Leadership is key to addressing the gaps in

untreated and undertreated pain.

You are here… at this conference.

Clearly, you ARE a leader in pain matters.

Wouldn’t the credentials

“MS-PREP” complete the picture?

2011 Tufts University PREP Graduates

INCREASE your value

in the workplace.

SEAL yourleadership

in pain matters.

Pain Research, Education and Policy Program

PREP The first and still, only multidisciplinary

postgraduate pain curriculum of its kind in the United States.

Tufts UniversitySchool of Medicine

Public Health @ TuftsBoston, Massachusetts

Full Master’s degree

MS-PREP

11 credits/11 courses

Certificates of Advanced Graduate Study

C-PREP 5 credits/5 courses

Certificates of Advanced Graduate StudySpecifically for

Occupational Therapists

OT-PREP 5 credits/5 courses

Chinese Acupuncture Studies – Pain Management Track

CAS-PM9 PREP credits/9 PREP courses

Dual Master’s Programwith

New England School of Acupuncture

PREP distance learning is COMING in 2012!

We are planning to launch online courses… which ones depend on YOU! We are looking for your input to craft the plan. COMPLETE OUR SURVEY!!

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Dan Carr, MDGlobal Thought Leader

in Pain Studies

“At PREP, we graduate a diversity of experts who go on to advance knowledge

and train others in a range of clinical and

public health settings.”Dan Carr, MD

PREP Program Director

A graduate degree. A bridge to advance

your career.

Institute of Medicine Report June 2011

“PAIN IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE.”

PAIN EDUCATION IS A PUBLIC HEALTH

IMPERATIVE. PREP Program is here

to contribute.

PREP

Improving the world of pain problems, one student at a time.

PREP’s Conceptual Model

Pain Core Motivation

ResearchSupra-individual Model

EducationResearch Translated

PolicySocial Change

PAIN

Pain is the core… the starting point…

RESEARCH

Understanding pain requires research that

is supra-individual.

PREP Speaker 2011Rollin “Mac” Gallagher, MD, MPH

DIRECTOR, Pain ManagementPhiladelphia VA

Integrated pain care and delivery research is a current priority at the VA and DoD.

Translating bench

research to make an impact

on systems of care requires

LEADERSHIP...READY??

EDUCATION

Research is lost if not translated into education.

Education is both PREPs PURPOSE

&PREPs DELIVERABLE

WHY? to impact change

and improve the pain landscape

WHAT? ~strengthen student’s leadership~ strengthen student’seducational skills

DELIVERABLE

Leaders implement and

influence CHANGE

LEADERS areChange Agents

CHANGE AGENTS are Leaders

Change Agent as CATALYST

Change Agent as RESOURCE LINKER

Change Agent as SOLUTION GIVER

Change Agent As PROCESS HELPER

Develop competencies in educational theory.

Deliver pain programs thatimpact behavior.

PREP as the vehicle for YOUR education...

Learn alongside students from every discipline. PREP offers a TRUE interdisciplinary learning environment.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS

ACUPUNCTURISTS

NURSES

MSWs

PHARMACISTSDENTISTS

MDs

Students include….

INSURANCE ANALYSTS

PHARMA ANALYSTSRESEARCHERS

HEALTH ADVOCATES

MASSAGE THERAPISTS

POLICY

PREP prepares pain leaders

to effect social change.

PREP graduates are making a difference through influencing

enlightened, population-based

health policies.

Two graduates from PREP – one effecting global pain policy with Partners in Health and another effecting pain policy for a pharma company.

PREP HAS ACCOMPLISHED, RENOWNED, INTERDISCIPLINARYFACULTY WITH

REAL WORLD PAIN EXPERIENCE

See some of ourfaculty… see some

of our courses.

Daniel B. Carr MD, FABPM

Libby Bradshaw, DO, MS

Richard Glickman-Simon, MD

Ewan McNicol, RPh, MS-PREP

Steven J. Scrivani, DDS, D.Med.Sc.,

Carol P. Curtiss, MSN, RN-BC

Harris Berman, MDDean, Tufts School of Medicine

Christina Spellman from Mayday Fund visiting PREP offices.

PREP speaker: Henrik Kehlet, MD.April 2011 – shared exciting surgical

research on Rapid Recovery.

Author of THE PAIN CHRONICLES

Melanie Thernstrom (center)

PREP Speaker 2011

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Wendy Williams PREP Associate Director

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Assistant Director

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