May / June 2022

• NPAC’s Executive Director joined the advisory board of a joint NIH-EU effort to establish core research domains for acute pain, acute to chronic translation, episodic pain, and chronic pain.

• NPAC’s Executive Director spoke on the importance of Telehealth hosted by Healthy Women.

• NPAC presented a Symposium at the 2022 Scientific Meeting of the U.S. Association for the Study of Pain.

• NPAC worked with the National Academy of Medicine on a Chronic Pain Journey Map.

• The US Supreme Court unanimously adopted the argument made by NPAC in its amicus curiae brief in Ruan v. US. In a case involving the appropriate legal standard for medical providers under the Controlled Substances Act.