Stephani Sutherland

This was super fun! What an amazing day full of luminaries, organized by @fadelzeidan.bsky.social in a gorgeous location - all day #brainimaging #chronicpain #painresearch #offsite #sfn2025 #ucsandiego #lajolla

Interested in #scicomm and finishing your #phd? It's time! Don't miss this amazing opportunity to apply for the @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social #massmedia fellowship. This is how I got my start with an internship at the @latimes.com - deadline is Jan 1! massmedia.secure-platform.com/a/organizati...

Enjoying day 2 of #sfn2025

Catch this month’s Notes on Pain eepurl.com/jrgTYU #painresearch

Heading to #SanDiego for #SfN #neuroscience? Be sure to come see a poster from Patrick Sadil, PhD, on the brain imaging data we're collecting for #a2cps. Sunday morning, board PP2 - Image processing in the Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures (A2CPS) project #painresearch

September 2025 Notes on Pain A monthly newsletter from Stephani Sutherland, PhD

The October issue of #NotesOnPain is out now! mailchi.mp/a09375ba44e0...

#icymi catch up on August before September drops! #notesonpain

The list of the latest published pain papers is out now on PRF! Dr. Qiufu Ma's curated list for August 15-21, 2025 and his choice for Editor's pick can be found here: painresearchforum.org/paper @iasp.bsky.social @nyupainresearch.bsky.social @utdpaincenter.bsky.social @sutherlandphd.bsky.social

I’ve resurrected my monthly newsletter, Notes on Pain eepurl.com/jh0VaM

Have you checked out the relaunch of PRF? Editors’ picks are selected by rotating editorial board members like @gregscherrer.bsky.social @painresforum.bsky.social

New books from outer space, future Earth, and close to home

Looking for a great summer read that's also sciencey? Check out @science.org's new book reviews, including one from me! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happening now! @usasp.bsky.social hosting a webinar: Pain Research in Peril: Why Your Voice Matters and What You Can Do Now, featuring experts Chris Veasley & Kate Nicholson - it's being recorded, with future opportunities for outreach. #painresearch

Seeing as I’m fully back to #freelance again I went to #HJ25 and I’m so glad I did - what a great day! #scicomm #healthcare #journo

Rockstar health #journo & #author @marynmck.bsky.social interviewing Dr. Jonathan Grein who leads a Federal special pathogens unit at @cedarssinai.bsky.social on past and emerging threats, protocols #HJ25

Is silencing pain neurons the ultimate goal? Do you see opportunities here to dampen their activity- and wouldn’t that be preferred? What does this say about its clinical use? 🤓

What a great and entertaining writing workshop with Steve Padilla of @latimes.com full of expert tips to make our stories sing. Bottom line: what’s the story? What you say is more important than how you say it. What fun! #HJ25 #freelance

Today at #HJ25 former #HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra implores us to keep reporting, and work to combat the stream of misinformation and disinformation coming directly from the new administration

As the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress and Chair Emerita of @capac.house.gov, I am disgusted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statement that the U.S. will 'aggressively' revoke visas for Chinese students.

Congrats!! This wonderful program is what started it all for me in #scicomm @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social @latimes.com This year's class will need a special kind of gumption. Be brave! I believe in you!

This exactly sums up our US science infrastructure, which has been built over a century and is the envy of the world, one of our nation’s greatest strengths. And it’s being destroyed right now.

WOOT!! Good news today - huge props to @usha.bsky.social named as next director of the Knight Science Journalism program @ksjatmit.bsky.social Usha was my first mentor in #scicomm #journalism in 2001 @latimes.com and I'm grateful for her to this day. She's been kicking ass ever since! #pulitzer

The NIH HEAL Initiative 2025 Annual Report: Research in Action | NIH HEAL Initiative

The last 2 weeks have been a blur, but sadly I'm no longer at the NIH. Working for #painresearch at the NIH was a great honor and the best job of my life. As part of this amazing team, I'm proud to have worked on the HEAL 2025 Annual Report - pls share! heal.nih.gov/about/nih-he...

Here is a link to the draft report; hopefully a finalized version is coming soon for sharing widely! heal.nih.gov/files/2025-0...

And it's unanimous! The NINDS Advisory Council has approved the HEAL pain research priority recommendations.

Great comments from council members, lots of energy around the idea I keep hearing: the need to educate the public, let people know what NIH researchers do, and the tremendous value of basic research leading to new treatments for #pain

...and another priority focused on building an evidence base for non-pharmacological therapies for pain and how to best use them, including understanding underlying biological mechanisms. These powerful treatments are used as trial and error; we need to know about dosing, timing.

Picked up by Co-Executive Chair Dr. Kathleen Sluka, describing the research priority to prevent the development of #chronicpain across the lifespan with biomarkers, better understanding of biology and #resilience

...and now Rob describing the ten broad, recommended research priorities, in no particular order. Support for building on the great success of HEAL with further discovery...

You bet. @robgereau.bsky.social giving an overview of the amazingly rapid process of developing these HEAL pain research recommendations, including a nod to our colleagues at the OPPP now gone from NIH. Also describing 5 core principles to be considered in all #painresearch

Happening now: NINDS Council public meeting, including presentation of the #HEAL #painresearch recommendations videocast.nih.gov/livew.asp?li...