A Webinar on Autoimmune Causes of Chronic Pain has been posted on the Pain Research Forum website on 26 Jun 2014.

Speaker: Andreas Goebel, of the University of Liverpool and The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool.

After his talk, there was a panel discussion featuring:

• Anne Louise Oaklander, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, US
• Nathan Staff, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, US
• Angela Vincent, University of Oxford, UK
• Marzia Malcangio, King’s College London, UK

Topics addressed by Andreas Goebel during his talk, titled Autoantibody Pain, included:

• What is the evidence for a role of autoantibodies in causing chronic pain?
• How can serendipity be utilized to learn more?
• Overview on potential mechanisms of autoantibody pain.
• What are the therapeutic implications of this novel concept?
• How can we begin to deliver the evidence required for treatment of patients?