ctr.
  • Univ. of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry

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  • Simon Westbrook, Ph.D.

  • CEO and Founder
  • Levicept

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  • Mike Royal, MD

  • Chief Medical Officer
  • Concentric Analgesics

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  • Tony Yaksh, Ph.D.

  • Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology
  • University of California, San Diego

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  • Robert Cowan, MD, FAAN

  • Clinical Professor, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
  • Stanford University School of Medicine

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  • Alex Bekker, MD, Ph.D.

  • Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
  • Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

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  • Tad Seifert, MD

  • Director, Sport Neurology Program; Head
  • Norton Healthcare; NCAA Headache Task Force

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  • Srdjan Nedeljkovic, MD

  • Associate Professor, Anesthesia and Pain Management
  • Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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  • Shafaq Sikandar, Ph.D.

  • Research Fellow
  • University College London

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  • Joseph Foss, MD

  • Founder
  • Neurotherapia

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  • Sean Mackey, MD, Ph.D.

  • Chief, Division of Pain Medicine, Director, Stanford Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab
  • Stanford University School of Medicine

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  • John Mulcahy, Ph.D.

  • Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer
  • SiteOne Therapeutics

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  • Xinmin Simon Xie, MD, Ph.D.

  • Founder and Chief Executive Officer
  • AlfaSci Research Labs

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