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PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Pain Res.
Sec. Veterinary and Comparative Pain
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpain.2025.1579155
Outcome Assessment in Veterinary Pain Studies: A Pain in Animals Workshop (PAW) Perspective
Provisionally accepted
Dottie Brown 1
Johann (Hans) Coetzee 2
Marie Gill 3 DP Mohapatra 3
Michael L. Oshinsky 3
Sheilah Robertson 4
B. Duncan X. Lascelles 5*- 1 Mars Veterinary Health, Vancouver, United States
- 2 Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States
- 3 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States
- 4 Lap of Love, Lutz, United States
- 5 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States
Biennially, the Pain in Animals Workshop (PAW) forum brings together scientists and clinicians to focus, across veterinary species and humans, on our shared passion of improving health through our ability to recognize and monitor pain. This collaboration has been instrumental in sharing current knowledge, identifying gaps, and aligning on the best paths forward in this challenging space. At the 2023 PAW held at the National Institutes of Health, Dr Dottie Brown delivered the inaugural Dr. Michele Sharkey PAW Lecture: “Outcome Assessment in Veterinary Pain Studies: The Yellow Brick Road Continues”. This perspectives article captures the content of that inaugural lecture and provides a reflection on how the PAW forums have been integral to the most recent wave of knowledge gain and awareness.
Keywords: Pain, Measurement, translational, Behavior, Therapeutic development
Received: 18 Feb 2025; Accepted: 18 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Brown, Coetzee, Gill, Mohapatra, Oshinsky, Robertson and Lascelles. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
B. Duncan X. Lascelles, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States
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