Recent innovations in pain management

INTRODUCTION

Recent Innovations in Pain Management is an international congress designed to provide a high-level, multidisciplinary update on the evolving landscape of acute, postoperative, and chronic pain care.
Bringing together leading experts from Europe, the United States, and beyond, the meeting offers a scientifically rigorous platform for discussing translational mechanisms, clinical strategies, and health system challenges in contemporary pain medicine.
The program opens with a dedicated focus on acute and postoperative pain under the chairmanship of Professors Kiladze and Varrassi.
Foundational insights into acute pain pathophysiology will be delivered by Professor A.
Dickenson, followed by clinically oriented perspectives on acute pain in rheumatology and oncology presented by Professor P.
Sarzi Puttini and R.
Guillen.
Subsequent sessions broaden the scope to multimodal perioperative strategies in plastic surgery, transplantation, and bariatric procedures, highlighting the increasing importance of individualized, procedure-specific analgesia.
Emerging paradigms, including the role of the gut microbiome in chronic pain and neuroinflammatory mechanisms in fibromyalgia, underscore the congress’s commitment to mechanistic innovation and translational relevance.
The general sessions address regional anesthesia, pain management during pregnancy and breastfeeding, mechanisms of pain chronification, and updated guidelines for postoperative pain.
Internationally recognized experts such as Professor O.
de Leon Casasola, C.
Gharibo, and V.
Mayoral will contribute to evidence-based discussions on multimodal analgesia and guideline implementation.
The congress concludes with a focus on communication, education, and Georgian national experiences in chronic pain management, emphasizing the integration of scientific evidence, clinical excellence, and health policy development.
We express our sincere gratitude to Fondazione Manarini for supporting the organization of this event; to the institutions responsible for the scientific program (American Hospital – Tbilisi and Fondazione Paolo Procacci); to all speakers who have generously contributed to this communication initiative; and to the Organizing Secretariat, whose dedicated efforts have made this congress possible.