Pain Research, Education & Policy

Wounded Warriors: Pain Management in the Military

April 19, 2011

by Pamela Katz Ressler, RN, BSN, HN-BC, MS-PREP candidate, PREP-AIRED blog moderator and administrator, Tufts University School of Medicine 

Please join the Pain Research Education and Policy Program’s (PREP) faculty, students and alumni for the 2011 Sackler Lecture on Thursday, April 21 at 4 PM in the Tufts Medical Center’s Wolff Auditorium.   The PREP program is honored to host  Dr. Rollin (Mac) Gallagher, MD, MPH  for this year’s lecture.  Dr. Gallagher, a prominent expert in the field of pain management, will address the complex pain issues confronting the military  in today’s wars and how the VA Health System is managing these from acute injury through rehabilitation.  His lecture is entitled: “The Veterans Administration Department of Defense Systems Redesign: Pain Management for Wounded Warriors from Injury to Recovery”. 

Dr. Gallagher currently serves as Director of Pain Management, Philadelphia Veteran Affairs Medical Center.  He is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Director for Pain Policy Research and Primary Care, Penn Pain Medicine Center, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.  He is Editor-in-Chief of Pain Medicine, the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, that he has also served as president. He currently serves on the National Pain Management Strategy Coordinating Committee for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

If you cannot join us in person for Dr. Gallagher’s lecture, we will have a link to his recorded lecture posted here next week.

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