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The American Academy of Pain Management was co-founded
by Richard S. Weiner, PhD and Kathryn A. Weiner, PhD. The Academy was
incorporated in 1988 as a non profit 501c6 organization. At this
time a Code of Ethics and a Patient Bill of Rights was established. (Click
on the icons to the right to obtain these documents.)
Kathryn A. Weiner, PhD and Richard S. Weiner, PhD
have been recognized and honored as two of the forty most influential
individuals in the field of Pain from the UCLA Biomedical Library History
of Pain Collection.
The Academy has held Seventeen Annual Clinical
Meetings since it's founding. Focusing on cutting edge topics
from multiple disciplines, information has always been presented
by experts in the field of pain management.
The Academy started by credentialing multidisciplinary
pain practitioners. It's next accomplishment was creating quality publications
such as the American Journal of Pain Management; The Pain
Practitioner and a text book; Pain Management: A Practical Guide for Clinicians.
The founders then focused on creating tools to assist clinicians in their
practice and established Pain Program Accreditation and an outcomes measurement
tool; the National Pain Data Bank. General Membership was then established
bringing together and providing networking opportunities for like minded
professionals. The Academy's dedication to excellence then transferred
to the Continuing Education Department that has developed quality educational
programming in the field of pain management.
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