Organization Spotlight
PAINS Advisory Committee Member Spotlight: Cindy Steinberg
by Lesli Hill, MS - Volunteer Coordinator, PAINS Advisory Committee Cindy Steinberg is a woman with a mission to use her serious workplace accident as a catalyst for improving pain care through policy change, transforming understanding of the personal impact of pain...
American Association of Naturopathic Physicians
Who They Are The American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) represents approximately 5,000 licensed naturopathic physicians in the U.S. who are trained as experts in natural medicine. Their orientation is on finding the underlying cause of a patient's...
Chronic Pain Research Alliance
Who They Are The Chronic Pain Research Alliance (CPRA) is the country’s first and only research-led collaborative advocacy effort dedicated to changing the lives of those with Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions (COPCs). Their Mission With the ultimate goal of...
American Academy of Pain Medicine
Who They Are The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) is the medical specialty society representing physicians practicing in the field of pain medicine. As a medical specialty society, the Academy is involved in education, training, advocacy, and research in the...
Consumer Pain Advocacy Task Force (CPATF)
Who They Are The Consumer Pain Advocacy Task Force is comprised of 16 organizations working to improve the well-being of those living with chronic pain. They are united with one goal – to work collectively to promote, support and monitor the implementation of the...
Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
The Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine (SPPM) is a Society organized within the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia. The SPPM concept originated with directors and key leaders of acute and chronic pediatric pain medicine programs, who believed there was a need for a...
American Physical Therapy Association
The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is an individual membership professional organization representing more than 93,000 member physical therapists (PTs), physical therapist assistants (PTAs), and students of physical therapy. APTA seeks to improve the...
National Psoriasis Foundation
The National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to drive efforts to cure psoriatic disease and improve the lives of those affected. Founded in 1966 from a tiny classified ad in a Portland, Ore. newspaper, the Psoriasis Foundation...
Kids Get Arthritis, Too
Mission: The Arthritis Foundation's online home for the 300,000 families who live with juvenile arthritis is KidsGetsArthritisToo.org. Their Eductional Rights Toolkit is a set of resources parents can use to help ensure success at school. There are checklists, forms...
American Migraine Foundation
Mission: The American Migraine Foundation is a non-profit foundation supported by the American Headache Society® and generous donors dedicated to the advancement of migraine research. The mission of the American Migraine Foundation is to support innovative research...
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