Job ads can be posted as well as news items and gripes, among other things. You do have to be a member of the electronic mailing list to directly e-mail the group. We created the electronic mailing list to help further everyone's work on the study of pain and hope that this approach will translate to many of these people becoming active APS members through this electronic association. Attendees are invited to share their latest work with others in a low-key, social atmosphere. At the top of many such lists, though, is the vision of John Bonica, MD, who believed that by communicating with one another and working as a multidisciplinary team, we could best treat or develop treatments for the patient in pain.
Researchers are an integral part of that team.
Developing an ongoing dialogue through which we really talk with one another will help to better direct our research toward clinical relevance as well as teach us new aspects of our fields. This is our opportunity to speak with scientists and clinicians with vastly different techniques, experiences, and resources from our own. Discussing common problems in this atmosphere may provide synergy and facilitate new approaches from outside of the box. During the APS Annual Scientific Meeting we also have the unique opportunity to meet in a smaller, more conducive atmosphere than at the annual Society for Neurosciences meeting. The APS meeting could develop to provide networking at its finest.