May 5, 2014: Update from American Pain Society Meeting, including Bonica Public Service Award
ACTTION was very active at the annual meeting of the American Pain Society, held in Tampa, Florida from April 30-May 3, 2014. There was a symposium chaired by Dr. Dennis Turk focusing on the activities of the Abuse Liability Evaluation for Research, Treatment, and Training (ALERTT) working group with presentations by Drs. Richard Dart, Bob Rappaport, and Shannon Smith, a presentation on ACTTION’s activities related to analgesic clinical trial assay sensitivity by Dr. Robert Dworkin at the meeting of the Clinical Trials Special Interest Group, two poster presentations by Dr. Jennifer Gewandter, and one poster presentation by Dr. Matthew Hunsinger.
In addition, Drs. Turk and Dworkin received the John and Emma Bonica Public Service Award in recognition of IMMPACT’s "distinguished contributions through public education, dissemination of information, public service, and other efforts to further knowledge about pain." (see award presentation here)
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ACTTION Guide to Clinical Trials of Pain Treatments
The ACTTION Guide to Clinical Trials of Pain Treatments consists of two supplements published in the journal Pain Reports that include a series of articles describing research designs and methods, study conduct, outcome measures, data analyses and interpretation, and reporting recommendations for clinical trials of acute and chronic pain treatments.
Part I includes 9 articles that can be found here, and Part II includes 6 articles that can be found here.