"The key to meet the patient´s needs for adequate pain management is awareness and the tool for awareness is implementing pain medicine as a mandatory cross-sectional field of teaching in the undergraduate and postgraduate education. Such an initiative should be multidisciplinary and multi-professional."


Dr. Andreas Kopf
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Dept. of Anesthesiology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité University Medicine}

Visiting Professor, Dept. of Medical Physiology, University of Nairobi, Kenia / Sprecher, Arbeitskreis „Schmerzmedizin weltweit“ der DGSS, Developing Countries Taskforce der NeuPSIG.