Working across disciplines to minimize pain and reduce the impact of addictive opioid drugs
One of the basic tenets of medicine is the lessening of pain, and unfortunately for many, has led to an epidemic in the use of powerful and addicting analgesics known as opioids.
Michigan Medicine researchers are leading the field in researching evidence-based ways to more responsibly prescribe these drugs and to help patients living with opioid use disorders. Our scientists are also actively exploring effective alternative pain relievers that can help people live lives with less suffering.
Michigan Medicine is home to several initiatives dedicated to researching opioids and pain:
Academic Director Ambulatory Psychiatry
Psychiatry
Clinical Professor of Radiology and Section Head
Cardiothoracic Radiology
Medical Student Clerkship Director, Orthopaedic Surgery
Chair, Department of Cardiac Surgery
Co-Director, Frankel Cardiovascular Center
Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Gardner C Quarton Collegiate Professor of Neurosciences in the Molecular and Behavioral Neurosciences Institute
Professor of Psychiatry and Research Professor
Michigan Neuroscience Institute
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Medical Director, MPLAN
Medical Director, UMMG
Program Assistant, Resident Research, Orthopaedic Surgery
Professor of Internal Medicine and Research Professor
Institute of Gerontology
Neurology
Program Associate, Urology
Senior Medical Director, FGP Operations
UMMG Ambulatory Surgery
Residency Program
Core Educational Lead
Department of Biological Chemistry
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Department of Learning Health Sciences
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Emergency Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery