Resources to Equip
Resources to Equip You and Your Pain Care Team Be part of the premier organization dedicated to advancing and promoting the full spectrum of multidisciplinary pain care, education, advocacy, and research. AAPM is a community [...]
2020 Faculty and Planner Disclosures
2020 Annual Meeting Faculty and Planner Disclosures 2020 Annual Meeting Program Committee Members Steven P. Cohen, MD Committee Co-Chair Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, MD Avanos: Hourly Fee, Investigator, Self; SPR: Hourly Fee, Investigator, [...]
Multidisciplinary Pain Care Professionals
Effective pain care is multidisciplinary. We are, too. Be part of the premier organization dedicated to advancing and promoting the full spectrum of multidisciplinary pain care, education, advocacy, and research. AAPM is a community of [...]
AAPM Serves Multidisciplinary Pain Care Professionals
Effective pain care is multidisciplinary. We are, too. Be part of the premier organization dedicated to advancing and promoting the full spectrum of multidisciplinary pain care, education, advocacy, and research. AAPM is a community of [...]
ICD-10 Changes for 2020 Released
The ICD-10-CM update for 2020 has been released. The 2020 ICD-10-CM codes are to be used from October 1, 2019 through September 30, 2020. The 2020 edition contains 273 additions, 30 code revisions and 21 [...]
Report from the June 2019 AMA Annual Meeting
The following report was submitted by Robert Wailes, MD, AAPM AMA DelegateThe Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) convened from June 8-12, in Chicago, Illinois. I represented the membership and [...]
American Pain Society
The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) is disheartened to learn of the dissolution of the American Pain Society (APS). Over the past nearly 40 years, AAPM has been fortunate to serve alongside APS in [...]
AMA House of Delegates Annual Meeting Update
Pain medicine was represented at the recent American Medical Association House of Delegates (HOD) Annual Meeting by AAPM delegate Robert Wailes, MD, and alternate delegate Donna Bloodworth, MD. Among topics discussed, delegates advocated for patient's [...]
FDA Gives First-Ever Indication for Device to Be Used for Patients with Functional Abdominal Pain Associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
The IB-Stim is a non-surgical device that is placed behind the patient's ear during an outpatient visit and works by sending gentle electrical impulses into cranial nerve bundles located in the ear. Full story.
New AAPM SIG: Academic Pain Medicine
AAPM recently created a new Academic Pain Medicine Shared Interest Group. This SIG is dedicated to supporting academic pain medicine through:Deliberate mentorship of academic pain clinicians, under the rubric of faculty developmentProgrammatic and ongoing career [...]