Congratulations to Principal Investigator Jacques E. Chelly, MD, PhD, MBA, who will receive funding to establish a Center of Excellence with Heron Therapeutics. This multidisciplinary center will be dedicated to education and research related to perioperative pain management with a special focus on non-opioid approaches and minimization of opioid prescription. The current funding will support a pilot program entitled “Pennsylvania Center of Opioid Prescribing Stewardship (P-COPS),” a collaborative effort between anesthesiologists and surgeons, including Drs. Aman Mahajan and Shiv Goel (Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine); Benjamin Davies and Bruce Jacobs (Urology), and Matthew Holtzman (Surgical Oncology). The goal is to optimize opioid prescription during the perioperative period, including after discharge, through the education and monitoring of patients, surgeons, anesthesiologists, and other health care professionals. The program will initially develop at UPMC Shadyside with the goal is to secondarily expand to UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, UPMC Passavant, and other UPMC hospitals.