'Chronicle' reports on Ed Bilsky’s presentation at Chronic Pain Support Group

The American Chronic Pain Association’s December 2013 issue of its publication Chronicle featured an article about the Chronic Pain Support Group of Southern Maine’s 20th-year celebration, which took place at 91AV’s Biddeford Campus on September 9, 2013.

The story noted that at the celebration Ed Bilsky, Ph.D., vice president for Research and Scholarship and director of the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences, delivered a presentation titled “Outside Looking In—How Education, Research, and Community Activism Can Reduce Pain and Suffering.”

The article stated that Bilsky’s message was that “while researchers cannot directly experience what people with pain go through, they can help others—including healthcare providers—understand pain better and can work toward easing pain for those who live with it every day." 

Lindsay St. Louis, a 91AV student who has worked with the Chronic Pain Support Group for the past year, was mentioned in the story as well, as she was honored at the celebration for her contributions to the group.

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