NIH-DoD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory – 

Adam Anicich is the Special Advisor and Investor Engagement Manager at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and was appointed Vice Chairman of the Interagency Veterans Advisory Council. Anicich, an Iraq War Veteran from the US Army’s 101^st  Airborne Division, has dedicated his life to Serving Veterans.

Anicich also serves on a number of executive committees at the Department of Veterans Affairs where he helps guide research strategy, strategic goals, performance measurement, clinical best practices, and funding priorities for traumatic brain injury, pain management, and patient engagement. These include the Pain Research, Informatics, Multimorbidities, and Education Executive Steering Committee (PRIME), Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research Executive Steering Committee (CCDOR), and the former Improving Pain-Related Outcomes for Veterans Executive Committee (IMPROVE), as well as a few that are awaiting funding approval.

Prior to his appointment with the SEC, Anicich oversaw congressional and legislative affairs for the Department of Veterans Affairs in The Capitol – receiving and resolving more than 25,000 congressional inquiries annually and negotiating an operating budget of more than $160 billion – followed by two years as the Director of External Coordination and Chief Appropriations Officer at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Department of Homeland Security. He previously held leadership positions at the Department of Commerce, Missile Defense Agency, and spent six years in the private sector at two southern California banks. Anicich received a bachelor’s degree and Master of Business Administration from Saint Leo University, completed three years towards a Doctorate in Management at the University of Maryland, and obtained an LLM certificate in securities and financial regulation from Georgetown University Law Center.

Anicich developed and chairs the Patient Resource Group for the NIH-DoD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory, which is comprised of eleven (11) large-scale, multisite, pragmatic clinical trials that focus on implementation and evaluation of nonpharmacological approaches for the management of pain and common co-occurring conditions in Military and Veterans healthcare systems. Anicich is also a consultant on patient engagement in healthcare research to Yale University and the University of Minnesota’s School of Medicine.

In supporting the Veterans Community, Adam continues to focus on ensuring policy-makers in DC are meeting the needs of Veterans and their families nationwide.