CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Karen J. Berkley, Ph.D.
Karen J. Berkley, Ph.D. is McKenzie Professor and Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL USA. She graduated from Brown University in 1963 (Biology), and received her Ph.D. from University of Washington, Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics and Psychology in 1968. She has been at FSU since then where her basic and translational research program uses a combination of behavioral, neurophysiological, physiological, pharmacological, neuroanatomical, and brain imaging methods to address the general issue of neural mechanisms of pelvic pain and pelvic function. Her current research uses a rodent model of endometriosis to investigate mechanisms of the pains of endometriosis and how it co-occurs with other clinical disorders. Her group’s most recent discovery is that the ectopic endometrial growths harvested from both the rodent model and women develop their own sensory and autonomic nerve supply. She has been funded continuously since 1974 by NIH and sometimes NSF, published more than 100 scientific articles, served on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals (currently: Pain, The Journal of Pain, and Somatosensory & Motor Research), was a councilor for both the Society for Neuroscience and the International Association for the Study of Pain, served on three committees of the National Academy of Sciences, and is a frequent speaker at national and international scientific conferences.
Karen J. Berkley, Ph.D.
McKenzie and Distinguished Research Professor
Program in Neuroscience
Eppes Hall, Copeland Street
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1270 USA
E-mail:
kberkley@psy.fsu.edu
