Our academy, our mission, our work!

This publication finds me at the half-way point of my tenure as president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. It is therefore timely to review our academy’s goals and progress, reflecting upon and inspecting our work together as a committed and talented group of management team members and volunteer leaders. To share highlights of the year-to-date, I have created a “virtual interview,” posing questions (Q’s) to key leadership among the various domains of our ongoing initiatives. I trust that you will find their responses to be as informative and inspiring as have I, and that they may motivate you to seek out a position in the Academy’s infrastructure of committees and related working groups so that you may exercise your enthusiasm for our mission in similarly tangible ways—and strive to become the next leaders of our Academy. I have asked Phil Saigh, our Executive Director, to lead the way, answering questions designed to provide an overview of our status, with details and perspective to follow, provided by those committee chairs overseeing the various topical areas.