Partners for Understanding Pain
Partners for Understanding Pain is a consortium of organizations that touch the lives of people with chronic, acute, and cancer pain.
The partnership, spearheaded by the American Chronic Pain Association, will strive to create greater understanding among health care professionals, individuals and families who are struggling with pain management, the business community, legislators, and the general public that pain is a serious public health issue.
Through its members, each of whom brings its own perspective to the dialogue, Partners for Understanding Pain represents a comprehensive network of resources and knowledge about issues in pain management.
Partners for Understanding Pain is dedicated to building the understanding and support that can help people with chronic, acute and cancer pain lead better lives.
- American Academy of Pain Medicine
- American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing
- American Association of Rehabilitation Nurses
- American Back Society
- American Cancer Society
- American Chronic Pain Association
- American Nurses Association
- American Public Health Association
- American Sleep Apnea Association
- American Society of Pain Management Nursing
- American Society of Perianesthesia Nurses
- Arthritis Foundation
- Baylor College of Medicine Department of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation
- Covenant Health System, Covenant Medical Center Covenant Lakeside
- Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX
- Endometriosis Research Center
- Family Caregivers Alliance
- For Grace
- Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
- Intercultural Cancer Council
- International Endometriosis Association
- Interstitial Cystitis Association
- International Pain Foundation
- Lupus Foundation of America
- Men’s Health Network
- Massachusetts Pain Initiative
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- National Association of Social Workers
- National Consumer League
- National Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- National Headache Foundation
- National Medical Association
- National Urban League
- National Vulvodynia Association
- National Womens’ Health Resource
- Neuropathy Association
- Online Nurse Practitioner Programs
- Pain Policy Studies Group University of Wisconsin
- The Pain Community (TPC)
- Pharmaceutical Research and Manufactures of America
- Post-Polio Health International
- Sickle Cell Disease Association
- Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at John Hopkins
- Southern California Cancer Pain Initiative
- TMJ Association
- Trigeminal Neuralgia Association
- Triumph Over Pain Foundation
- University of Florida Comprehensive Center for Pain Research
- VZV Research Foundation
- World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Policy and Communications
