March/April 2024

• NPAC’s Executive Director, Kate Nicholson, and Board President, Juan Hincapie-Castillo, presented at the annual scientific meeting of the U.S. Association for the Study of Pain, delivering the symposium, Getting Pain on the Policy Agenda: Why Advocacy Matters and How to Do It.

• NPAC’s Executive Director addressed the Canadian Pain Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Ottawa.

• NPAC Community Leadership Council Member Quána Madison represented NPAC as a Lived Experience Expert at the National Institutes of Health Workshop on Advancing Health Equity in Pain Management.

• NPAC’s Executive Director Kate Nicholson spoke at the Institute of Honor’s Symposium at Washington and Lee University on Addiction and Alienation in America: Corporate Responsibility and the Opioid Crisis presenting the perspective of pain and medical ethics.

• NPAC’s Executive Director spoke as part of a web series on Navigating Careers in Research for the NIH PURPOSE project on a joint US-EU project to establish core outcome measures (COS) for research for acute pain, chronic pain, episodic pain, and acute to chronic pain translation.

• NPAC’s Executive Director participated as a panelist in the HEAL Connections Sharing Session, Communicating for Impact: Getting Your Research in the Media, a skills-building webinar designed to help train researchers to translate their work to the media. 

• NPAC's Executive Director and Board Secretary, Dawn M. Gibson, kicked off the meeting of a new collective called the Pain Collaborative to Advance Equitable Value-Based Solutions by asking what it means to take an equity-based and person-centered approach to pain care.  

• NPAC’s Executive Director joined Edward Freeman as a guest on his Stakeholder Podcast. Freeman is an American philosopher and professor of business administration at the Darden School of the University of Virginia known for his work on stakeholder theory and business ethics.