Description
Digital Precision Pain Care: Assessment, Treatment, and Monitoring
- Sean Mackey MD PhD and Ajay Wasan, MD, MA MSc
Contributors
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Sean Mackey, MD PhD
Sean Mackey, MD, PhD is the Redlich Professor, Division Chief of Pain Medicine, Associate Vice-Chair for Clinical Research, and Director of the Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab (SNAPL) at Stanford University. Dr. Mackey received his BSE and MSE in Bioengineering from University of Pennsylvania, and his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as his MD from University of Arizona. Under Dr. Mackey’s leadership, Stanford Pain Management Center has twice been designated a Center of Excellence by American Pain Society. As Director of SNAPL, his primary research interest involves the use of advanced research techniques such as functional and structural neuroimaging, psychophysics and neurobehavioral assessment, to investigate neural processing of pain and neuronal plasticity in patients with chronic pain. Currently, he is developer of a free, open-source learning health system, CHOIR (http://choir.stanford.edu). He has served as principal investigator for multiple NIH (P01, R01’s, R61, U01, K24, T32, R21) and foundation sponsored grants to investigate mechanisms of chronic pain. Dr. Mackey has published over 300 journal articles and book chapters in addition to numerous national and international lectures. He co-authored Institute of Medicine’s report, Relieving Pain in America. He was co-chair of the Oversight Committee for NIH/Health and Human Services National Pain Strategy (NPS), an effort to establish a national health strategy for pain care, education, and research.
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Ajay D. Wasan, MD MSc
Dr. Wasan is the Vice Chair for Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and a Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is board certified in pain medicine and completed fellowship training in pain medicine in the Anesthesiology Department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is also board certified in Psychiatry and completed a residency in Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Wasan has supervisory responsibility for clinical care across seven pain clinics in the UPMC system, pain medicine clinical faculty, and research within the Pain Medicine Division. He is also Co-Chair of a system-wide committee to improve pain care across UPMC.