Events

Welcome Remarks and Official Opening of the Conference

Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS
President, University of Maryland Baltimore

Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA
Executive Vice President and Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Natalie D. Eddington, PhD, FAAPS, FCP
Dean, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

Jane M. Kirschling, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean, University of Maryland School of Nursing

John Kelley, PhD
President, Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (SIPS)

Placebo Therapy Memories: Influences on Writing the Book 50 Years Ago

Presenter:  Jefferson M. Fish, PhD
Professor Emeritus, St. John's University, New York, USA

Introduction by Irving Kirsch, PhD
Associate Director, Program in Placebo Studies, Harvard Medical School, Professor Emeritus of Psychology: University of Connecticut, USA and University of Hull, UK

How Placebo Research Informs Healing

Presenter: Wayne B. Jonas, MD
Executive Director, Samueli Integrative Health Programs, USA

Introduction by Patricia D. Franklin, PhD, RN
Adjunct Faculty, University of Maryland School of Nursing, USA 

Prediction, Expectation, and Pain Control

Presenter:  Howard Fields, MD, PhD 
Professor Emeritus, Neurology and Physiology, University of California San Francisco, USA

Introduction by Eric Weintraub, MD 
Associate Professor and Director, Division of Addiction Research and Treatment, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA 

COVID-19- society, science and health care in year two of the pandemic

Keynote Speaker: Leonard Calabrese, DO
Professor of Medicine, Director of the RJ Fasenmyer Centre for Clinical Immunology, Vice Chair, Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Disease, Co-director of the Centre for Vasculitis Care and Research, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, USA

Panelists:

Claire M. Fraser, PhD
Professor and Director, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA 

Arthur Barsky, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA

Manfred Schedlowski, PhD
Professor, Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Immunobiology, University Clinic Essen, Germany

Moderator: Andrew L. Geers, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, USA 

Sharing online clinical notes with patients: Implications for placebo and nocebo effects

Presenter:  Charlotte Blease, PhD
Keane OpenNotes Scholar, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, USA

Introduction by Stephen Davis, MBBS, FRCP, FACE, MACP
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine University of Maryland School of Medicine; Director, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research; Vice President of Clinical Translational Science, University of Maryland Baltimore, USA 

What is Good Evidence? The Placebo Effect and Research Quality

Keynote Speaker: Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco USA

Panelists:

David Goldman, MD, PhD 
Clinical Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) USA

Wayne Jonas, MD 
Executive Director, Samueli Integrated Health Programs USA

Daniel Mullins, PhD
Director, PATIENTS Program, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy USA

Moderator: Luana Colloca, MD, PhD  
Associate Professor, UMSON; Director, CTSA TL1 Pre- and Postdoctoral Training Program University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA

Negative emotional state neuroadaptations in addiction and how they can become conditioned to cues and context

Presenter: George Koob, Ph.D.
Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), USA

Introduction by Raye Z. Litten, PhD 
Acting Director, Division of Medications development (DMD) and the Division of Treatment and Recovery Research (DTRR), NIAAA, USA 

Special Lifetime Achievement Award Plenary Lecture: Placebos and Honesty

Speaker: Ted Kaptchuk
Professor of medicine, Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Harvard-wide Program in Placebo Studies, and the Therapeutic Encounter (PiPS), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 

Why psychotherapy is an open-label placebo and open-label placebo is psychotherapy

Presenter: Jens Gaab, PhD
Full Professor, University of Basel, Switzerland

Introduction by Jason Noel, PharmD, BCPP
Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (UMSOP), Baltimore, USA 

The Clinician Effect: You are the Strongest Medicine to Reduce Pain and Suffering

Presenter:  David Rakel, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, USA

Introduction by Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH
Associate professor of health care policy at the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, USA 

Closing Session: Award presentations and celebration