Providers
This page includes a compilation of our posts and resources that we believe will be of interest to a variety of healthcare providers and researchers.
Spotlight: New Specialty in Pain Management Pharmacy Could Improve Interdisciplinary Care Teams
Following up on last month’s announcement that the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) is taking active steps toward the creation of a new specialty in Pain Management Pharmacy, AACIPM reached out to Cara M. Brock, PharmD, CPE, and President of the Society of Pain and...
Spotlight: University Improves Care in Rural Communities with New Integrative Pain Management Curriculum
Dr. John Maye is a Professor and Pain Management Concentration Director for the University of South Florida, College of Nursing. He retired from the United States Navy in 2015 at the rank of Captain after serving for 27 years. A Navy Certified Registered Nurse...
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 follow up questions about how telehealth has evolved one year after his last post on the topic. Through the questions, we...
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. "Our hope was to provide some real-world information to payers regarding how patients use ongoing provider-based care for...
Integrating Behavioral Health Care into Pain Treatment Plans Improves Patient Outcomes
Executive Summary of AACIPM’s November 2020 Symposium Taking a close look at how behavioral health can be effectively utilized as part of a comprehensive approach to pain management, nearly 150 health care providers, people with pain, health insurers, and large...
Spotlight: Dr. Joanna Katzman on ECHO
An interview with Joanna G. Katzman, MD, MSPH, Professor, UNM School of Medicine; Director, UNM Pain Center; Director, ECHO Institute, Pain, Substance Use and Public Health Programs Please provide a brief history and description of the University of New Mexico Pain...
The Connector – Spotlight: Acupuncture Medicine Cultural Competency
The NCCAOM and ASA Acupuncture Medicine Cultural Competency Task Force (AMCCTF), co-chaired by Afua Bromley, MSOM, LicAc, Dipl Ac (NCCAOM), NCCAOM immediate past chair and LiMing Tseng, MAcOM, LicAc, Dipl OM (NCCAOM), ASA Board Member at Large, was formed to help...
AMA’s Story about WVU Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management in Action
You may have seen this excellent panel discussion during AACIPM's May Symposium with Dr. Clay Marsh, Dr. Rick Vaglienti, and Julianne Speeney about the transformation at West Virginia University Medicine Center for Integrative Pain Management to approach pain in a...
The Connector – Guest Spotlight: Matt Taylor
Yoga Therapy’s Potential for Filling Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management (CIPM) Gaps in Underserved/Remote Locations An interview with Matthew J. Taylor, PT, PhD, C-IAYT Dr. Taylor is an expert who has been involved in AACIPM’s efforts for many years. He brings...
Spotlight: Duke and AACIPM are Aligned in Identifying Clinical Examples of Integrated Pain Management (IPM)
AACIPM unites many stakeholders who are leading important work to advance whole person oriented, integrative and integrated pain management. This includes Duke University where many of their leaders are focused on changing the paradigm in how pain management is being...
Guest Spotlight: Sharad Kohli
Access to Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management for People in the Safety Net An interview with Sharad Kohli, MD You work at People’s Community Clinic – what kind of a clinic is this? People’s Community Clinic (PCC) is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)...
The Connector – Guest Spotlight: Bob Twillman
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced substantial changes in many aspects of our lives, as witnessed by the soaring unemployment rate, oil prices sinking so low that companies actually were paying people to take oil from them, and the widespread shutdown of social...
The Connector – Guest Spotlight: Kavitha Reddy
Kavitha Reddy, MD, Whole Health System Clinical Director, Veterans Health Administration, was one of five presenters during the focus group facilitated by AACIPM and Midwest Business Group on Health on March 4 in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Reddy shared some exciting...
The Connector – Guest Spotlight: Jeff Dusek
Dr. Jeffery Dusek is the Director of Research, Connor Integrative Health Network, University Hospitals, Cleveland OH and an Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. He also serves as the...
Be an Agent for Change: A Health Policy Roadmap for Integrative Health Professionals
This interactive and dynamic pre-congress workshop will take place at the 2020 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 28. AACIPM's director, Amy Goldstein, will join esteemed colleagues to focus on what participants can...
Roundtable: Implementing Integrated Pain Management: Lessons from North Carolina Health Systems and Beyond
On February 5, a group of key stakeholders, including Amy Goldstein, Director, AACIPM and many of our Advisory Committee members and other participating leaders, will convene in Durham, NC, as the first of a 3-part program as part of the Duke School of Medicine Opioid...
Press Release: Patients, Providers, and Payors Unite to Advocate for Comprehensive Pain Treatment Policies
[Washington, DC] – A group of leading national health care organizations have established the Alliance to Advance Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management (AACIPM), a first-of-its-kind multi-stakeholder collaborative to promote comprehensive integrative pain...