Please join us in the celebration of the 18th Annual Joseph W. Howe Oration in Diagnostic Imaging on Friday, October 10, 2025, at 11:30-12:30 CST in classroom G-134 on the campus of Logan University. If unable to attend in person, live-stream will be available. Lunch will be provided for the first 30 in attendance.

The Orator this year is Vitaly Napadow, PhD, LAc, Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Schoen and Adams Discovery Center for Chronic Pain Recovery at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and the Center for Integrative Pain Neuroimaging (CiPNI) at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. Somatosensory, cognitive, and affective factors all influence the malleable experience of chronic pain, and Dr. Napadow’s Lab has applied human functional and structural neuroimaging to localize and suggest mechanisms by which different brain circuitries modulate pain perception. Dr. Napadow’s neuroimaging research also aims to better understand how non-pharmacological therapies, including acupuncture, transcutaneous neuromodulation, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness meditation training, ameliorate aversive perceptual states such as pain. Dr. Napadow has more than 250 publications in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, is past-President of the Society for Acupuncture Research, and was a founding member of the US Association for the Study of Pain (USASP), as well as serving on numerous conference, journal, and NIH review panels. He is a graduate of the New England School of Acupuncture. His lecture is titled “Brain-to-Brain Hyperscanning: Neuroimaging patient/clinician therapeutic alliance”.

One hour of free CE will be provided for those attending the in-person or live-streamed lecture. There is no charge for this event and the CE will be sponsored by the Logan University Research and Department of Continuing Education. You must be registered in advance for the free hour of Continuing Education.

If attending online, you will receive a link to join the webinar within 24 hours prior to the event at the email you provide when registering.

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To recieve the Zoom meeting link please contact Erica Collier: Erica.Collier@logan.edu