Chair
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care
Institute for Quality Improvement Advisory Committee
Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Management
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, Texas
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care
Institute for Quality Improvement Advisory Committee
Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Management
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, Texas
Health officials recognize the prevalence of chronic pain among Americans as a public health problem with significant physical, emotional, societal, and economic costs. Annually, the estimated cost of medical treatment of pain is between $560