U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Exploring Cutting-Edge Pain Research Through the NIH HEAL Initiative
Wed, 11/29/2023 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Overview
Together with the American Society for Pain Management Nursing®, the Helping to End Addiction Long-term® Initiative, or NIH HEAL Initiative®, presents a virtual Grand Rounds highlighting HEAL-funded pain research progress that may affect clinical nursing practice. The HEAL pain research portfolio is broad, spanning basic research to identify new pain targets to clinical trials to comparative effectiveness trials evaluating nonpharmacological pain management interventions. Because nurses are at the frontline of pain management efforts, HEAL is eager to work with this important community toward implementation of clinically important findings that may improve the lives of individuals who often do not have good options for managing chronic pain. Other collaborators for the Grand Rounds include the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine, the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses, and the Nursing Organizations Alliance. The presentation will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, November 29, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. ET.
Note: The Greater Kansas City Chapter of ASPMN is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Kansas State Board of Nursing. This course offering is approved for 2.1 contact hours applicable for RN, LPN, or LMHT relicensure. Kansas State Board of Nursing Provider Number: LT LT0279-0412GKCC526.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the current portfolio of HEAL research activities, with an emphasis on pain research.
- Identify research results and major accomplishments of HEAL research activities.
- Determine how HEAL’s research and findings are potentially practice changing and meaningful to clinical nursing practice.
- Discuss future goals of the NIH HEAL Initiative.
Speakers
Linda Porter, Ph.D., Director, Office of Pain Policy and Planning, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Dr. Linda Porter is the Director of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Office of Pain Policy and Planning. She holds a bachelor’s degree in physical therapy from McGill University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Boston University. Porter trained in neurophysiology at Rockefeller University and then served on the faculty of the Uniformed Services University until joining NIH in 2003. Her role includes coordinating activities of the NIH Pain Consortium and the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee, whose missions, respectively, are to advance the trans-NIH and interagency pain research agenda. She co-chaired the development of the National Pain Strategy and the Federal Pain Research Strategy. She had a key role in development of the NIH HEAL Initiative and is currently a scientific lead for the pain research supported by HEAL. Porter has been recognized for her work through the President’s Award from the American Academy of Pain Medicine, NIH Director’s Awards, and the Emma and John Bonica Public Service Award from the American Pain Society.
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