Healthy Women Publishes Final Report on Women-Focused Chronic Pain Summit Where Kulkarni Presented on Treatment Barriers

Healthy Women has published a final report on the organization’s July 2019 event, the Science, Innovation, and Technology Summit: Chronic Pain in Women— Focus on Treatment, Management and Barriers. Clinical professionals, researchers and policymakers, and representatives from federal agencies, industry, nonprofit organizations, and advocacy groups came together at the event to advance the dialogue on effective treatment and management of chronic pain in women. Shruti Kulkarni, JD presented at the summit and discussed how gender differences play a role in disease progression, effects of medications, and barriers to treatment. Specifically, she discussed the unique legal and societal barriers women face in obtaining medically necessary treatment, including lack of childcare and punitive attitudes towards pregnant and parenting women.