Optimizing Cancer Pain Evaluation and Management

  1. Behavioral Research Program
  2. Basic Biobehavioral and Psychological Sciences Branch (BBPSB)
  3. Multimorbidity and Cancer Control
  4. Optimizing Cancer Pain Evaluation and Management

This webinar series will explore understudied topics in cancer pain management with a focus on approaches to optimize cancer pain evaluation and management for all. The series is co-hosted by the NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences and Division of Cancer Prevention.

The target audience for this webinar series are basic and applied researchers and clinicians who study or intervene on cancer pain. The overarching goals for this webinar series are:

  1. Bridge knowledge gaps in conceptual models, sampling, and research designs and analysis
  2. Highlight understudied and emerging research in cancer pain management
  3. Examine mechanisms and predictors of severe cancer pain outcomes
  4. Consider opportunities for translation across the basic-applied continuum

Upcoming Events

October 22, 2026: Optimizing Cancer Pain Evaluation and Management webinar

Speakers

Marsha (M.J.) Kamsteeg, MSc

Technical Physician, PhD-candidate
Medical Oncology
Erasmus MC Cancer Institute

Kate L. Lapane, MS, PhD

Associate Dean, Population Health Science
Professor and Division Chief, Epidemiology
Graduate Program Director, Population Health Science
UMass Chan Medical School

Past Events

November 17, 2022: Cancer pain management for pediatric, adolescent, and young adult populations

Speakers

Michael McNeil, M.D., M.P.H.

Director, St. Jude Global Palliative Care Program
Clinical Instructor, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Michelle Fortier, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Director of Ph.D. Program
Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
University of California, Irvine
Co-Director, University of California Irvine’s Center on Stress & Health

Carla Strom, M.L.A.

Assistant Director of Operations
Office of Cancer Health Equity
Wake Forest Baptist Health

October 22, 2021: Psychological barriers to optimal evaluation and management of cancer pain

Speakers

Peter Mende-Siedlecki, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of Delaware

Nao Hagiwara, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Virginia Commonwealth University

Lauren Hamel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Oncology
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan

July 12, 2021: Healthcare System Approaches to Achieve Optimal Cancer Pain Management

Speakers

Karen Winkfield, M.D., Ph.D.

Executive Director, Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance

Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, Department of Radiation Oncology

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Niharika Dixit, M.D.

Associate Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology

Medical Director, Comprehensive Breast Cancer Program

Medical Director, Cancer Survivorship and Navigation Program

UCSF at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Simon Craddock Lee, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Associate Professor of Population & Data Sciences

Co-Leader, Population Science & Cancer Control

Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

April 9, 2021: System-level Approaches to Achieving Optimal Cancer Pain Management: Narrowing the Gap

Speakers

Salimah H. Meghani, Ph.D., M.B.E., R.N., F.A.A.N.

“Opioid Epidemic and Cancer Pain Care: Lessons from Converting Policies into Practice"

Professor of Nursing & Term Chair of Palliative Care

Associate Director, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health

Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

University of Pennsylvania

Suzanne Marmo, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., A.P.H.S.W.-C.

“Structural Inequity and Cancer Pain management policy: A Social Work Perspective”

Assistant Professor of Social Work

Sacred Heart University

Jonathan Purtle, Dr.P.H., M.Sc.

Associate Professor at Drexel University

Dornsife School of Public Health

March 1, 2021: Multilevel Approaches to Optimal Cancer Pain Management

Speakers

Darrell M. Gray, II, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.G.

Associate Professor
College of Medicine, The Ohio State University
Medical Director, Healthy Communities, OSUWMC
Chair, Health Equity Steering Committee, OSUWMC
Deputy Director, Center for Cancer Health Equity, OSUCCC-The James Cancer Hospital

Louis A. Penner, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
Department of Oncology
School of Medicine
Wayne State University
Population Studies and Disparities Research Program
Karmanos Cancer Institute

Judith Paice, Ph.D., R.N.

Director, Cancer Pain Program
Division of Hematology-Oncology
Research Professor of Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University