SUCCESS STORIES OF THE MAYDAY PAIN & SOCIETY FELLOWSHIP
Established in 1992, the Mayday Fund is dedicated to further Shirley Steinman Katzenbachís commitment to social and medical causes. Her special interest in the treatment of pain forms the core of the Fundís mission. Over the last fourteen years, Mayday has supported many different projects, among them, surveys of public attitudes to pain and its treatment, role model and documentation programs, assistance to public and professional advocacy groups, and clinical and academic research.
On the Advisory Committee for the Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship are Chair Russell K. Portenoy, M.D.; James Campbell, M.D., Professor of Neurosurgery and Vice Chairman of the Department at Johns Hopkins Hospital; Scott Fishman, M.D., Professor of Anesthesiology and Director, Division of Pain Medicine at the University of California, Davis; Kathleen M. Foley, M.D., Chief of the Pain Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; David E. Joranson, MSSW, Senior Scientist and Director of the Pain and Policy Studies Group at the University of Wisconsin Medical School; Patrick John McGrath, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Dalhousie University Medical School; Joan Teno, M.D., M.S., Professor of Community Health and Medicine, and Associate Director of the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at the Brown Medical School; and Lonnie Zeltzer, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Director of the Pediatric Pain Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California at Los Angeles..