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  • 3rd 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.

    Virtual conference hosted by the University of Maryland, Baltimore U.S.A., 26-28 May 2021

     

    Organizers

    The Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (SIPS) is an international association of scholars who share the goal of understanding the placebo effect in medical treatment, psychotherapy, and complementary and alternative treatment.
    The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is a U.S. public university and home to nationally ranked programs in law, dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and social work.  Interdisciplinary and interprofessional team work is fundamental to its vision. 
    Expert faculty from the UMB Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy collaborated with SIPS to design an interdisciplinary, international scientific conference to advance the science of placebo research and mind-body mechanisms, and apply this knowledge to alcohol use and pain disorders. 


    SIPS 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award

    Ted J. Kaptchuk

    Professor of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard-wide Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter (PiPS) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts


    Plenary Speakers

    Charlotte Blease,
    PhD

    Harvard Medical School

    Howard Fields,
    MD, PhD

    University of California San Francisco

    Jefferson M. Fish,
    PhD

    St. John's University

    Jens Gaab
    Prof. Dr.

    University of Basel,
    Switzerland

    Wayne Jonas,
    MD

    Samueli Integrative Health Programs

    George F. Koob,
    Ph.D.

    National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

    David Rakel,
    MD

    University of New Mexico School of Medicine


    Keynote Speakers

    Leonard Calabrese,
    Professor of Medicine

    Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland

    Vinay Prasad,
    MD, MPH

    University of California San Francisco

    Plenary sessions speakers 2021

    Day 1 –
    Wednesday, May 26

    Jefferson Fish, PhD
    Placebo Therapy Memories:
    Influences on Writing the Book 50 Years Ago

    Wayne, B. Jonas, MD
    How Placebo Research Informs Healing

    Day 2 –
    Thursday, May 27

    George F. Koob, PhD
    Negative emotional state neuroadaptations in addiction and how they can become conditioned to cues and context

    Howard Fields, MD, PhD
    Prediction, Expectation, and Pain Control

    Charlotte Blease, PhD
    Sharing online clinical notes with patients: Implications for placebo and nocebo effects

     

    Day 3 –
    Friday, May 28

    David Rakel, MD
    The Clinician Effect: You are the Strongest Medicine to Reduce Pain and Suffering

    Jens Gaab, Prof. Dr.
    Why psychotherapy is an open-label placebo and open-label placebo is psychotherapy

     

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    • Welcome to the virtual SIPS Conference in Baltimore 2021

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    Organizer of the SIPS conference 2021

    A Tour of the University of Maryland, Baltimore


    Sponsors of the SIPS conference 2021

    Recent updates as of 08/17/2022