I challenge everyone at ASRA Pain Medicine to go to surgeongeneral.gov, print out my postcard or email it to your list serves to educate your friends, families, and colleagues about the steps we all can take at home to combat the opioid crisis. #ASRASpring19

The difference between success and failure is a great team. We had our 1st annual pain management center bowling tournament this weekend! Pictured here is an incredible team of nurses, docs, MAs, NAs, and PSCs! #teambuilding #bowling MD Anderson Cancer Center

Excellent talks at the 2nd interdisciplinary opioid crisis seminar!! Well concluded with “Meet the professor” panel.

I am grateful to my family, friends and the petiole I work with!

#oxymorphone immediate release can be used ATC every 8 hours for long acting pain control in cancer patients with gastrostomy tubes. #hpm #pallonc Marieberta Vidal MD Eduardo Bruno

Nice presentation Lakshmi Koyyalagunta, MD

"The assumption that 'less opioids is always better, for everyone,' is just as flawed as assuming that an opioid is right for everyone; absolutes in either direction confer risk," writes Beth Darnall, PhD in TheHillOpinion. stan.md/2Rga7B8

Congratulations and best wishes to our pain medicine fellows who celebrated the end of fellowship last night. ⁦Christina Le-Short⁩ fellowship director did an amazing job.

It is a learning experience both ways!!

Great initiative!!

An example of great leadership is Carin Hagberg, MD coming to a “Brown Bag Lunch” with our dept just to chat about our concerns and share what she is working on. Thanks to Uzondu Osuagwu, MD for picking up Thai food! #leadership #boss #EndCancer MD Anderson Cancer Center #medtwitter #WomenInMedicine

Many thanks to Dr. Pisters for providing an institutional update at the Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Medicine #DACCPM Division Grand Rounds this am. Oh my, the places we’ll go under his leadership. So inspiring! ⁦Peter WT Pisters, MD⁩ ⁦MD Anderson Cancer Center⁩

For those misled by the The New York Times that it’s all sunshine and roses for women in medicine, here is a rigorous study showing gender differences in compensation aren’t fully explained away by differences in hours worked (or many other factors). TIME'S UP Healthcare jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

“There’s no need to suffer. If you’re experiencing #pain, we’re here to help,” says our Uzondu Osuagwu, MD: bit.ly/32asImu #endcancer

Refine your airway skills at the TSAPhysicians Difficult Airway Workshop led by Drs. Carin Hagberg, MD and Radha Arunkumar. MD Anderson Cancer Center

Taught #myofascialrelease to pain docs this morning at Texas Pain Society meeting. I was happily surprised by the turnout! These early risers learned all about #MFR of the posterior chain for low back pain. Yoga Medicine ❤️ #fascia Texas Pain Society #painmedicine #MedEd #medtwitter

Great job on your presentation Dr Joseph Liao and your poster Dr. Dalya Elhady! Texas Pain Society #meded #medtwitter MD Anderson Cancer Center

Please check our latest manuscript PAIN Journal Thank you at Diane M. Novy, PhD Lakshmi Koyyalagunta, MD MD Anderson Cancer Center ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31693537

Juan P. Cata🇦🇷🇺🇸 PAIN Journal Lakshmi Koyyalagunta, MD MD Anderson Cancer Center I was honored to work with a wonderful team, Juan P. Cata🇦🇷🇺🇸 Lakshmi Koyyalagunta, MD and Drs Guptas and Nelson, on this important topic #cancer #cancerpain #opioid MD Anderson Cancer Center PAIN Journal

IASP has released a new definition for pain: “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage” This is a minor revision of the prior definition but with six key notes. bit.ly/2Ovk2lB