North American Pain School

How does chronic pain impact an artist’s style and craft? Check out this conversation between @napainschool.bsky.social Patient Partner @sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social and Science Communicator @shirinshs.bsky.social discussing the creation of #ArtDespitePain bit.ly/4onsZMW #PRF #NAPS2025

How can you feel “grounded” when your body is in pain? Check out this conversation where @napainschool.bsky.social Patient Partner @quanamadison.bsky.social and Science Communicator @shirinshs.bsky.social discuss how art helped to find power in her own story bit.ly/4navXTQ #PRF #NAPS2025

🎤 Call for Symposia Proposals topics related to clinical practice, basic science or mechanisms, and translational research related to pain. Ideally, presentations include multiple disciplines.

The deadline to submit proposals is October 15, 2025

Have you ever wondered what it is like to speak with a faculty member at @NAPainSchool.bsky.social? Check out this interview between Daniela Maria Escobar Espinal and Kirsty Bannister today! bit.ly/4gO5TMF #PRF #ScienceCommunicators

#NAPainSchool Interviews📰 Check out our interview with
@sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social, patient partner and artist, courtesy of NAPS Science Communicator
@shirinshs.bsky.social from @mcgill.ca

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🎉Introducing the SKIP Resource Commons!🎉

Come explore our new and improved one-stop-shop, where you can get SKIP’s evidence-informed resources for children's pain management, all in one place! Start exploring today! 👉
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#ItDoesntHaveToHurt

#NAPainSchool Interviews📰 Check out our interview with @quanamadison.bsky.social, patient partner and artist, courtesy of NAPS Science Communicator @shirinshs.bsky.social from @mcgill.ca.

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Our new paper is out! @ghasemloulab.bsky.social

The cover art was created by @quanamadison.bsky.social
inspired by her own experiences with chronic pain. It all started with a chat at the back of a taxi while at @napainschool.bsky.social and ended up with a beautiful piece of art.

🚀 Now Open: CPN Social Media Hack-a-thon 2025/2026
Calling all pain research trainees in Canada!

✨ Why join?
• Gain knowledge mobilization and social media skills
• Build your CV with a tangible project
• Network with peers, mentors & patient partners
🗓️ Oct. 6, 2025
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Our study investigating a HOME-BASED sensory testing tool-kit in youth undergoing surgery with regional anesthesia is now published in RAPM! See our summary below⬇️
FREE: rapm.bmj.com/content/earl...

📣 NOW OPEN: ICOD 2026 Call for Submissions

Want to present your med. appropriateness & deprescribing work to international peers and leaders in the field?
Submit your scientific abstracts, workshops, panels, and seminars before Oct 15: www.deprescribingnetwork.ca/icod2026

#NAPainSchool News 📰 Kirsty Bannister @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, discusses her research, her experience as a woman in science, her advice for trainees, and much more with @danielamesc.bsky.social

📑 👉 northamericanpainschool.com/interviews/

#painresearch #painschool #WomeninSTEM

#NAPainSchool News 📰 Check out our interview with Clifford Woolf, courtesy of NAPS Science Communicator Julia Nickols @j-nickols.bsky.social.

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📣 Help shape the future of pediatric pain care! SKIP is building a new strategic plan + implementation guide — and we want your input. 💬

Take the survey before Sept 15 + enter to win a prize pack! 🎁
🔗 tinyurl.com/mry746kb
#ItDoesntHaveToHurt

🚺 Dr. @jeffreymogil.bsky.social was invited to discuss with and Dr. Gillian Einstein during The Fifth Wave podcast, about gender bias in #MedicalResearch and potential solutions.

🎙️👉 open.spotify.com/episode/4Ycc...

Acute aerobic exercise intensity does not modulate pain potentially due to differences in fitness levels and sex effects: results from a pharmacological fMRI study Exercise intensity alone does not differentially reduce pain, but individual factors like fitness level and sex, along with opioid mechanisms, may influence exercise-induced pain relief.

Our paper is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Acute aerobic exercise intensity does not modulate pain potentially due to differences in fitness levels and sex effects: results from a pharmacological fMRI study (with @christianbuchel.bsky.social and Tahmine Fadai). Read it here: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

"A Day in the Life" with: Visual Artist Sandra Woods Sandra Woods turned to painting to manage chronic pain and became a nationally recognized watercolour artist.

WIASC artist @sandrawoods_creative_arts is featured this week in the Montreal Guardian news for her #watercolour painting & her #ArtDespitePain initiative 🗞 📰
You can read the profile at:
montrealguardian.com/montreal-art...

🎉 The #PxP25 (For Patients, By Patients) virtual conference is back!
A free event on patient engagement in health research, designed to meet patient needs and supported by an international committee of patient partners.

🎟️ pxphub.org/event/free-t...

Event supported by CIHR-IMHA

Congratulations to Yenisel Cruz-Almeida @yeniselca.bsky.social, #NAPainSchool Executive Committee member and Jennifer Daly-Cyr @jendalycyr.bsky.social previous patient partner attenting NAPS on being awarded the The Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship: Communicating Science & Improving Care 2025-2026!

@pavi-andrea.bsky.social @zhaoxingwei.bsky.social

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@tusar1992.bsky.social @hea6ther.bsky.social @cbannerman.bsky.social @jeffreyboon3.bsky.social @katybraden.bsky.social @sarahcrowards.bsky.social @justinedol.bsky.social @jonathanenders-phd.bsky.social @danielamesc.bsky.social @drednaevington.bsky.social

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🚨 NAPSter Alert! We’re just 6 feedback forms away from preserving our legendary 10-year streak of 100% completion. Don’t be that person in NAPS history. 🫣 Spare us 3 minutes and your thoughts . Your feedback matters to us, especially @jeffreymogil.bsky.social !

Check it out! Dr. Juliet Mwirigi hosts a lively discussion with a panel of leading migraine researchers and clinicians. What successes have we had in understanding and treating it and what challenges do we still face?

Produced by Lite Yang and Dr. Adam Dourson.

Listen here: tinyurl.com/397vvar5

Don't forget to fill out #NAPainSchool evaluation survey! Your feedback is important not only to improve NAPS, but will also help us produce our sponsor report! 📝
💌Check your emails!

Join our member Prof. @jeffreymogil.bsky.social (@mcgill.ca) for his lecture “Pain, Sex, and Death”: sex and gender differences in relation to various aspects of #pain.

📆 Today, July 14, at 2 p.m., on Zoom 👉
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@cogsresearch.bsky.social

Any #NAPainSchool grads in the US interested in this?
#chronicpain
@napainschool.bsky.social

“Patient partnership is fundamentally about the democratization of science.”
📢 Must read @thejournalofpain.bsky.social piece by Katie Birnie & Alexandra Neville shows how patient partnership is essential to advance pain research. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2p6xjtjs #ItDoesntHaveToHurt

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Hey #NAPSters and everyone who attended #NAPainSchool this year! Please take a bit of time to fill out our survey! We need your feedbacks to improve NAPS for years to come. Such retroactions are vital since we rely on your opinions & impressions of the event to steer future decisions regarding NAPS.

What an incredible week we had in Montebello! 🍁

Huge thanks to everyone who attended #NAPainSchool, to our sponsors and to Fairmont Le Château Montebello team who made this event once again successful and unforgettable!