
September is Pain Awareness Month
September is Pain Awareness Month! Our Society strives for “Better Care for Children in Pain” and we are proud to raise awareness of pain in

The Project ECHO Team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock invites you to join – Kids in Pain: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Pediatric Pain Management
The Project ECHO Team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock invites you to join – Kids in Pain: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Pediatric Pain Management Starting April 20, 2021

Article of Interest: Emergency Department Strategies to Combat the Opioid Crisis in Children and Adolescents
New article published in Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians focuses on the effects of the opioid crisis on children and adolescents and

US Pain Foundation publishes Pediatric Pain Report
In early 2021, the Pediatric Pain Warrior program at U.S. Pain Foundation surveyed 125 families with one or more children living in pain. The

1st Pain360 Congress
1st Pain360 Congress 1 – 3 December 2021 Austria, Vienna pain-360.org Pain360 is an innovative, multidisciplinary medical event, covering contemporary, holistic techniques and approaches

Pediatric Patients Need Appropriate Pain Management After Surgery
Drs. Rita Agarwal, Vidya Chidambaram and Stephen Hays were featured in an article and podcast on the well known KevinMD platform regarding JAMA Surgery’s published

Usage of Nonpharmacological Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Pediatric Sedation
YC Lin – Springer CLICK HERE to read the article.

Usage of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pediatric Sedation
YC Lin – Pediatric Sedation Outside of the Operating Room, – Springer CLICK HERE to read the article.

Psychiatric Considerations in Pediatric Chronic Pain
Psychiatric Considerations in Pediatric Chronic Pain By Souraya Torbey, MD; Gaëlle Rached, MD, MSc; Dimitri Fiani; M-Irfan Suleman, MD, FAAP, FASA Dr. Suleman, an

Introducing SPPM Visual Pearls
Welcome to the Monthly SPPM Visual Pearls! This NEW feature from the SPPM is aimed at educating clinicians, researchers, psychologists, and allied health practitioners interested in

A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Treatment of Pediatric Chronic Pain
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Treatment of Pediatric Chronic Pain By M-Irfan Suleman, MD, FAAP, FASA; Souraya Torbey, MD; Keith J. Slifer, PhD Dr. Suleman,

Rita Allen Foundation in Pain Award
Since 2009, the Rita Allen Foundation has awarded annually the Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain, recognizing emerging experts in basic pain research whose work

JAMA Surgery Article – Concerns About Pediatric Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
In November 2020, JAMA Surgery published, “Guidelines for Opioid Prescribing in Children and Adolescents After Surgery: An Expert Panel Opinion”. These new guidelines generated important conversation

Fourteen (14) Medical Specialty Organizations Achieve Pathway to Collaborative Guide for Acute Surgical Pain
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) hosted a virtual pain summit on February 20, 2021 with 14 medical specialty societies to discuss acute surgical pain principles that

NIH Pain Consortium Grant-Mechanism Webinar Series
The NIH PainConsortium has developed a monthly webinar series on NIH grant mechanisms in pain research across career stages (training, transition and independent stages). The goal of