Membership
Special Interest Groups
Pain in Infants, Children and Adolescents
- Chair: Tonya M Palermo, PhD
- Oregon Health & Science Univ
Anesthesiology & Peri-Operative Medicine
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd UHN-2
Portland, OR 97239-3098
(503) 494-0848
palermot@ohsu.edu
About the SIG: The Pain in Infants, Children and Adolescents SIG is comprised of an interdisciplinary group focused on promoting advocacy, education, policies, programs, and research about pain in children. The SIG started as a working group charged with developing a policy statement on acute pain in children. This APS Task Force on Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents was chaired by Dr. Gary Walco who also became the first chairperson of the SIG. Other previous SIG chairs have included Drs. Jolene Bean-Lijewski and Steven Weisman. The SIG has been active in developing position statements, sharing research findings at APS annual meetings, holding pediatric pain education days, and serving on APS committees and task forces.
Position Statements on Pain in Children:
Pediatric Chronic Pain (http://www.ampainsoc.org/advocacy/pediatric.htm)
Joint AAP/APS statement: The Assessment and Management of Acute Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents at http://www.ampainsoc.org/advocacy/pediatric2.htm and http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;108/3/793
Pediatric Chronic Pain Programs in the U.S.:
Click here for a list of dedicated pediatric chronic pain programs: pain clinic list v020410.pdf
Pediatric Chronic Pain Programs in Canada
(http://www.canadianpainsociety.ca/PainClinics_List.pdf)
Next Meeting:
Business meeting at the 2010 meeting of the American Pain Society will occur on Friday, May 7th, 2010 from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Agenda to follow
To join the SIG: Contact the APS National Office at info@ampainsoc.org, or call our Membership Department at 847-375-4715
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