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HELEN DEARMAN received her undergraduate degree from Loma
Linda University, School of Allied Health Professions, Department
of Respiratory Care. Ms. Dearman has chronic pain from a fall that
resulted in a broken back in three places. For fi fteen years her frac-
tures went undetected during which time she learned how to live
with chronic pain. To date, her treatments have been varied, includ-
ing eleven back surgeries and an intrathecal drug infusion pump.
Her personal experiences with pain led her to numerous experiences
working throughout the country with pain organizations dedicated
to helping people with chronic pain from the patient’s perspective.
She also hosted a weekly international internet radio show (Pain
Tamers on Voice America, 2004-2006), and patient conferences
(Houston’s fi rst patient-oriented “Living with Chronic Pain” confer-
ence with keynote Speakers Jerry Lewis and Patch Adams), and
lecturing/teaching. In her leadership role, she has participated in
numerous activities that include: Medtronic, Inc.’s media training
with Jerry Lewis for the Tame the Pain campaign; task force member
to the Texas Medical Center Pain and Palliative Care Group; and
speaker at state press conferences addressing the preferred drug list
for Medicaid patients and legislation regarding Medicaid patients
and their ability to receive pain medication. She is a guest faculty
on an interdisciplinary pain course offered by the University of Texas
Health Science Center at Houston. She has also been featured in
the March-April, 2004, issue of FDA Consumer Magazine, Manag-
ing Chronic Pain and the spring 2006 magazine issue of the Ameri-
can Society of Pain Educators, PainView. She has participated in a
PBS special, Second Opinion: Chronic Pain, hosted by Peter Salgo,
MD. She currently lives in Texas with her husband and has three
children and one grandson.
Birth Place
Souic Falls, SD USA
Accomplishments
National speaker on the subject of chronic pain
Co-Authored a support group leaders training manual
Teacher of the Year, Uintah Basin Applied Technical Center, Utah, 1990.
Guest panalist on PBS special "Second Opinion" hosted by Peter, Salgo, MD, 2006.
Featured article on "Living with Chronic Pain," FDA Consumer Magazine,"Managing Chronic Pain; March-April 2004
American Society of Pain Educators, PainView; spring, 2006
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