Abstract: Chronic pain is a growing global public health challenge, the leading cause of years lived with disability and significantly impacts various aspects of life, including participation in working life. The EAPER-trial evaluated the efficacy of a person-centred intervention at home, consisting of a combined telephone support and eHealth platform, persons on sick leave due to chronic pain. Despite having to end the trial before reaching the targeted number of participants, results were significant, favoring the intervention. This panel brings together researchers and a patient research partner that have worked on the EAPER-trial to explore what made the trial show significant results when so many similar person-centered interventions have struggled to do so and what we can learn and bring to future projects. The panel will be moderated by Lilas Ali. She has been involved in the design and evaluation of several previous person-centred interventions. This experience will guide the discussion to draw out key learnings, gaps, and future directions that can be brought into person-centered research. Presentations include: Mari Lundberg has extensive knowledge of chronic pain and experience of being the PI for several person-centred interventions for people with chronic pain. She will present insights and key learning from these. Sara Wallström is the PI in the project will present about the project and previous interventions she has been involved in, which the project was inspired by. Åse Lundin was actively involved in conducting the EAPER-trial and will share lessons from this as well as results from the trial. Veronica Lilja will present findings from process evaluations and collaboration with research partner in the EAPER-trial.The panel will conclude with a moderated discussion on experiences from the intervention and what we can learn from it and bring into the design of future intervention.