The Academy offers educational opportunities for pain practitioners, including the Annual Clinical Meeting and enduring materials.

New CE Credit

New Interactive Online Activity offered free of charge for 1-hour CME/CE/CPE designed for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, and pharmacists Click here to begin the activity.

Annual Clinical Meeting

As the major educational activity of the Academy, the Annual Meeting offers educational courses and hands-on sessions in pain management. Continuing education credits/units are available; click here for more information.

Attendees of the 2011 Annual Clinical Meeting: All continuing education certificates will be mailed by November 17, 2011. If you have not received your certificate, please contact Cathleen Coneghen, Education Manager, at 919-890-5215.

The 2012 Annual Clinical Meeting will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, September 20-23, 2012. Click here for more information.


The Academy's Learning Center


The Learning Center is designed to give you quick and easy access to continuing medical education activities. For members only.

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Resources

Are You Interested in Participating in the Chronic Pain and Headache TeleECHO™ Clinic?
Read about the University of New Mexico's Chronic Pain and Headache TeleECHO™ program which offers no cost CME clinicians who practice in underserved areas of New Mexico and see if you would like to participate.

Emerging Solutions in Pain
Provides a diverse multimedia collection of complimentary clinical tools, resources and continuing education for pain management and addiction medicine.

"How to Manage Chronic Pain" on Health Radio
Many people who take medications for chronic pain sometimes wonder, "Is there more that I could be doing to better manage my condition?" Increasingly, research is showing that the answer is yes. With host Dr. Derrick DeSilva, Dr. Robert Bonakdar joins the show to explains how to use an integrative approach to manage chronic pain.

Robert Bonakdar, MD is the Director of Pain Management at the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, San Diego, CA and a Member of the Board of Directors, American Academy of Pain Management.

 

Write for The Pain Practitioner

The Pain Practitioner, the Academy's quarterly magazine with a distribution of more then 10,000, is currently accepting submissions for its 2011 Issues for its feature sections and in the following subject areas:

Headache
Lifestyle
Musculoskeletal Pain
Neuropathic Pain
Rheumatology

Articles should address practical considerations for the pain management practitioner and may not promote any specific product or facility.

Please contact Debra Nelson-Hogan, Editor (Email: dhogan@seersha.com) with any questions and for our Author’s Guidelines and Outline Submission Form.

 

Contact Information

Debra Nelson-Hogan
Director of Education
Editor of The Pain Practitioner
Tel: 212.532.4794
Fax: 212.532.5397
dhogan@seersha.com

 

 

Updated November 8, 2011

2011 Annual
Clinical Meeting

Speaker Abstract Proposal Form (Word DOC)

Poster Abstract Proposal Form (Word DOC)

Satellite Symposium Proposal Form (DOC)

 

 

Read the 2010 Poster Abstracts (PDF)