The Science of Pain | Complexities and Therapies

Date: 

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, REB Auditorium, 190 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

TALKS @12 | Light refreshments served

Guest speaker:
Clifford Woolf, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Director, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center
Boston Children's Hospital

Pain is a protective mechanism that can indicate possible threats to our health. Without pain to serve as a warning signal, we would be at high risk of harming our body. Clifford Woolf will share his latest research on pain and explore how to measure it, model it and develop new therapies that may alleviate the opioid crisis.

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