Congratulations to Mallory Perry, BSN, RN, a School of Nursing PhD student, who has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the ENRS/Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science Dissertation Award. The award will be presented at the ENRS 30th Annual Scientific Sessions Anniversary Celebration Reception in Newark, NJ. Ms. Perry will receive $5,000 of funding in support of her research project, Assessing the Management of Pediatric Postoperative Pain with Genetics. Through this study Ms. Perry aims to examine: (1) relationships among pre-surgical behavioral, sociocultural and environmental factors, peripheral and central sensitivity measured by quantitative sensory testing, and mRNA expression levels of candidate pain sensitivity genes; (2) differential expression of pain sensitivity genes between adolescents who develop persistent post-surgical pain and those who do not; and (3) the influence of behavioral, sociocultural and environmental factors, postsurgical peripheral and central pain sensitivity, and mRNA expression of pain sensitivity genes on pain severity and interference over the postsurgical period.