The Mayday Fund Special Committee on Pain and the Practice of Medicine
Committee Co-Chairs:
Russell K. Portenoy, MD
Chair, Department of Pain Medicine & Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center
Professor of Neurology & Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Lonnie Zeltzer, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, and Director, Pediatric Pain Program, Mattel Children’s Hospital, UCLA
Associate Director, Patients & Survivors Program, UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center
Committee Members:
James N. Campbell, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Nancy Eksterowicz, RN, BC, MSN
Immediate Past President, American Society for Pain Management Nursing
Scott M. Fishman, MD
President & Board Chair, American Pain Foundation
Chief, Division of Pain and Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of California, Davis
Sandra Fitzler
Senior Director of Clinical Services, American Health Care Association
Kathleen M. Foley, MD
Attending Neurologist, Pain & Palliative Care Service and Chief, Pain Service, Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience & Clinical Pharmacology, Cornell University Medical College
Rollin M. Gallagher, MD, MPH
President, American Academy of Pain Medicine
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Anesthesiology, Director for Pain Policy Research & Primary Care,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Carmen R. Green, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Michigan School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Health Management & Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Constance S. Houck, MD
Chair, Section on Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, American Academy of Pediatrics
Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia, Children’s Hospital of Boston
Bill McCarberg, MD
Founder, Chronic Pain Management Program, Kaiser Permanente San Diego
Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California, San Diego
Patrick McGrath, OC, PhD
Vice President, Research, IWK Health Centre
Professor of Psychology, Pediatrics & Psychiatry, Dalhousie University
Anne Louise Oaklander, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Pathology (Neuropathology), Massachusetts General Hospital
Steven D. Passik, PhD
Associate Attending Psychologist, Department of Psychiatric & Behavioral Sciences,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College
Lisa Robin
Senior Vice President, Member Services, Federation of State Medical Boards
Will Rowe
Chief Executive Officer, American Pain Foundation
Seddon R. Savage, MD, MS
President-Elect, American Pain Society
Director, Dartmouth Center on Addiction, Recovery & Education
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Medical School
Pain Consultant, Manchester VA Medical Center
Mary Jean Schumann, MSN, MBA, RN, CPNP
Chief Programs Officer, American Nurses Association
Knox H. Todd, MD, MPH
Director, Pain and Emergency Medicine Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Peter VanPelt, RPh
Senior Manager, Corporate Alliances, American Pharmacists Association
Gary A. Walco, PhD
Director of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Washington College of Medicine
Robert A. Wise, MD
Vice President, Division of Standards and Survey Methods, The Joint Commission
All signatories
Please note that signatory status indicates only the signatory's endorsement of the content of the Special Committee's report. It does not signify endorsement of the Mayday Fund, The Committee, or any other organization, nor does the Mayday Fund necessarily endorse the organization or person of any or all signatories.
| First Name |
| Steven Cowart |
| Flight Simulation Project Manager NASA |
| Patrick Coyne, RN |
| Clinical Nurse Specialist and Clinical Director Thomas Palliative Care Unit at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals/Virginia Commonwealth Health Systems |
| David Craig |
| Clinical Pharmacist Specialist H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center |
| Mia Cruz |
| Owner Cruz-Net |
| Catherine Daly |
| Rn Lamaze instructor American nurses association |
| Erika DeCarlo |
| Volunteer Advocate POPAN |
| Mary Doino |
| Advocare Patient Advocay |
| Larry C. Driver, MD |
| Professor and Vice-Chair; Adjunct Ethicist, Clinical Ethics Consultation Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |
| Claretta Dupree |
| Assistant Professor Milwaukee School of Engineering |
| Robert Echenberg |
| MD Pelvic Pain Management |
| Elizabeth Ely, RN, PhD |
| Nursing Researcher Center for Pediatric Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Perry G. Fine, MD |
| Professor of Anesthesiology Pain Research Center, School of Medicine, University of Utah |
| Judy Fine-Edelstein, MD |
| MD Neurologist |
| G. Allen Finley, MD, FRCPC, FAAP |
| Professor of Anesthesia and Psychology Dalhousie University Medical School |
| Teresa Flynn, RN, BSN |
| Director of Accreditation AAPM |
| Paul Gileno |
| President/Founder US Pain Foundation inc |
| Toni Glover |
| Family Nurse Practitioner University of Florida, Pain Research & Intervention Center of Excellence |
| Una Gohery-Loose |
| CCRN. |
| Donna Gray |
| RNBSN |
| Thomas B. Gregory, Pharm. D. |
| Clinical Lead Pharmacist - Surgery and Corporate Pain Committee Co-Chair Truman Medical Center-Hospital Hill |
| Beth Grunschel |
| Psychiatry Resident Yale University |
| Stacy Gunter |
| None None |
| Diana Gustafsson |
| Assistant Director for Scientific Affairs Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation |
| R. Whit Hall, MD |
| Professor, Neonatology University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences |
| Helen Harris |
| Chronic Pain N/A |
| Gwenn Herman |
| Executive Director Pain Connection-Chronic Pain Outreach Center, Inc. |
| Chris Herndon, PharmD, BCPS, CPE |
| Assistant Professor Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
| Keela A. Herr, PhD, RN, FAAN, AGSF |
| Professor & Chair, Adult & Gerontology College of Nursing, The University of Iowa |
| Pamela M. Hertzler |
| Registered Nurse |
| C Philip Hudson MD |
| Residency Program Director Dept of Family & Preventive Medicine UAMS |
| Sandra H. Johnson, JD, LLM |
| Professor Emerita of Law and Health Care Ethics, Mayday Fellowship Advisory Committee Member St. Louis University School of Law |
| Celeste Johnston, RN |
| Professor School of Nursing at McGill University, Quebec |
| Mike Karnyski |
| Member CRPS/RSD Support Group for Buffalo and WNY |
| Tom Kelly, President/CEO |
| Presicent/CEO Patient Physician Trust Partnership |
| Donna Kloppenburg |
| Forum Director Methadone Support.Org |
| Susan Kuhn |
| Healthcare Communications Consultant Individual |
| alison lauber |
| associate professor Family & palliative medicine Medical college of Georgia |
| Kelly Lloyd |
| Director SarcoidosisOnlineSites.com |
| Lora McGuire |
| member ASPMN, APS |
| Ewan McNicol, RPh, MS |
| Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology Tufts University School of Medicine |
| Corinna Morton |
| Chronic Pain Patient |
| Beth Murinson, MS, MD, PhD |
| Director of Pain Education and Assistant Professor of Neurology Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| Shirley Otis-Green, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, OSW-C |
| Senior Research Specialist Division of Nursing Research and Education, Department of Population Sciences, City of Hope National Medical Center |
| Nicky Otts |
| CEO ReCept |
| Lorie Parch |
| Editor in Chief Pain Solutions Magazine |
| Debbie Pasnak |
| Advocate ACPA |
| Franklin Perry, MD |
| President Rainbow Medical Corporation |
| Daniel Phelps |
| Senor Project Manager |
| Mordecai Potash |
| Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Neurology Tulane University School of Medicine |
| Theodore Price |
| Assistant Professor of Pharmacology University of Arizona |
| Margy Priddy |
| Education Coordinator Cape Fear Valley Health System |
| Thomas Purtzer |
| MD Intractable Pain Centers |
| M. Cary Reid, MD, PhD |
| Associate Professor of Medicine & Director Cornell Columbia Translational Research Institute on Pain in Later Life, Weill Cornell Medical College |
| Pamela Ressler |
| President Stress Resources LLC |
| Elaine Rice |
| writer/consultant self employed |
| Stephen Roberts |
| MD, CEO Doctor Steve's Banjo |
| Kimberley Robinson |
| patient |
| Amy Rowe |
| Psychotherapist |
| Chase Samsel |
| Pediatrics/Psychiatry Resident Brown Residency Program |
| Valerie Schafer |
| Senior Engineering Consultant |
| Jack Schwartz |
| Visiting Law Professor and former Assistant Attorney General, Maryland Attorney General's Office University of Maryland School of Law |
| Renee Sharp |
| LPN |
| Judy Spross |
| Professor University of Southern Maine |
| Laura S Stone |
| Assistant Professor McGill University Centre for Research on Pain |
| Scott Strassels, PharmD, PhD, BCPS |
| Assistant Professor in the Division of Pharmacy Practice, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health University of Texas at Austin, College of Pharmacy |
| Paula Tanabe |
| Research Assistant Professor Northwestern University |
| Joan M. Teno, MD, MS |
| Professor of Community Health and Medicine, Mayday Fellowship Advisory Committee Member Warren Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University |
| Marsha Tyszler |
| RSD patient, advocate, volunteer for RSDSA/TOP, and RSD Facebook support group leader |
| Barry Ulmer |
| Executive Director The Chronic Pain Association of Canada |
| Tom Watson |
| DPT DAAPM American Academy of Pain Management |
| Darla Wattier |
| disabled n/a |
| Steven J. Weisman, MD |
| Jane B. Petit Chair in Pain Management and Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin Children's Hospital of Wisconsin |
| Fletcher White |
| Professor in Anesthesia Indiana University School of Medicine |
| John Williams |
| Professor & Chair Anesthesiology & University of Pittsburgh |
| Sheila Yates |
| Ms. |
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