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APS Bulletin • Volume 17, Number 1, 2007
In Memoriam
Annabel Edwards, a past president of American Society of Pain Management Nursing (ASPMN), passed away on November 18, 2006, at the age of 56.
A nationally recognized expert on pain management, Edwards served as ASPMN President and Board Director, as well as a member of the society’s conference planning and clinical practice committees. She wrote and presented extensively on pain management.
Abraham “Al” Sunshine, MD, a pioneer in clinical pain research, passed away on January 2, after a long battle with cancer.
Sunshine served since 1956 as a faculty member at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. He became professor of clinical medicine in 1975, a position that he held for 30 years. Among his many medical accomplishments, Sunshine served as chair of the medical board of NYU Medical Center-Tisch Hospital in New City.
According to Martin J. Blaser, MD, chair of NYU’s department of medicine, Sunshine will be remembered as a devoted teacher, an outstanding clinician, and a warm friend and colleague.
Sunshine’s associate Mitchell Charap, MD, eulogized him as “a thoughtful clinician who had a great love for the field. His patients adored him because he understood both the science and the psychology of caring for them.” Charap expressed overwhelming gratitude for having been appointed the first Abraham Sunshine Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine in the mid-1990s.