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Responding to Payne's remarks will be Dr. Marcus Martin , chairman of emergency medicine at the U.Va. In an editorial for the January 2000 Emergency Medicine , Martin discussed ethnic differences in pain tolerance and inquired about inequalities of treatment along racial lines. This program is co-presented with the Cancer Center , the Center for Palliative Care and the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the U.Va. She will discuss the harmful effects of unrelieved pain on cancer patients and their family caregivers, the effectiveness of nurse-administered intervention to improve cancer pain management and differences in pain relief attributable to gender. This program is co-presented with the U.Va.