Each year Pain School International offers a limited number of partial Scholarship opportunities to some excellent board certified physicians living and practicing in developing countries. The goal of the program is to improve chronic pain management in the physician’s home country.
Applicants will be evaluated by their proven commitment and dedication to pain management and their financial need.
NEW in 2023-24: Jim Heavner Scholarship kindly offered by Kenneth Chapman, MD.
Dr. Heavner was the founding director of the anesthesiology research program at Texas Tech Health Science Center and travelled globally to consult, teach, and lecture on the management of pain and the pharmacology of local anesthetics. For more than 35 years, he published research articles to advance the medical specialty of pain management, contributed to several textbooks, and helped develop and coordinate an international examination for the credentialing of pain specialists. He was active in many professional organizations and served on the editorial board of several professional journals. Dr. Heavner served as the Registrar for the Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) and Certified Interventional Pain Sonologist (CIPS) Examinations at World Institute of Pain from the program’s beginning in 2001 until his death. The Texas Pain Society named a lectureship for Dr. Heavner in recognition of his contributions.