CONGRESS PROGRAM

09:00 CET

Congress Opening & Welcome

Jacob Ablin, Israel & Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini, Italy | Congress Chairs

09:10 CET

Session 1: Where are we going?

09:10-09:30

Fibromyalgia: Year in review

Valeria Giorgi

L. Sacco University Hospital, Italy

09:30-09:50

Chronic Pain: Year in review

Valerie Aloush

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

09:50-10:10

Pain as a Symptom vs. Pain as a Syndrome

Eva Kosek

Karolinska Institute, Sweden

10:10 CET

Session 2: Open Controversies in Fibromyalgia

10:10-10:30

Time to Stop the Fibromyalgia Criteria Wars

Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini

L. Sacco University Hospital, Italy

10:30-10:50

Multicomponent Treatment Strategies in Fibromyalgia

Jacob Ablin

Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

10:50-11:10

Why do Drugs Work so Poorly in Fibromyalgia Patients?

Daniel Clauw

University of Michigan, USA

11:10-11:30

Fibromyalgia as a Disease of Misconnection

Serge Perrot

Cochin University Hospital, France

11:30 CET

Oral Presentations of Selected Abstracts I

12:20 CET

Lunch Break

12:40 CET

LIVE Panel Discussion/Q&A

13:10 CET

Session 3: How to Address the Concomitances?

13:10-13:30

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini

L. Sacco University Hospital, Italy

13:30-13:50

Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

Maura Corsetti

Gastroenterology Unit, Nottingham Biomedical and Research Center, University of Nottingham, UK

13:50-14:10

Small-Fibre Neuropathy and Neuropathic Pain: Differential Diagnosis and Therapeutic Approach

Andrea Truini

Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

14:10 CET

Session 4: Pathogenetic Mechanisms

14:10-14:30

How Stress Becomes Neuropathic Pain

Manuel Martinez-Lavin

National Institute of Cardiology, Mexico

14:30-14:50

Classical Examples of the Concept of the ASIA Syndrome; CPI, SBI and vaccines

Yehuda Shoenfeld

Sheba Medical Center, Israel

14:50-15:10

Central Sensitization: Neurophysiological Mechanisms

Emanuel van den Broeke

Institute of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, UC Louvain, Belgium

15:10 CET

Session 5: Rheumatoid Arthritis and Fibromyalgia

15:10-15:30

Mechanisms of Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Ernest Choy

Section of Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

15:30-15:50

Pain Chronification: What should a non-pain medicine specialist know?

Bart Morlion

Leuven Centre for Algology & Pain Management, University Hospitals of Leuven, Belgium

15:50-16:10

Biologic and Small Molecules: Do they work on pain?

Peter Taylor

University of Oxford, UK

16:10 CET

LIVE Panel Discussion/Q&A

16:45 CET

End of Day One

09:00 CET

Congress Welcome - Day 2

Jacob Ablin, Israel & Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini, Italy I Congress Chairs

09:10 CET

Session 6: Diagnostic Tools

09:10-09:30

Widespread pain, fatigue, depression and sicca symptoms are overlapping features in primary Sjögren’s syndrome and fibromyalgia: differences and similarities of clinical and pathogenetic aspects

Claudio Vitali

'Mater Domini' Humanitas Hospital, Italy

09:30-09:50

Salivary Biomarkers in FMS

Laura Bazzichi

Rheumatology Unit, AOU Pisana, Pisa, Italy

09:50-10:10

Neuroimaging of fibromyalgia: where do we stand?

Diana Torta

Health Psychology Research group, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium

10:10 CET

Session 7: Opioids and Cannabinoids

10:10-10:30

Why opioids should not be used to treat Fibromyalgia

Mary-Ann Fitzcharles

McGill University, Canada

10:30-10:50

Why and to what extent do Cannabinoids work in Fibromyalgia Patients?

Silviu Brill

Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel

10:50-11:10

Effect of Different Drugs: Does it make sense in Fibromyalgia?

Winfried Häuser

Klinikum Saarbrücken, Germany

11:10 CET

Session 8: Nonpharmacological Interventions

11:10-11:30

Therapeutic validity of exercise interventions in the management of Fibromyalgia

Roberto Casale

Opusmedica, PC&R Patient, Care & Research Network, Italy

11:30-11:50

Neurofeedback

Ayelet Or Borichev

Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

11:50-12:10

Presentation 3

12:10 CET

Oral Presentations of Selected Abstracts II

13:00 CET

Lunch Break

13:15 CET

LIVE Panel Discussion/Q&A

13:45 CET

Session 9: Long-Term Follow Up of Fibromyalgia Syndrome - What happens after the diagnosis?

13:45-14:05

The role of registries in the analysis of FM data

Marco Di Carlo

Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy

14:05-14:25

What is relevant to assess clinical improvement?

Jose A. P. Da Silva

Department of Rheumatology, University of Coimbra, Portugal

14:25-14:45

Can patients achieve a persistent remission?

Eduardo S. Paiva

Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil

14:45 CET

Session 10: What’s Behind Fibromyalgia: The role of patients' associations

14:45-14:55

The Institutional Role of ENFA

Gunilla Goran

President ENFA, Sweden

14:55-15:05

The mission of the Scientific Committee of ENFA

Karin Maria Øien Forseth

ENFA Board Member, Norway

15:05-15:15

The Role of Patients Association: Italy

Giuseppina Fabio

AISF ODV, Italy

15:15-15:25

The Role of Patients Association: Israel

Sharon Gur

ASAF, Israel

15:25 CET

LIVE Panel Discussion/Q&A

16:00 CET

End of Congress