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UMB will host the third International Conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (SIPS), “Harnessing Placebo Mechanisms for Optimal Pain Management and Treatment of Alcohol and Other Drug Use Disorders," virtually, May 26-28. The cost to attend is $15 for UMB affiliated faculty, staff, and students.
Expert faculty from UMB's Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy have collaborated with SIPS to design an interdisciplinary, international scientific conference to advance the science of placebo research and mind-body mechanisms and to apply this knowledge to alcohol use and pain disorders.
The conference will provide a collaborative platform to present and share innovative research findings and theoretical ideas on placebo research to an international audience of researchers; promote training and education of trainees, academic junior researchers, health care professionals, agencies, stakeholders, and the public; and advocate for the participation of minorities and women while expanding U.S. research in the global network of placebo research.
The program will include:
- Seven plenary sessions
- Three special sessions on COVID-19, placebo methodology, and virtual reality
- Over 20 workshops
- Peer-reviewed short oral presentations
- Peer-reviewed poster sessions
- Networking forums
Continuing education (CE) credit will be available for physicians, nurses, and pharmacists.
Funding available, please contact the 2021 SIPS Planning Committee if you need financial assistance in order to participate.
Presentations to include Plenary lecture 7: The Clinician Effect: You are the Strongest Medicine to Reduce Pain and Suffering, David Rakel, MD, professor and chair, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, with an introduction by Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, associate professor of health care policy at the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.
Rakel was the founder and director of the University of Wisconsin Integrative Medicine Program, where he was awarded tenure in the department of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2010. Rakel is co-editor of the "Textbook of Family Medicine" (8th and 9th eds), editor of "Integrative Medicine" (1-5 eds), co-editor of "Conn’s Current Therapy," and editor-in-chief of "Primary Care Practice Update." He is author of a book on the power of the therapeutic relationship titled "The Compassionate Connection" (WW. Norton Publishing). He has received National Institutes of Health funding to study the "clinician effect" and to incorporate healing modalities into medical school curricula. He has been awarded a number of teaching awards, the Leonard Tow Faculty compassion award, and has been elected to the Gold Humanism medical society. Rakel is now the professor and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico.