The National Pain Strategy aimed to enact cultural transformation in pain assessment, care, professional education, and public communication.

“So a few years ago, I co-led for the country the development of the National Pain Strategy. And this was sponsored by the NIH and Health and Human Services. And I co-led this with Dr. Linda Porter from the NIH. We brought together 80 national experts in pain research, pain clinical care, pain policy, and people with lived experience with pain. And we put together a strategic plan for the country on how to enact a cultural transformation and change the way we assess care for people with pain, how we educate professionals, how we communicate with the public.”