Presenting on "Role of neuroinflammation in chronic pain : insight from patient neuroimaging data (PET)"

Marco Loggia, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, a faculty member of the MGH/HST Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and the Co-Director of the Center for Integrative Pain NeuroImaging (CiPNI), in Boston, MA.  He received his Ph.D. in Neurological Sciences at McGill University under the supervision of Prof. M. Catherine Bushnell, and then held the position of Research Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Loggia’s main research questions focus on the neural and neuroinflammatory mechanisms of pain in humans, which he investigates using a variety of brain imaging and behavioral techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography and quantitative sensory testing. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles, and is a recipient of the 2013 Early Career Award and the 2016 Ulf Lindblom Young Investigator Award for Clinical Science, both from the International Association for the Study of Pain. He serves as Section Editor for PAIN.