2024 UM Pain Short Course
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The 2024 UM Pain Short Course took place July 8 to July 9, 2024.
Martin Teicher, MD, PhD
Director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital
Martin Teicher, MD, PhD, has been director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital since 1988. He was chief of the former Developmental Psychopharmacology Laboratory (now the Laboratory of Developmental Neuropharmacology) and is currently an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is a member of several editorial boards, including the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Dr. Teicher is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation and the SMARTfit company, and a board member of organizations including the Trauma Research Foundation and the Board of Children, Youth and Families at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. He has served on or chaired numerous review committees for the National Institutes of Health, published more than 200 articles, and has been awarded 19 U.S. patents.
Dr. Teicher is the recipient of numerous honors. Recent awards include the Robert S. Laufer, PhD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and the Pierre Janet Writing Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
Daniel J. Clauw, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine/Rheumatology, and Psychiatry
Director, Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center
Co-Director, HEAL National K12 Clinical Pain Career Development Training Program
Professor Jacob Ablin
Director Internal Medicine T Department
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Professor Jacob Ablin is a specialist in General Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. He is head of Internal Medicine H at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, affiliated with the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University.
From 2002 to 2016, he was the director of the fibromyalgia clinic at the Institute of Rheumatology at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
Prof. Ablin was the first author of the Israeli guidelines for diagnosing and treating fibromyalgia, published in 2013. He was co-organizer of the first international symposium on fibromyalgia held at the Peres Center for Peace, Jaffa, Israel, in 2013, and since 2019, has been organizer co-chairman of a yearly international conference on controversies in fibromyalgia, held this year in Brussels, Belgium, together with Professor Piercarlo Sarzi – Puttini from Milan.
He is currently an elected member of the steering committees of the Israeli Society of Rheumatology and the Israeli Society of Internal Medicine.
His main clinical and research interests are the pathogenesis, genetics and epidemiology of fibromyalgia syndrome. However, he has also participated in groundbreaking genetic research, including a study on the cardiologic implications of a mutation in the Corin gene, recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine 1.
Baris Feldman H, Chai Gadot C, Zahler D, et al. Corin and left atrial cardiomyopathy, hypertension, arrhythmia, and fibrosis. New England Journal of Medicine 2023;389:1685-92.
Samuel McLean, MD, MPH
Professor of Psychiatry
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director of the UNC Institute for Trauma Recovery
UNC School of Medicine Institute for Trauma Recovery
Dr. Sam McLean is a professor and practicing emergency physician at the University of North Carolina, where he directs the Institute for Trauma Recovery. Dr. McLean’s research efforts focus on understanding and preventing neuropsychiatric sequelae after traumatic stress exposure, including posttraumatic pain and posttraumatic stress, depression, and somatic symptoms. Dr. McLean helps to coordinate several acute care-based research networks that perform observational and intervention studies to advance this work. These networks include the Better Tomorrow Network for sexual assault survivors and the AURORA research network for motor vehicle collision survivors.
Julie Carlsten Christianson, PhD
Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology
Departmental Vice Chair Cell Biology and Physiology
KU Medical Center The University of Kansas
Julie Christianson, PhD, is a Professor and Vice Chair of Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) in Kansas City, KS. She also directs the Neuroscience Graduate Program and the Chronic Pain Division of the Institute for Neurological Discoveries. Her research is focused on understanding the influence of early-life stress on the development of chronic pain and metabolic and affective disorders later in life. She has been continually funded by NIH since 2005 and currently holds an R01 investigating the efficacy of voluntary exercise for preventing or reversing the deleterious outcomes of early life stress. She serves on the editorial boards of Pain, Pain Research Forum, and Frontiers in Pain. She is NIH's chairperson for the KUFD (Kidney and Urological Systems Function and Dysfunction) study section. She served in several capacities in the former American Pain Society and is the chair of the Basic Science Committee for the Society for Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine, & Urogenital Reconstruction (SUFU).
Roger B. Fillingim, PhD
Associate Dean of Planning and Institutional Effectiveness
Distinguished Professor
Director of Pain Research and Intervention Center of Excellence
University of Florida College of Denistry
Roger B. Fillingim, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor in the University of Florida (UF) College of Dentistry and Director of the UF Pain Research & Intervention Center of Excellence. Dr. Fillingim earned his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in pain research at the University of North Carolina. His research investigates biological and psychosocial contributions to individual differences in pain, including the influences of sex/gender, race/ethnicity and aging on the experience of pain. For more than 12 years, Fillingim was a principal investigator for the OPPERA (Orofacial Pain: Prospective Evaluation and Risk Assessment) Study, a prospective cohort study designed to identify causal risk factors for the development of temporomandibular disorders and related chronic overlapping pain conditions. Dr. Fillingim also leads the multi-center UPLOAD (Understanding Pain and Limitations in Osteoarthritic Disease) study, which has investigated mechanisms underlying ethnic group differences in pain and disability among older adults with knee osteoarthritis (OA). The project’s current cycle tests the independent and combined effects of transcranial direct current stimulation and mindfulness meditation on pain processing and brain function in adults with knee OA.
Dr. Fillingim’s research has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1994, including a current MERIT award from the National Institute on Aging. He has published more than 450 peer-reviewed papers and has delivered plenary and keynote addresses at numerous international conferences. Dr. Fillingim also has served in national leadership positions, including a term as President of the American Pain Society (APS) from 2012-14, and he currently serves as Secretary/Treasurer for the International Mentoring Association.
Andrea L. Chadwick, MD, MSC, FASA
|Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative Medicine
Co-Director of the KUMC PhD program in Clinical and Translational Science
KU Medical Center The University of Kansas
Dr. Chadwick is an associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) and a special graduate faculty member in the departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology.
After receiving a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Kansas (KU) in 2001, Dr. Chadwick completed her medical degree at the KU School of Medicine in 2005. She then completed her residency in anesthesiology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), followed by a fellowship in pain medicine and a master of science in clinical research, both from UCLA in 2011. Dr. Chadwick is board-certified in both anesthesiology and pain medicine.
Dr. Chadwick is the founder and director of the Fibromyalgia and Centralized Pain Exploration (FACE) Lab at KUMC, which is committed to understanding the mechanisms of chronic centralized pain syndromes and developing novel therapeutic strategies. As of 2024, she also serves as Co-Director of the KUMC PhD program in Clinical and Translational Science.
Kushang Patel, PhD, MPH
Research Professor Department of Anesthesiology
University of Washington Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Kushang Patel, PhD, MPH, is a Research Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington and Associate Director of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center. He conducts epidemiologic research on pain, aging, and injury and clinical trials of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments of chronic pain. In addition, he partners with healthcare systems to conduct pragmatic trials that evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of behavioral interventions to improve pain management in primary care settings. Grants from the CDC and NIH support his research.
Adriene Beltz, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology
U-M Department of Psychology
Maggie Makar, PhD
Assistant Professor, EECS
Computer Science and Engineering
Michael S. Gold, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology
University of Pittsburgh
Laura Wandner, PhD
Program Director
Office of Pain Policy and Planning
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
Scholars
Abigail Helm, PhD
Ryan Pontiff, DPT, PhD
Mark Vorensky, DPT, PhD
Ryan Wexler, ND, MSCR
