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.