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.