IASP PRF Seminar – Quantitative Sensory Testing: Achievements, Limitations and Future Opportunities

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The IASP Pain Research Forum will host a seminar with Michele Curatolo, MD, PhD, University of Washington, US. A Q&A session moderated by Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Dr. Med., PhD, Aalborg University, Denmark, will follow the presentation.

Here is an abstract from the presenter:

This seminar will highlight the role of quantitative sensory testing (QST) in pain research and clinical practice, with a focus on:

Assessment of somatosensory function relevant to pain
Potential to serve as prognostic biomarkers (predicting the course of pain and disability)
Potential to serve as predictive biomarkers (predicting the efficacy of interventions)
QST phenotypes linked to mechanisms of human pain

The seminar will highlight the status of current QST research, stressing:

What has been achieved
What cannot be achieved
Future opportunities offered by QST in mechanistic studies of human pain
Challenges and opportunities for use of QST in clinical practice.

Contributors

Michele Curatolo, MD, PhD

Michele Curatolo, MD, PhD, is professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, and Endowed Professor for Medical Education and Research at the University of Washington, Seattle. He received his MD at the University of Messina, Italy, completed his PhD at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, where he was later awarded an honorary doctorate, and has been the chief of the Division of Pain Therapy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His research focuses on measuring nociceptive processes to understand mechanisms of human pain and predict outcomes.
Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Dr. Med., PhD

Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Dr. Med., PhD, is founder and director, Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction (SMI) and professor, Department of Health Science and Technology, School of Medicine, Aalborg University, Denmark. Dr. Arendt-Nielsen has over 30 years of experience in the field of experimental and clinical pain research with a focus on quantitative predictive and diagnostic pain biomarkers. His publication record includes 1,016 peer-reviewed journal papers (cited 29,963 times; average citations per item, 29.78; H-index 80).

Conflicts of Interest:
Dr. Arendt-Nielsen was the president of IASP from 2018 to 2020, and is now the immediate past president.