About APS

Strategic Plan

In 2004, the APS Board of Directors began a structured evaluation of the society's mission and strategic goals. Extensive effort was invested in redefining the mission, vision and values of the organization and these later provided the foundation for several rigorous board planning meetings to set goals and strategies to guide the organization for the near future.

The following plan provides a summary view of the results of the board's planning efforts. The strategies in place are the basis of important new projects APS is funding.

Strategic Goals

• Prevention and treatment of pain will be improved by applying APS standards of cost-effective, interdisciplinary, evidence based care.
• Pain researchers, clinicians, providers and payers will view APS as the primary education source for the acquisition and dissemination of the latest scientifically based information on pain and its treatment.
• NIH and other funders will recognize pain as a distinct and high priority health care problem deserving increased resources for research.
• Patients will have improved access to effective pain prevention and interdisciplinary pain management.
• Pain researchers will view APS as the professional organization that best advocates for pain research in the United States.
• APS will be the multidisciplinary organizational home for all researchers, clinicians and other professionals who seek the most up-to-date scientific understanding of pain and its treatment.