Honoring Excellence

Every year APS rewards excellence in the field of pain management and research by presenting awards for career achievement, pain scholarship, education and public service, advocacy on behalf of children, outstanding service to APS, and early career achievemetns.

The 2015 recipients of the prestigious APS annual achievement awards will receive their awards at the President's Recognition Reception, to be held, Thursday, May 14, 6:30-8 pm. The evening’s events will include a cocktail reception, remarks from the APS President, and an awards presentation.

2015 Annual Award Recipients

John and Emma Bonica Public Service Award
Bob A. Rappaport, MD

Wilbert E. Fordyce Clinical Investigator Award
Daniel J. Clauw, MD

Frederick W. L. Kerr Basic Science Research Award
Clifford J. Woolf, MD PhD

Jeffrey Lawson Award for Advocacy in Children’s Pain Relief
Céleste Johnston, DEd RN FCAHS
John C. Liebeskind Early Career Scholar Award
Adam T. Hirsh, PhD

Elizabeth Narcessian Award for Outstanding Educational Achievements in the Field of Pain
Scott M. Fishman, MD

Distinguished Service Award
Seddon R. Savage, MD MS

Kathleen Foley Journalist Award
Melanie Thernstrom


2014 Future Leaders Recipients

APS is pleased to announce the 2014 Future Leaders in Pain Grant Recipients.

Peter Grace, PhD
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO
Exacerbation of neuropathic pain by opioids: a role for TLR4 and inflammasomes
Sarah Linnstaedt, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
MicroRNA mechanisms mediating chronic pain development after motor vehicle trauma