Milwaukee—In episode 2 of the ON PAIN series, William Maixner, DDS, PhD, the president of the American Pain Society; and a co-director of the Duke Center for Translational Pain Medicine, the Joannes H. Karis, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, and the vice chair of research at Duke University, in Durham, N.C., discusses the future of pain research.
Recently, due to the HEAL initiative and other federal initiatives, more money is becoming available for discovery, Dr. Maixner said. The amount