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Pain
Associations & Resources
Note: Much of the following information was taken from pages on our
"sister' website: Pain101.com.
American Academy of Craniofacial Pain
516 W. Pipeline Road
Hurst, Texas 76053 (800-322-8651) Cordelia Mason, Executive
Director
Administrative Assistants: Joe Mason & Lori Soward
www.aacfp.prg
Has 500 members--dentists who treat head, facial, neck pain. Referral service
for patients suffering from head, facial, neck pain worldwide.
American Academy
of Pain Management
13947 Mono Way, Suite
A
Sonora, CA
95370 (209-533-9744) Katherine Padgett - Director
www.aapainmanage.org
Accredits pain programs, has more than 6,000 certified members (MDs - mostly
anesthesiologists, chiropractors, physical therapists, psychologists, others)
American
Association for the Study of Headache
19 Mantua Road
Mount Royal, NJ
08061 (609-423-0043) Exec. Director: Linda McGillicuddy
www.aash.org
Has 1,600 physician members,
publishes journal: Headache
also at same address: American Academy of Orofacial Pain
American Chronic
Pain Association
P.O. Box 850
Rocklin, CA 95677
(916-632-0922), Penny Cowan - Director
Support group, self-help organization for pain patients with 850 local
chapters, publishes a newsletter and workbook, has 5,000 consumers on their
mail list
American Council
For Headache Education
19 Mantua Road
Mt. Royal, NJ 08061
(1-856-423-0258)
Has a quarterly newsletter, offers referrals to local professionals, runs
support groups, $15/year annual member dues.
American Headache Society
19 Mantua Road
Mount Royal, NJ 08061 (856-423-0043)
www.ahsnet.org
Has
over 2,500 health care professional members; In 1990, the Society formed the
American Council for Headache Education (ACHE)
American Pain
Foundation
201 N. Charles
Street, Suite 710
Baltimore, Maryland
21201-4111 (410-783-7292) James N. Campbell, MD, Director
www.painfoundation.org
Serves as a coordinator for patient support organizations, public education
about pain
American Pain
Society (part of I.A.S.P.)
4700 West Lake Ave.
Glenview, IL
60025-1485 (847-375-4715)
Richard Payne, MD-
President
www.ampainsoc.org
Member of Intl. Assn. for Study of Pain, multidisciplinary group of physicians
and pain management experts, has annual member directory, newsletter (APS
Journal), conferences. Also publishes Pain Forum.
American Society
of Pain Management Nurses
7794 Grow
Drive
Pensacola, FL 32514 9 (888-34-ASPMN) Micke
A. Brown,
BSN, RN, President
www.aspmn.org
Arthritis
Foundation
P.O. Box 7669
Atlanta, GA 30357-0669 (800-283-7800), Tino Mantella - President
www.arthritis.org
Commission on
Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (C.A.R.F.)
4891 E. Grant Road
Tucson, AZ 85712,
USA, (520-325-1044), Brian J. Boon, Ph.D., Director
www.carf.org
Around 4,000 CARF-accredited
service providers serve approximately 4 million persons; produces standards
manuals; one of the major pain program accrediting bodies.
International
Association for the Study of Pain
909 N.E. 43rd St.,
Suite 306
Seattle, WA 98105
(206-547-6409), Louisa Jones - Exec. Officer
www.halcyon.com/iasp
Has
5600 individual members from 83 countries; members-scientists, physicians, other
health professionals interested in pain research/therapy. Promotes
education/training in field of pain, informs public of current research,
publishes member directory.
Also operates the American Academy of Pain Medicine:
American Academy
of Pain Medicine
4700 West Lake Ave.
Glenview, IL
60025 (847-375-4731) Melvin Gitlin - Pres.
Jeffrey Engle
- Exec. Director
Physician-only group, publishes Clinical Journal of Pain, mission is to
enhance the practice of pain management in the U.S.; the only pain organization
with representation in the American Medical Association (AMA) House of
Delegates.
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Information Clearinghouse
National Institutes of Health
1 AMS Circle
Bethesda, MD 20892-3675
301-495-4484 or 877-22-NIAMS (226-4267)
National Chronic
Pain Outreach Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 274
Millboro, VA
24460 (301-652-4948) Michael Troyer - Director
Members include: MDs, patients and spouses, physical therapists, others.
Information clearinghouse, makes referrals, publishes newsletters
National Committee
on the Treatment of Intractable Pain
c/o Wayne Coy Jr.
Cohn & Marks
1920 N. Street N.W.,
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
(202-452-4836)
3,500
members, promotes education/research into more effective methods of pain
prevention and control.
National
Comprehensive Cancer Network
50 Huntingdon Pike,
Suite 200
Rockledge, PA 19046 (215-690-0252) Kim Schwalje, Public Relations Specialist
National Headache
Foundation
820 N. Orleans, Suite
217
Chicago, IL
60610 (888-NHF-5552) Contact: Suzanne Simons, Director of Admin.
www.headaches.org
Anesthesia Organizations
American Board of Anesthesiology - part of ABMS.org
(American Board of
Medical Specialists) (847-491-9091)
4101 Lake Boone
Trail, Suite 510
Summit Building
Raleigh, NC
27607 (919-881-2570) M. Matjasko - President
www.abanes.org
* certifies anesthesiologists in pain management via examinations.
American Society
of Anesthesiologists
520 N. Northwest Hwy.
Park Ridge, IL
60068-2573 (847-825-5586), James E. Cottrell, M.D.- President
www.asahq.org
Has more than 37,000 members, professional society of physicians specializing in
or interested in anesthesiology, U.S. & foreign, holds convention,
publishes: Anesthesiology, and a newsletter.
The American
Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
P.O. Box 11086
Richmond, VA 23230-1086 (804-282-0010) Terese T. Horlocker, MD, President
Sub-specialty of anesthesia, related to certain areas of the body (i.e.
"regional" concentration), education and accreditation activities, annual
meeting, workshops, newsletter.
Other Relevant Associations
American
Chiropractic Association
1701 Clarendon Blvd.
Arlington, VA
22209 800-986-4636 Daryl D. Wills, DC President
www.amerchiro.org
American Back
Society
2647 International
Blvd., Suite 401
Oakland, CA 94601
(510-536-9929) Philip E. Greenman, D.O., F.A.A.O., President
www.americanbacksoc.org
Interdisciplinary
group that holds symposia on back care therapies, publishes a newsletter of
recent research in field, has 2,000 members (MDs, chiropractors, physical
therapists, others).
The American Fibromyalgia
Syndrome Association
6380 E. Tanque Verde, Suite D
Tucson, AZ 85715 (520-733-1570) Kristin
Thorson, President
www.afsafund.org
American Physical
Therapy Association
APTA, 1111 North
Fairfax Street
Alexandria, VA
22314-1488 (703-684-APTA) (800-999-2782) Ben F Massey, Jr, PT, MA, President
www.apta.org
Reflex Sympathetic
Dystrophy Assn. of America
P.O. Box 502
Milford, CT 06460 (203-877-3790)
www.rsds.org
The TMJ
Association, Ltd.
P.O. Box 26770
Milwaukee, WI
53226-0770 (414-259-3223) President: Terrie Cowley
www.tmj.org
1,000 members, receive newsletter, started in 1986 as a support group, now a
patient advocacy group.
Pain-Related Journals & Publications
Anesthesia & Analgesia
The Hearst Building
5 Third Street, Suite 1216
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-777-2750
Journal of Pain
& Symptom Management
Elsevier Science Inc.
655 Ave. of the
Americas
New York, NY 10010
(212-633-3927) Assoc. Publisher: Glen Campbell
Pain Research & Management
Canadian Pain Society
Pulsus Group Inc
2902 South Sheridan Way
Oakville, Ontario Canada L6J 7L6
The Clinical Journal of Pain
Lippincott, Williams & Wilkens
16522 Hunters Green Parkway
Hagerstown, MD 21740 (301-223-2300)
Research Institutions
Pain Therapeutics,
Inc.
416 Browning Way
South San Francisco,
CA 94080 (650-624-8200)
Christi Waarich,
Manager of Investor Relations
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