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AAPM 2016 Pain Medicine Fellowship Excellence Awards honor four programs: Cleveland Clinic, UC Davis, UPMC, and Medical College of Wisconsin. Palm Springs, CA. Continue Reading
AAPM's Future Pain Care resolution urges AMA action on undertreated pain, promoting multidisciplinary care, education, and non-opioid options to curb opioid use. Continue Reading
Older adults with chronic non-cancer pain benefit from interdisciplinary pain rehab, with improvements in depression, anxiety, and function—AAPM poster. Continue Reading
AAPM study: simulation and immersive learning effectively teach safe opioid prescribing in medical education, addressing pain education gaps. Continue Reading
AAPM: Intensive outpatient pain management at Duke Health lowers costs for high-utilizer chronic pain patients, with 55% cost reduction and improved function. Continue Reading
AAPM poster shows mesenchymal stem cell transplantation (MSC-TP) alleviates neuropathic pain in rats; IV or IT delivery yields lasting analgesia for clinical trials. Continue Reading
AAPM members named to HHS Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force, led by Dr. Jianguo Cheng, Dr. Rollin Gallagher, Dr. Gazelka, and Sandbrink Continue Reading
An AAPM study shows patient-centered opioid tapering reduces long-term opioid doses by over 50% for chronic pain patients, without increasing pain intensity. Continue Reading
AAPM researchers analyze Medicare data showing barriers for disabled patients to non-opioid pain medications vs opioids; urges policy and practice changes. Continue Reading
Opioid overdose prevention program in a CIR inpatient unit reduces opioid prescriptions and increases naloxone at discharge, promoting multimodal pain care. Continue Reading
AAPM statement on the 2018 national decline in opioid prescribing, chronic pain care, addiction, and the opioid epidemic. Continue Reading
