Resilience and Impact on Behavior and Outcomes

Description

This webinar is being produced through a collaboration of the IASP's Pain and Placebo Special Interest Group and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA - in particular - the University of Maryland School of Nursing's Placebo Beyond Opinions Center. Both groups are aligned on advancing unbiased knowledge of placebo effects by promoting interdisciplinary investigation of the placebo phenomenon and nurturing placebo research.

THIS WEBINAR IS UNIQUE IN THAT IT IS BEING HOSTED (BOTH IN-PERSON AND VIRTUALLY) BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. AS SUCH, A LINK TO THE WEBINAR WILL NOT BE DISTRIBUTED UPON REGISTRATION - RATHER - A LINK TO THE WEBINAR WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO REGISTRANTS VIA EMAIL BOTH 24 HOURS AND 1 HOUR PRIOR TO THE WEBINAR. FOR ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL GREGORY CARBONETTI AT GREGORY.CARBONETTI@IASP-PAIN.ORG

The IASP defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage" to better articulate the biopsychosocial dimensions of this phenomenon. While our understanding of pain has greatly evolved over the past decades, there are still fundamental questions that need to be addressed, including its psychological components.

Over the past few years, the role of psychological positivity has garnered increased attention. One such psychological factor that has been a focal point of this research is resilience, or the ability to maintain positive emotional and physical functioning despite physical or psychological adversity (i.e., pain). Join us as we explore the role of resilience in pain management, and its effect on behavior and pain outcomes.

Participants include:
-- Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, University of Maryland School of Nursing, USA
-- Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, University of Maryland School of Nursing, USA (host)

Contributors

Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP

Barbara obtained her BSN from the University of Connecticut, USA, her MSN from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and her PhD from the University of Maryland, USA. She is currently a Professor, the Associated Dean of Research, and holds the Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. She has over 40 years of clinical experience as a nurse practitioner across all settings of care. Her research program is focused on optimizing function and physical activity among older adults, exploring resilience and genetics on function and physical activity, and testing dissemination and implementation of interventions in real world settings. She currently has several R01s with one focused on optimizing physical activity among hospitalized older adults living with dementia and the other testing the implementation of a Pain Management Clinical Practice Guideline in Nursing Homes. Her work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Health Care Quality, and Foundations such as the Helen and Leonard Stulman Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Resnick has over 300 published articles, numerous chapters in nursing and medical textbooks, and books on Restorative Care and Resilience. She is the current co-editor of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, past editor of Geriatric Nursing, and an associate editor and on editorial boards for numerous other journals. She has held leadership positions in multiple aging and interdisciplinary organizations including the American Geriatrics Society and the Gerontological Society of America and the American Medical Directors Association. She has been recognized for numerous national awards the most recent of which include the 2017 David H. Solomon Memorial Public Service Award, the 2018 Johns Hopkins Leader in Aging Award, the 2018 Loretta Ford Award, the 2019 Lawton Powell Award, the 2020 Dodd Award, and the 2022 University of Maryland Distinguished Professor Award and the Elkins Professorship and the 2023 Lamy Lecturer for the American Society for Consultant Pharmacists.
Luana Colloca, MD, PhD

Luana is a MPower Distinguished professor at University of Maryland, School of Nursing, Baltimore, Director of the TL1 program, Chair of the Pain and Placebo Special Interest Group for the International Association for Study of Pain (IASP) Society and the Treasurer for the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies of Placebo (SIPS). Colloca holds an MD, a PhD in Neuroscience and a master in Bioethics. She completed a post-doc training at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden and a senior research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Prof. Colloca received several prestigious awards such as the IASP Wall Patrick Award for basic research on pain mechanisms. Colloca leads an NIH-funded research portfolio on endogenous pain modulation including placebo/nocebo effects and other nonpharmacological interventions such as virtual reality. Colloca and her teamhave been published in top-ranked journals including JAMA, NEJM, Biological Psychiatry, Pain, and Lancet Neurology among others.