The National Institutes of Health (NIH) invites you to attend a research workshop on sickle cell disease (SCD) pain and opportunities for optimizing the management of acute and chronic SCD pain. This virtual NIH workshop—Approaches to Effective Therapeutic Management of Pain for People with Sickle Cell Disease—takes place on July 21-22, 2021. Registration is required, and there is no charge. The workshop will be livestreamed and archived for future viewing.

The workshop is designed to:

• Discuss the current state of science in sickle cell disease acute and chronic pain as well as identify critical knowledge gaps and research challenges (Day 1), and
• Brainstorm challenges and opportunities for optimizing management of this understudied pain condition in an underserved population (Day 2).

The agenda includes expert presentations; panel and roundtable discussions; and patient perspectives. Effective, safe multicomponent and whole person treatments within a biopsychosocial context (i.e., that blends biological, psychological, and social factors) are topics to be explored.

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute are co-leading this meeting. Other NIH collaborators include the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and the National Institute of Nursing Research.