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Thanks for your interest in ASPN Giving Back to St. Jude for St. Jude!
Help St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital continue to lead the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened in 1962. And we won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.


Our Purpose
As we move forward in this tremendous era of innovation in the fields of pain and neuroscience, it provides a prime opportunity for those of us committed to improving patient outcomes, safety, and cost effectiveness to come together with a common voice. The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN) was founded to create a new forum for scientific exchange and thought provoking discussion amongst experienced physicians, those in training, and emerging leaders in the field.
The society has a mission to improve education, highlight scientific curiosity, establish best practice, and to elevate each other in a quest to improve the field. By this combined effort, we can foster a new sense of cooperation, collaboration, and can be a part of the solution to societal issues such as the opioid crisis, increasing disability, lack of diversity, and mixed messages about the prevailing goals of those of us striving to improve the field.
Our Purpose
As we move forward in this tremendous era of innovation in the fields of pain and neuroscience, it provides a prime opportunity for those of us committed to improving patient outcomes, safety, and cost effectiveness to come together with a common voice. The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN) was founded to create a new forum for scientific exchange and thought provoking discussion amongst experienced physicians, those in training, and emerging leaders in the field.
The society has a mission to improve education, highlight scientific curiosity, establish best practice, and to elevate each other in a quest to improve the field. By this combined effort, we can foster a new sense of cooperation, collaboration, and can be a part of the solution to societal issues such as the opioid crisis, increasing disability, lack of diversity, and mixed messages about the prevailing goals of those of us striving to improve the field.

Our Focus
The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience was established to lead us to an age of scientific enlightenment via mutual collaboration with physician members, scientists, governmental agencies, payers, centers of higher education, and other medical societies.
ASPN was created to bring the top minds in the fields of Pain and Neuroscience together to improve patient outcomes, education, and research in an all inclusive society that encourages mutual encouragement and diversity.
Our Focus
The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience was established to lead us to an age of scientific enlightenment via mutual collaboration with physician members, scientists, governmental agencies, payers, centers of higher education, and other medical societies.
ASPN was created to bring the top minds in the fields of Pain and Neuroscience together to improve patient outcomes, education, and research in an all inclusive society that encourages mutual encouragement and diversity.

Our Committees
ASPN aims to drive engagement of our members by way of our various committees. A diverse combination of a comprehensive scope of clinical pain medicine, basic and translational research, outreach, and diversity give membership many avenues to positively impact the fields of Pain and Neuroscience.
Our Committees
ASPN aims to drive engagement of our members by way of our various committees. A diverse combination of a comprehensive scope of clinical pain medicine, basic and translational research, outreach, and diversity give membership many avenues to positively impact the fields of Pain and Neuroscience.
Our Structure
ASPN is a society composed of a diverse membership that embraces input from all members regardless of age, gender, and ethnicity. Our various leadership boards play an integral role in the direction of ASPN.
Young Innovators
A committee compromised of students, residents, fellows, and early career clinicians. The Young Innovators committee plays a crucial role in the development of the current and future generation of clinician scientists in the fields of Pain and Neuroscience.
Executive Board
The Executive Board of ASPN functions to govern all aspects of the society. Executive Board members are peer selected and called to function in various duties including medical policy, practice guideline development, meeting planning, and advocacy.
Emeritus Board
A committee compromised of the experienced thought leaders in the field. The emeritus committee serves ASPN by guiding us through major clinical initiatives, meeting planning, inter-society relations, and mentorship of the future generation of clinician scientists.
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