FEATURES

• Addressing the Elephant in the Room: The Pain Blitz Initiative
  
  
• The Present Status of Fellowships in Pain Medicine
  
  
• Future Opportunities and Challenges in Pain Medicine
  
  
• The Future Is Now: Breakthroughs in Pain Research
  
  
• Evidence-Based Guidelines: ASA Needs to Change the Process of Guideline Creation or Risk Being Irrelevant in the Arena
  
  
• Trust, But Verify: Electronic Prescription Monitoring
  
  
• What a Pain Fellow Needs to Know to Successfully Enter Private Practice
  
  
• 2008 Elections Marked by Record Level of ASAPAC Activity

ARTICLES

• A Message From the Governance Unit: 2010 Committees
  
  
• 2008 Anesthesiology Resident Class Sizes and Graduates
  
  
• Nominations Sought for Award for Excellence in Research
  
  
• Nominations Sought for Presidential Scholar Award
  
  
• Announcement and Call for Abstracts: Annual Anesthesiology/FAER Joint Session
  
  
• Announcement and Call for Abstracts: Annual Journal Symposium

DEPARTMENTS

• From the Crow’s Nest
  A Christmas Wish
  
  
• Administrative Update
  Physician, Govern Thyself
  
  
• ASA Executive Office Report Change Is On the Way!
  
  
• Committee News
  ASA Endorsement of Simulation Programs Under Way
  
  
• Practice Management
  The Many Facets of the OIG Facet Report
  
  
• State Beat
  AMA House of Delegates Approves ASA’s Doctor of Nursing Practice Resolution
  
  
• Subspecialty News
  SCA: 31 and Still Growing
  
  
• Residents’ Review
  ASA Medical Student Component Reaches Out Across the Country
  
  Take the Next Step With Next Year’s Conference on Practice Management
  
  
• ASA News
  
  
• Letters to the Editor
  
  
• In Memorium
  
  
• FAER Report
  Recap of FAER Events at ASA Annual Meeting