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  • IMMPACT-IX
  • June 13-14, 2008
  • Ritz Carlton Pentagon City
  • Arlington, Virginia

  • Co-chairs:
  • Dennis C. Turk, PhD (University of Washington)
  • Robert H. Dworkin, PhD (University of Rochester)
  • Academia Participants
  • Ralf Baron, Dr med (University of Kiel)
  • Paul J. Desjardins, DMD, PhD (Wyeth)
  • John T. Farrar, MD (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Marc Gastonguay, PhD (Metrum Research Group)
  • Ian Gilron, MD (Queen's University)
  • Eija A. Kalso, MD, PhD (Helsinki University, Finland)
  • Nathaniel P. Katz, MD (Tufts University Medical School)
  • Mitchell B. Max, MD (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Michael P. McDermott, PhD (University of Rochester)
  • Henry J. McQuay, MD (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
  • Cyrus Mehta, PhD (Cytel)
  • Sarah Peirce-Sandner (University of Rochester)
  • Karin L. Petersen, MD (University of California San Francisco)
  • Srinivasa N. Raja, MD (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Bernard M. Ravina, MD (University of Rochester)
  • Andrew S. Rice, MD (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
  • Michael C. Rowbotham, MD (University of California San Francisco)
  • Cristina Sampaio, MD, PhD (Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Portugal)
  • Stephen Senn, PhD (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
  • Soren Sindrup, MD (Odense University Hospital, Denmark)
  • Charles Taylor, PhD (CP Taylor Consulting)
  • Rolf-Detlef Treede, Dr med (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
  • Mark S. Wallace, MD (University of California San Diego)
  • Government Participants
  • Ann Costello, DMD, PhD (US Food and Drug Administration)
  • Raymond Dionne, DDS, PhD (National Institute of Health)
  • Peter R. Gilbert, Sc M (National Institute of Health)
  • Sharon Hertz, MD (US Food and Drug Administration)
  • Robert D. Kerns, PhD (Veterans Administration and Yale University)
  • Bob A. Rappaport, MD (US Food and Drug Administration)
  • Patient Representative
  • Penny Cowan (American Chronic Pain Association)
  • Industry Participants
  • Rozalina Dimitrova, MD, MPH (Allergan, Inc.)
  • David J. Hewitt, MD (Merck & Company)
  • Smriti Iyengar, PhD (Eli Lilly & Company)
  • Gary W. Jay, MD (Schwarz Biosciences)
  • Richard L. Leff, MD (AstraZeneca)
  • Michael S. Leong, MD (Xenoport, Inc.)
  • Christine Rauschkolb, MD, PhD (Johnson & Johnson)
  • Joseph W. Stauffer, DO (Alpharma)
  • Ilona Steigerwald, MD (Grunenthal GmbH)
  • Jonathan Stewart, MB (GlaxoSmithKline)
  • Jeffrey Tobias, MD (NeurogesX, Inc.)
  • Richard E. White, PhD (Endo Pharmaceuticals)