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Event Details
- Event: Caring for Our Military: Considering Nondrug Therapies for Pain
- Event Type: Seminar (Webinar)
- Topic: Pain Treatment in Military and Veteran Populations
- Lecture: Mary Jo Larson, Ph.D., M.P.A., senior scientist at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.
- Contact: June 4th Lecture to Explore Pain Treatment in Military and Veteran Populations
- Sponsor: NCCIH
- Venue: NIH campus
- Location: hybrid
- Registration Link: internal:/
- Other Information: Dr. Larson’s research focuses on improving health care systems for military members and veterans. The previous speaker in this series, Erin Krebs, M.D., M.P.H., discussed “Reframing the Primary Care Management of Chronic Pain” on April 23; her lecture is also available on the NIH Videocast Web site.
Description of Event
On Monday, June 4, at 11 a.m. to noon ET, Mary Jo Larson, Ph.D., M.P.A., will deliver a lecture on “Caring for Our Military: Considering Nondrug Therapies for Pain,” as part of NCCIH’s Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series. Her talk will discuss pain treatment in the U.S. Military Health System, including innovations, trends towards nondrug treatments, and findings from her NCCIH-funded research on soldiers returning from deployments.