Benefits of Chronic Pain Self-Management Webinar

Millions of patients live with chronic pain. The Chronic Pain Self-Management Program helps people and their caregivers manage their symptoms, improve their quality of life and reduce health care costs. Join us on Thursday, April 22 at 3:00 PM MDT, 1:00 PM AKDT and 11:00 AM HST to learn how the program works and how you can offer this program within your communities.

Guest speaker: Kate Lorig, Dr.P.H.

Kate served as the director of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center and professor of medicine in the Stanford School of Medicine. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing at Boston University, and her masters and doctorate of public health in health education at the University of California, Berkeley. She came to Stanford in 1979 while a graduate student at Cal to develop and research an educational program that emphasized self-help skills for people with arthritis. This program became the Arthritis Self-Help Course and was the prototype for the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program, The Diabetes Self-Management Program, the Positive Self-Management Program for HIV, the Cancer: Thriving and Surviving Program, the Building Better Caregiver’s Program, the Chronic Pain Self-Management Program and others. She has authored several books and many articles about arthritis, chronic disease in general, health education and behavioral science.