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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

 

  • Welcome to the virtual SIPS Conference in Baltimore 2021

  • Welcome to the virtual SIPS Conference in Baltimore 2021

  • Welcome to the virtual SIPS Conference in Baltimore 2021

  • Welcome to the virtual SIPS Conference in Baltimore 2021

  • Welcome to the virtual SIPS Conference in Baltimore 2021

  • Welcome to the virtual SIPS Conference in Baltimore 2021

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