March 16, 2017, ORLANDO, Fla. – Chronic pain from nerve injury is common and often debilitating. Current treatment options for neuropathic pain include physical, cognitive, behavioral, pharmacological, interventional, and surgical therapies. Unfortunately, none of these therapies is particularly [...]
March 16, 2017, ORLANDO, Fla. – Negative consequences from opioid prescribing stem in part from a lack of education and skills training in all levels of medical education. A 2011 study that assessed U.S. and Canadian medical [...]
March 16, 2017, ORLANDO, Fla. – Deaths from drug overdose have increased sharply in the past decade, an unfortunate trend that is associated with overdoes of prescription opioid pain relievers more than tripling from 1983 to 2013 [...]
March 16, 2017, ORLANDO, Fla. – Up to half of older adults (aged 60 years or more) report experiencing chronic pain. A study presented today at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's 33rd Annual Meeting as a [...]
March 16, 2017, ORLANDO, Fla. – High utilizers of medical services account for disproportionate healthcare costs, with up to 21% of expenditures spent treating the top 1% of patients (Jiang et al, Characteristics of Hospital Stays for [...]
Action planned to discuss and organize medicine's response to the public health crisis of pain (and opioid addiction)CHICAGO—A Future of Pain Care resolution, introduced by the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) to the American Medical Association [...]
{niceaccess:3} !-- Learn how to be an advocate for the field of pain and its patients. AAPM’s mission is to advance and promote the full spectrum of multidisciplinary pain care, education, advocacy, and research to [...]
2017 Annual Meeting Program Committee & Faculty 2017 AAPM Annual Meeting Program Committee Vitaly Gordin, MDCo-ChairProfessor of AnesthesiologyPenn State UniversityMedical Director, Spine CenterDirector, Pain Medicine DivisionPenn State Hershey Medical CenterHershey, PA No relevant financial relationships [...]
2018 Annual Meeting Faculty & Disclosures 2018 AAPM Annual Meeting Program Committee James W. Atchison, DOCo-ChairMedical Director, Pain Management CenterShirley Ryan AbilityLabChicago, ILBest Doctors (Expert Reviewer-Institutional Reimbursement); INSPE (Expert Reviewer-Institutional and Self Reimbursement) Vitaly Gordin, [...]
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