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What is the Current Role of Opioid Therapy in Pain Management? A Multidisciplinary Panel Discussion. Mark Wallace, MD (Moderator)
Mark Sullivan, MD
Amy Bohnert, MD
Charles E Argoff, MD
Christin Veasley
Contributors
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Mark Sullivan, MD PhD
Dr. Sullivan received his MD and his PhD in philosophy from Vanderbilt University. After completing an internship in family medicine at University of Missouri, he completed a residency in psychiatry at the University of Washington in 1988. He is now Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences as well as Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington. He has served as attending physician in the UWMC Center for Pain Relief for 30 years. He has done clinical research on opioid therapy for chronic pain for the past 15 years. He has published over 275 peer-reviewed articles. He has a book published by Oxford University Press, "The Patient As Agent of Health and Health Care."
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Amy Bohnert, PhD, MHS
Amy S. B. Bohnert, Ph.D., M.H.S. is an Associate Professor and Research Investigator in mental health services research at the University of Michigan with training in public health who focuses her research on epidemiology and brief interventions regarding substance use and related disorders. She has demonstrated a particular expertise in applying epidemiology methods to the analysis of electronic health records-based datasets to answer important questions for health services delivery. Dr. Bohnert earned her Ph.D. in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and completed her postdoctoral fellowship with the Department of Veterans Affairs, National Serious Mental Illness Treatment Research and Evaluation Center in Ann Arbor, MI.
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Charles Argoff, MD
Dr. Argoff specializes in pain management with an emphasis on assessing and treating chronic headaches and neuropathic pain at Albany Medical Center. He is a Professor of Neurology at Albany Medical College and is board certified in neurology and pain medicine. After completing medical school at Northwestern University, Dr. Argoff completed an internship in internal medicine at Stony Brook, a residency in neurology at Stony Brook and a fellowship in neurology at the National Institutes of Health. Internationally recognized for his work, he is a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain, American Academy of Pain Medicine, and American Academy of Neurology, is the Neuropathic Pain Section Co-Editor for Pain Medicine and serves on the editorial board of the Clinical Journal of Pain.
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Christin Veasley
Christin Veasley – CPRA Co-founder and Director has lived with chronic pain since surviving a near-fatal accident in her teens. Her health experiences led her to pursue a bachelor of science degree, time conducting neuroscience research at Johns Hopkins Medical School and to the research advocacy community. Her life’s work has been to advocate for the acceleration of rigorous multidisciplinary pain research and the translation of research findings into meaningful change for people with chronic pain – with a special emphasis on pain conditions that are common in women and frequently co-occur. She has been a passionate advocate at the Congressional and federal agency levels for bringing about public awareness of the profound impact of chronic pain, the urgent need for an increased federal research investment to address this public health crisis and the long-overlooked value of including patient perspectives in all aspects of the research continuum. For over twenty years, she has served in several nonprofit management and leadership positions. She holds advisory positions for numerous critical pain initiatives within federal agencies, such as the NIH, CDC and FDA; academic pain research studies; and various collaborative alliances and public-private partnerships working to promote pain research, treatment and education. Chris has authored journal articles, op-eds, book chapters, continuing medical education programs for health care providers, patient tutorials and self-help guides. To promote awareness, she speaks openly about her experience with chronic pain and its profound impact on her life. Chris has been a presenter at over 30 medical, research and policy conferences, as well as federal agency meetings, and has been interviewed for print, television and radio media.