November/December 2024

• NPAC advisors Dr. Monica Mallampalli and Dr. Tamara Baker and Executive Director Kate Nicholson attended the winter meeting of the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee. 

• Several NPAC members spoke during consecutive half-day workshops hosted by the NIH HEAL Pain Research Priorities Subcommittees related to HEAL strategic planning:

  • Dr. Sean Mackey presented during the meeting on Biomarkers and Predictors

  • Dr. Tamara Baker, Quána Madison, and Kate Nicholson presented during the meeting on Health Equity Over the Life Course

  • Kate Nicholson presented during the meeting on Implementation and Health Services

• NPAC’s Executive Director met with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence. 

• NPAC’s Executive Director spoke about pain patient abandonment at the CATO Institute. 

• NPAC held meetings related to studies, including a national study on pain funded by Cornell Weil, the CSI: Opioids Study on suicide and pain, and a potential PCORI study regarding pain management in older adults.

• NPAC participated in a meeting for the US Association for the Study of Pain Advocacy Committee.