Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC, United States
Dr. Andrea Nackley, PhD is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Translational Pain Medicine (CTPM) in the Department of Anesthesiology at Duke University. She is Director of the Translational Pain Research Laboratory, where her program marries pain neurobiology, behavioral pharmacology, and molecular genetics in mouse and man to better understand mechanisms of and identify treatments for chronic ‘primary’ overlapping pain conditions. Her lab was the first to demonstrate a critical role for peripheral adrenergic receptor beta-3 in the development of chronic pain and neuroinflammation, which remains a primary research focus. Dr. Nackley is an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Pain Research and serves on the Board of Directors for the United States Association for the Study of Pain (USASP). In recognition of her scholarly activity in the Pain field, she received the John C. Liebeskind Career Scholar Award from the American Pain Society.
Saturday, November 11, 2023
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM PT
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