The progression of pain from acute to chronic is complex and very often, avoidable. This video provides a bio-psychosocial overview of the “Chronification of Pain” and the opportunities for clinicians…

When a provider concludes that the benefits from continued opioid therapy are outweighed by the risks, they must initiate a discussion regarding collaborative tapering. This video provides several examples of…

The Pain Assessment Screening Tool and Outcomes Registry (PASTOR) is an IM/IT capability developed in the Military Health System to provide clinicians with pain-related patient reported outcomes and a…

The DHA Pain strategy incorporates the Stepped Care Model of Pain Management developed by the Veterans Health Administration. The Stepped Care Model provides a roadmap to providing appropriate level and…

Lance Cpl Sara Vanegas is a Marine with the Wounded Warriors Batallion East at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. She is a talented artist who is finding community through her art…

More than 500 health care leaders from around the Military Health System worldwide conducted the annual Joint Graduate Medical Education Selection Board at the Uniformed Services University from Nov. 18 to Nov.…

The annual Joint Graduate Medical Education Selection Board was held at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland the week of Nov. 18 – 22.

Defense Health Agency Director, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland speaks during a plenary session of the annual DHA Graduate Medical Education Selection Board meeting, Nov. 19, 2024, at the Uniformed…

A military medical leader asks a question of a presenter during the plenary session of the annual Joint Graduate Medical Education Selection Board held at the Uniformed Services University of the Health…

NASA and SpaceX are targeting late February 2025 for the launch of the agency’s next astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx. Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of…