Hype or hope for personalized pain medicine in an impersonal world: What do team science investigations have to offer?

Interdisciplinary team science to achieve health equity across the health spectrum and lifespan ID: 35839 “Hype or hope for personalized pain medicine in an impersonal world: What do team science investigations have to offer?”

The experience and management of pain creates, establishes and entrenches health disparities through impaired educational and work performance, disability, and lost opportunities, as well as diminished quality of life for individuals and families. Future socio-demographic, epidemiologic, and other public health projections indicate increasing need for evidence-based, person-centered, and preferably preventive pain management and culturally sensitive effective care. Within this context of population heterogeneity, multiple complex conditions and long lifespans, this paper question why there has been a lack of progress in pain research. The authors present an historical view of pain, differences in sensitivities, various research discipline approaches (pharmaceutical, dental, nursing, medicinal, complementary and integrative medicine, genomic, etc), and pain management. Briefly, this paper reviews why previous single or mono-disciplinary approaches to pain have failed and have done so with large quantities of iatrogenesis. Promising multi and interdisciplinary pain management and pain prevention research-lines will be presented based on the state of the science at the NIH and through partnerships. Opportunities for multi and interdisciplinary collaborative pain research will be explored from both the population health benefit and personalized care perspectives.

•List three pain disparities (differences how pain is experienced by subpopulations) that hamper health equity. •Describe past current attempts to manage pain symptomotology. •Explain how multi and interdisciplinary teams are working toward solutions for pain.