A National Coalition for Responsible Pain Care
American Academy of Pain Medicine • American Pain Society
American Society of Anesthesiologists
| Historically | Limited pain research in individual institutes (NIDCR, NINDS, NCI) with no formal cross-institute coordination, no formal extramural input, and no reporting on pain research funding |
| 1996 | Senator Hatch and others propose National Center for Pain Research |
| 1997 | NIH Responds by creating NIH Pain Consortium |
| 2003 | National Pain Care Policy Act ("NPCPA") first introduced in House of Representatives; includes proposed National Center for Pain and Palliative Care Research; reintroduced in 2005 |
| 2006 | NIH hosts 1st Annual Pain Consortium Symposium NIH Reform Act of 2006 requires NIH to begin tracking and reporting on chronic pain research activity |
| 2007 | NPCPA reintroduced without National Center concept but with provisions strengthening the NIH Pain Consortium and creating a pain research advisory committee |
| 2010 | Affordable Care Act includes pain research provsions from NPCPA, with modifications |
| 2011 | Institute of Medicine issues landmark report on "Relieving Pain in America" |
| 2012 | NINDS designated as lead institute for pain research NIH Appoints Inter-Agency Pain Research Coordinating Committee ("IPRCC") assuring for the first time extramural input in NIH pain research policy and strategy Senate HELP Committee holds hearing on "Pain in America: Exploring Challenges to Relief" |
| 2013 | IPRCC identifying gaps in NIH pain research portfolio. |