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President's Message
First, Do No Harm (Hippocratic Oath)
A recent article in The Atlantic Monthly put into perspective the
huge responsibility we, as health care providers, have in staying
informed about the ever-evolving discoveries being made in
medicine and health care. "When the Evidence Says No But
the Doctors Say Yes" illustrated the challenges of incorporating
the latest research findings into practice, not just because our
understanding of conditions and treatments is constantly evolving
but also due to a slew of confounding factors such as expanding
technological advancements, institutional protocols that may be
slow to change, insurance coverage requirements, and, frankly, an
innate desire to proceed with business as usual as we manage a
great number of patients.
ASRA's responsibility to you as a member is to provide not only
the education about how to do your work but also to provide the
foundational research that guides why you do it. High-quality
outcome-based research guides every step of this process, not only
the why and how but
also whether what
you do is reimbursed
by insurance. Staying
on top of this is a
critical component
of our mission and
a critical component
of your practice. As
such, the ASRA Board
has approved and will be having the first strategic meeting of the
ASRA Research Committee, headed by Chair Stavros Memtsoudis,
MD, on September 22 at the ASRA National Office in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. At this meeting, key thought leaders will develop a
5-year master strategy for acute and chronic pain and present their
decisions to the ASRA Board.

ASRA currently offers two annual
meetings, three weekend courses,
and a wealth of resources in our
journal, newsletter, and website.
As a testament to the quality of our
programs, our first-ever "Introduction
to Perioperative Point-of-Care
Ultrasound" sold out months before
the event in February 2017 and
garnered a huge wait list. We will
have two offerings in 2018: February
24-25 in San Diego, California, and
December 1-2 in Chicago, Illinois.

Asokumar Buvanendran, MD
ASRA President

I also welcome all ASRA members to take advantage of our
early-bird registration deadline for the 16th Annual Pain Medicine
Meeting being held November 16-18 at Disney's Yacht and Beach
Club Resorts at Walt Disney World in Florida. The rooms are already
starting to fill, and this will be a great opportunity to combine a
family vacation
with your CME
learning, as the
location is just
steps from Disney's
Epcot Center. Visit
the meeting site
at www.asra.com/
pain.

"To emphasize the importance of ASRA's role in
advocating for improved patient outcomes through
our various education, research, and advocacy
efforts, we have officially changed our mission."

ASRA supports two research grants, the Carl Koller Memorial
Research Grant and the Chronic Pain Research Grant, with funding
of $200,000 available annually. We work hard to ensure that
the results of those grants are shared back with members, and
recipients are asked to submit their findings to the journal. We
encourage all members to support these research grants by making
a tax-deductible donation at http://www.asra.com/donate/submit.
Through your support, we can continue to work toward our shared
goals for the ultimate benefit of our patients.
For many ASRA members, keeping informed is one of the
biggest challenges, and our membership survey demonstrated
that with a number of people asking for more quick resources,
summaries of the latest findings, and interpretation of those
findings. These are all areas in which ASRA continues to work to
support you.

We work diligently to push out the latest information in a wide
variety of ways.
Here are a few other things you can do to connect to resources:
* Use the search button on our website to find content on your
desired topic. We have an extensive list of resources on the
"Resources" page, but the search button also enables you to
search through all of the ASRA News as well. Webcasts of select
sessions from the last meetings help you stay informed as well.
* Join a special interest group to find others with your same
areas of interest. Use the ASRA Membership Directory to find
other members and reach out to them.
* Follow @ASRA_Society on Twitter. Our active community
responds to questions regularly and opens the discussion to
more than 6,000 followers.
This informal exchange of information may work in the heat of
the moment, but if you need more information, ASRA's research
program offers a number of ways to be informed and contribute.
Even if you don't consider yourself a researcher, you have a way
to contribute to and benefit from the knowledge base twice a year
via abstract submissions to our annual meetings. (Abstracts for

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