Invited Speakers

Richard Gracely, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina):

Rick was trained in experimental psychology at Brown University, and has had a long and distinguished career in pain science as an NIH intramural researcher and as a professor at U. Michigan and UNC.  His central interest has been the psychophysical measurement of pain.  His interests include functional brain imaging, effects of analgesics, and fibromyalgia.  His contributions to the understanding of dyspnea are not new: a few of us were fortunate to attend a lecture he gave on pain perception at an NIH workshop on respiratory sensation in 1984!

Irene Tracey, D.Phil. (Oxford University):

Irene was trained at Oxford in the use of magnetic resonance to study muscle and brain biochemistry, and went on to develop an interest in functional magnetic resonance imaging while at the MGH NMR Center in Boston.  From there she became interested in pain, and has done studies on both somatic and visceral pain.  Through a graduate student, she has recently become interested in dyspnea and its relation to pain.

Bradley Undem, Ph.D. (John Hopkins University):

Brad was trained in pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin and has been at Hopkins since then.  Starting with an interest in asthma immunology, he developed an interest in immune-nerve interactions.  His more recent work has combined novel and traditional approaches to study the classification and physiology of unmylenated pulmonary afferents.

Donald McCrimmon, Ph.D. (North West University)

Don trained in physiology at the University of Wisconsin and went on to postdoc in one of the leading labs in brainstem neurophysiology.  He has published several review articles on respiratory control, as well as original research on respiratory rhythm generation and brainstem neurochemistry and even a neural connection between pain and breathing.