July 26, 2018
Highlighting Recent NCCIH Pain-Research News: Part 2David Shurtleff, Ph.D. July 26, 2018 The NIH Pain Consortium works to enhance pain research and promote collaboration on it across NIH Institutes and Centers. As a member of the Consortium’s executive committee, I am pleased to tell you that videos of presentations from our 2018 symposium, “From Science to Society: At the Intersection of Chronic Pain Management and the Opioid Crisis,” are available online. The many compelling talks I heard at this year’s symposium included a “fireside chat” between NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams; remarks by the new president of the American Pain Society, Dr. William Maixner; and talks by clinicians and pain patients. Among the Surgeon General’s points that I found particularly interesting were his comments on this “moment of opportunity,” e.g., to change how we approach discussing chronic pain with patients and to examine factors such as trauma, environment, and stigma in a person’s pain. He also discussed the need for implementation science to optimize the evidence-based treatments in health care systems. |
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