The 2025 Alabama Summit on Addiction and Pain will be held September 2-3, 2025, at the Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation Conference Center located in the Altec/Styslinger Genomic Medicine and Data Sciences Building.

The program will feature oral presentations, poster presentations, updates on CAPPI activities, and a Keynote Speaker presentation from Nora Volkow, MD, Director of National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. Volkow's lecture will be on Tuesday, September 2, from 1-2 p.m. The poster session will be held from 4:15-5:30 p.m.

Registration and Abstract Deadline: August 21, 2025 at 5 p.m.

Submit your abstract for consideration for inclusion in the poster session to cappi@uabmc.edu. Register for the summit below.

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Tentative Agenda

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

• 8:30-9:30 a.m. — Check-in/ Registration and Breakfast
• 9-10 a.m. — Center Directors
• 10-10:45 a.m. — Pain (presentations)
• 10:45 a.m.-12 p.m. — Novel Therapeutics (presentations)
• 12-1 p.m. — Trainee lunch with Nora Volkow, MD
• 1-2 p.m. — Featured Keynote Lecture, title TBD, Nora Volkow, MD
• 2-2:45 p.m. — Sleep and Addiction/Pain (presentations)
• 2:45-3 p.m. — Break
• 3-4:15 p.m. — Street Outreach Panel
• 4:15-5:30 p.m. — Poster Reception

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

• 8-8:30 a.m. — Registration and Breakfast
• 8:30-9 a.m. — 3-minute one slide thesis (trainees/graduate students)
• 9-9:45 a.m. — CAPPI Awardees
• 10-11 a.m. — Human Rights Panel: The Right to Pain Management
• 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. — Addiction (presentations)
• 12:30 p.m. — Box Lunch and End