Date: Monday, April 28th, 3:00pm to 4:00pm, Eastern (US) Time
This webinar is being produced through a collaboration of the IASP’s Pain and Placebo Special Interest Group and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA – in particular – the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s Placebo Beyond Opinions Organized Research Center. Both groups are aligned on advancing unbiased knowledge of placebo effects by promoting interdisciplinary investigation of the placebo phenomenon and nurturing placebo research.
**Please note that this webinar is unique in that it is being hosted (both in-personal and virtually) by the University of Maryland. For your convenience (after registering), a Zoom link to attend the webinar will be distributed both 24 hours and 1 hour prior to its start time.
Join us for the Placebo Beyond Opinions Organized Research Center guest lecture hybrid series. This lecture on “Treatment Research in Mental Disorders: Policies Surrounding Clinical Trials and Placebo Responses” is presented by Matthew Rudorfer, MD, from the National Institute of Mental Health.
— Matthew Rudorfer, MD, National Institute of Mental Health, Maryland, USA
— Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, University of Maryland School of Nursing, USA (host)
About the Presenter
Matthew Rudorfer, MD, is a Psychiatry Specialist in Rockville, MD and has over 44 years of experience in the medical field. He graduated from State University of New York, College of Medicine and now runs a small practice focusing on anxiety and mood disorders, utilizing individualized medication and psychotherapy approaches. He is also the associate director of treatment research at the National Institute of Mental Health, where he runs the adult psychopharmacology, somatic, and integrated treatment research program. This program supports research involving psychotropic medications (singly or in combination) and somatic treatments of demonstrated efficacy, as well as nonpharmacologic interventions such as bright light, physical exercise, sleep and circadian rhythm manipulations, and complementary/integrative techniques for which efficacy has been demonstrated. He has over 80 publications in renowned journals such as the American Journal of Psychiatry, Life Sciences, and Psychopharmaoclogy.
About the Host
Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, is an NIH-funded physician-scientist who conducted ground-breaking studies that have advanced scientific understanding of the psychoneurobiological bases of endogenous systems for pain modulation in humans including the discovery that the vasopressin system is involved in the enhancement of placebo effects with a dimorphic effect. Currently, her team conducts basic and translational research on genomics of orofacial chronic pain, brain mechanisms of expectancy – and observationally-induced hypoalgesia – and immersive virtual reality. Her research has been published in top-ranked international journals including Biological Psychiatry, Pain, Nature Neuroscience, JAMA, Lancet Neurology, Science and NEJM. The impact of her innovative work is clear from her outstanding publications, citation rate, numerous invited lectures worldwide and media featuring by The National Geographic, The New Scientist, Washington Post, Boston Globe, The New Yorker, Nature, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, News and World Reports.