Our scientific pursuits are specific to investigating the interactive influences of biological, psychosocial, cognitive, and behavioral factors associated with chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions with an emphasis on stress, aging, and resilience.
Goals
Our goals are to contribute to the scientific and medical communities in six specific areas:
1) Improve the characterization of chronic pain to enhance understanding and quantify the biological interface.
2) Identify risk and buffering factors that exacerbate or bolster against the health-related burdens of chronic pain.
3) Disentangle and elucidate the factors contributing to clinical heterogeneity in chronic pain.
4) Identify clinically useful biological measures of individual health status to monitor response to pain treatments.
5) Investigate non-invasive strategies to prevent, reduce, or ameliorate chronic pain and enhance functioning.
PROPEL: Promoting Research and Optimizing Pain-Related Evidence-Based Learning
Educational efforts are focused on facilitating multidisciplinary, collaborative relationships; scholarly productivity; and clinical/translational pain research training. The overarching intentions and targeted outcomes of PROPEL are to increase medical students, residents, fellows, early stage researchers, and faculty involvement in clinical-translational pain research; enhance the ability to evaluate research findings; and promote the translation of evidence into clinical practice.
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