Topics

• Welcome and Opening Remarks
• NIH and Fibromyalgia Funding: Today and Tomorrow
• Treatment of Cervical Myelopathy in Patients
• Dopamine Depletion as Cause of FM

Speakers

• Robert Bennett, MD, PhD
• Stephen Katz, MD, PhD
• Dan S. Heffez, MD
• Patrick Wood, MD

Topics

• Dopamine Depletion as Cause of FM— Questions
• Quantitative Measurements of Neuropathic Pain And Symptoms.
• FMRI Studies of Pressure Pain in Fibromyalgia

Speakers

• Patrick Wood, MD
• Misha-Miroslav Backonja, MD
• Richard Gracely, PhD

Topics

• Fibromyalgia is an Autonomic Nervous Systems Disease

Speakers

• Manuel Martinez-Lavin, MD

Topics

• Stress-Sensitive Mass Cells Near Pain- Sensitive Neurons

Speakers

• Alice Larson, PhD

Topics

• Balance Perturbations in Fibromyalgia Patients Compared to Healthy Controls
• Presenters - Round Table Discussion

Speakers

• Kim Dupree Jones, RN, FNP, PhD

Topics

• Welcome and Opening Remarks
• Preliminary Data From Fibromyalgia/Chiari Study
• Why Has It Taken So Long

Topics

• Intermittent Cervical Cord Compression and Fibromyalgia : A Common Co-morbidity With Diagnostic and Treatment Implications

Speakers

• Andrew Holman, MD

Topics

• Clinical Presentation of Chiari Malformation I
• Clinical Manifestations of Mesenchymal Hyperplasia

Speakers

• Roger Kula, MD
• Timothy Weibe, MD

Topics

• Gene Therapy for Pain

Speakers

• Luc Dupont Jasmin, MD, PhD

Topics

• The Role of Endogenous Pain Inhibitory Mechanism Deficits in Fibromyalgia
• Neurochemical Abnormalities in the Fibromyalgia Syndrome

Speakers

• Serge Marchand, PhD
• Jon Russell, MD, PhD