The Placebo Beyond Opinions Center hosts a lecture examining the role of placebo research and its impact on health outcomes.
Language matters. That was the premise of a lecture on “Translating the Science of Placebo into Medical Practice” by Wayne Jonas, MD, president of the Healing Works Foundation and a widely published investigator, practicing family physician, and professor of medicine at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.
Jonas presented during the first 2023-24 lecture in December of the Placebo Beyond Opinions (PBO) Center at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, addressing an in-person audience of faculty, staff, students, and researchers — and an international audience that tuned in virtually.
The event served as the launch of “Placebo Effects: Through the Lens of Translational Research,” a newly released book edited by Luana Colloca, Jason Noel, Patricia D. Franklin, and Chamindi Seneviratne, all members of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) community.
Colloca, MD, PhD, MS, professor and an inaugural UMB-University of Maryland, College Park MPower Professor, is director of the PBO Center, which aims to advance unbiased knowledge on placebo effects through interdisciplinary investigation and further development of a robust placebo-focused research program.