IVAPM at IVECCS 2025
September 4-8, 2025 | San Diego Convention Center
Save the date for IVECCS and join IVAPM for two full days of pain/analgesia lecture and our brand new abstract session! Do you have pain/analgesia research you want to share? If so, we want to hear it! Click here to learn more and submit your IVAPM Abstract.
IVAPM Sessions at IVECCS 2025

IVAPM is honored to be partnering with the Yaksh Research Lab at UC San Diego to bring cutting edge pain and analgesia information, including some of the latest pain/analgesia research. Our speakers include Dr. Tony Yaksh himself, a true pioneer in pain/analgesia research and an AMAZING speaker! Don’t miss these IVAPM sponsored sessions! And thanks to Dechra and Fronteirs for support of manuscript and abstract publications. We appreciate the support!
Thursday, September 4th
| Time | Speaker | Session Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:00 am | Tony Yaksh, PhD, Professor, UCSD | Part 1 Basic Pain Biology for the Newbie and Jaded Pain Expert |
| 9:15 - 10:15 am | Tony Yaksh, PhD, Professor, UCSD | Part 2 Basic Pain Biology for the Newbie and Jaded Pain Expert |
| 10:30 - 11:30 am | Kaue Malange, PhD, UCSD | Sodium channels and pain processing |
| 1:30 - 2:30 pm | Carlos Morado-Urbina, PhD, UCSD | The motor function of the sensory axon |
| 2:45 - 3:45 pm | Wendy Campana, PhD, UCSD | Injury to the nerve and its painful consequences |
| 4:00 - 5:00 pm | Sara Dochnal, PhD, UCSD | The puzzle of virally induced and sustained pain state |
Friday, September 5th
| Time | Speaker | Session Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:00 am | Ashley Wang, VMD; Lauren Kruger, DVM; and Jennifer Frolich, DVM | Development of slow-release formulations for regional anesthetic blocks in veterinary medicine |
| 9:15 - 10:15 am | Fadel Zaiden, PhD, UCSD | Pain is in the brain: The integrative function of higher order processing |
| 11:00 - 12:00 pm | Julia Lemes, PhD, UCSD | The role of environmental and contextual stressors in promoting the pain phenotype |
| 1:30 - 2:30 pm | Tony Yaksh, PhD, Professor, UCSD | Role of Innate and adaptive immunity in the pain state. |
| 2:45 - 3:45 pm | Tamara Grubb, DVM, PhD, CvMA, CVPP, DACVA, IVAPM President | Local blocks |
| 4:00 - 5:00 pm | Tamara Grubb, DVM, PhD, CvMA, CVPP, DACVA, IVAPM President | Pain assessment |
Saturday, September 6th
| Time | Session Title |
|---|---|
| 1:30 - 5:15 pm | IVAPM Abstract Session, Sponsored by Fronteirs |
Agenda subject to change.
