To grow and strengthen the CIPM workforce, particularly in underserved communities, AACIPM, in collaboration with Integrative Medicine for the...
Bolstering Integrative Pain Workforce through Scholarships to UVM Conference
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AACIPM News
AACIPM’s blog is designed to “Connect the Dots” to catalog relevant activities showing action to advance comprehensive integrative pain management. This might include a relevant meeting, a published article, a white paper, an innovative clinical program, a policy priority that is aligned, a presentation that references this topic, an example of CIPM in action, or more. We welcome your contributions to this blog—and to changing the paradigm for pain care. Please contact AACIPM Director, Amy Goldstein with questions or to submit your blog idea.
Advanced by Passage of CARA, Veterans Connected to Whole Health Increased by 193%
Thanks to a directive in CARA (2016), the Veterans Administration radically changed its approach to health care and is piloting the Whole Health...
A Year Later: Talking about Telehealth with Twillman
The AACIPM team thought it would be interesting to ask Bob Twillman, PhD, FACLP, Pain Management Psychologist, Saint Luke's Health System, some...
Connecting the Dots: IOM (Now NAM), CARA 3.0 and Whole Person, Multidisciplinary Pain Management
by Amy Goldstein, MSW, Director, AACIPM What is CARA and how does it relate to the work of AACIPM and whole health pain management?Let’s connect...
Spotlight: Kate Nicholson and the National Pain Advocacy Center
an interview with Kate Nicholson, President & Founder, NPAC What is the National Pain Advocacy Center? The National Pain Advocacy Center (NPAC)...
How Pain Education Helped Me Go from My Wheelchair to Win a Medal in Less than a Year
In my November 2020 spotlight, “Patient Resources: Not Just for “Newbies,” I shared a bit of my 18+ year journey with chronic pain and my recent,...
Free Yoga Initiative Begins 3/6 + New Long COVID
Colleagues, This e-bulletin was developed with expert input from Body Politic, one of the partners of the just-announced Long COVID Alliance, in...
AMA’s story Texas FQHC Develops Integrative Model for People with Pain | Advocacy Efforts to Improve Access
New story in American Medical Association’s microsite, End the Epidemic People with acute and chronic pain, especially those who are underserved,...
Spotlight Patricia Herman, RAND: Four Papers Focus on Patient Use of Provider-Based Nonpharmacological Care for Chronic Spinal Pain
We asked AACIPM Advisory Committee member, Patricia Herman, ND, PhD, Senior Behavioral Specialist, RAND Corporation, why this series was created....
AACIPM 2020 Year-End Review
A Paradigm Shift to Advance Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management Year-End Review 2020 AACIPM's 2020 Highlights Click on each topic to...