About APS
Our Mission
The American Pain Society is a multidisciplinary community that brings together a diverse group of scientists, clinicians and other professionals to increase the knowledge of pain and transform public policy and clinical practice to reduce pain-related suffering.
The American Pain Society is a national chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). Founded in 1973, IASP is the largest multidisciplinary international association in the field of pain, bringing together scientists, clinicians, health care providers, and policy makers to stimulate and support the study of pain and to translate that knowledge into improved pain relief worldwide. Currently IASP has more than 6500 individual members from over 100 countries.
IASP publishes the journal PAIN, which features reviews, original research articles, clinical notes, and letters on both clinical and basic sciences. The World Congress on Pain is the biannual scientific meeting of the society and brings together thousands of the world's leading experts on pain as they share their thoughts, research and findings on this critical topic.