Our Beginnings

Our Staff

Our Advisory Panel

About Us

Pain Solutions magazine is a joint effort between our founders and a passionate team of staff and writers, an incredible advisory board of experts in pain management, supportive advertisers and most importantly, our readers. 

Our Staff

Kimberly G. Brock, APR, President & Co-Founder

Kimberly Brock is the co-founder and publisher of Pain Solutions magazine, a publication of Brock & Strickland Media Group, of which she is president.With a master’s degree in mass communication and a national accreditation in public relations, Brock began her career in advertising and media relations,which led to a position as the National Sales and Marketing Director for JuiceBowl Products, a juice and beverage development and manufacturing operation. She then became executive director of a regional nonprofit, Drug Prevention Resource Center, and most recently served as President/CEO of the Community Foundation of Greater Lakeland, the largest philanthropic funding source in central Florida. Under Brock's leadership, the organization raised morethan $60 million in her three-year tenure. Brock lives in Lakeland, Florida, with her husband, Jonathan, and two daughters.

Lisa Davis, Acting Editor-in-Chief, Pain Solutions magazine

Brenda Sawyer, Vice President of Sales & Marketing

Susan Tauster, Director of National Advertising

James Lung, Art Director, Pain Solutions and The Patient magazine

Diana Young-Stewart, Production Director

Mary Beth Sammons, Community/Site Editor, painsolutionsmagazine.com

Anne Gollert, Marketing Designer; Art Director, The Patient magazine

Lisa Szymanski, Production Associate

Michael Shaw, Researcher

Our Advisory Panel

David Brushwood, R.Ph., J.D. Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, University ofFlorida, Gainesville, Florida

David S. Craig, Pharm.D., B.C.P.S. Director, Pain and Palliative Care Specialty Residency, Psychosocial,Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida

Sean Harvey, D.O. Pain management expert, Lakeland Regional Medical Center,Lakeland, Florida

Angela Huskey, Pharm.D. Pain management specialist, Apollo Beach, Florida

Rowe Jones Author of Happy with Pain

Sunil J. Panchal, M.D. President, National Institute of Pain and the COPE (Coalition for Pain Education) Foundation, Tampa, Florida

Steven D. Passik, Ph.D. Director of Pharmacology Studies and associate attending psychologist, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City

Steve Templin, D.O.M., L.Ac., Natural Medicine Center of Lakeland, Lakeland, Florida

Robert Yezierski, Ph.D. Professor and Director, Comprehensive Center for Pain Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida