This episode opens with the theme song from the musical Painless.*

Amy Bohnert, PhD, MHS is a professor of anesthesiology and co-director of the opioid research institute at the University of Michigan. She studies opioid safety, chronic pain, and mental and behavioral health conditions. Dr. Bohnert has served on several key national committees, including for the National Academies of Science and Medicine and on the Stanford-Lancet Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis. 

See Dr. Bohnert’s links below:

Opioid Prescribing and Engagement Network (OPEN)
 Michigan OPEN
https://michigan-open.org/

COMPASS
 https://www.michiganmedicine.org/news-release/trial-and-error-targeted-precision-179m-grant-accelerates-u-m-mental-health-research 

SAMHSA 

https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help

*Special thanks to Dr. Chad Brummett, Co-Director of the Overdose Prevention
Engagement Network known as OPEN, also at the University of Michigan. OPEN aims to apply a preventative approach to the opioid epidemic in the United States.

NBC’s Harry Smith reports for The TODAY Show. Unique Musical Aims To Raise Awareness Of Opioid Risk To Teens Performers from the epidemic musical theatre program at the University of Michigan are working in a joint venture with Michigan Medicine to raise awareness about addiction issues through a unique performance.

https://youtu.be/pp82-N3Z_4s

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Roger B. Fillingim, PhD is a Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of Planning & Institutional Effectiveness in the University of Florida College of Dentistry. 

He is also the Director of the University of Florida Pain Research & Intervention Center of Excellence. His research investigates biological and psychosocial contributions to individual differences in pain and its treatment. Dr. Fillingim’s research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1994, including a current MERIT award from the National Institute on Aging. 

Dr. Fillingim served as President of the American Pain Society (APS) from 2012 to 2014 and was inducted into the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida in 2024.

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Find and contact your elected officials.

https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials

United States Association for the Study of Pain

https://www.usasp.org/

International Association for the Study of Pain

https://www.iasp-pain.org/

American Chronic Pain Association

https://www.acpanow.com/#/

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Dr. Mary Janevic is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Equity in the School of Public Health. She is trained in community health sciences, social epidemiology, and gerontology. She received her PhD at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and did a post-doc in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.  

Her current research program focuses on testing behavioral interventions to promote chronic pain self-management and other aspects of healthy aging that leverage individual and community strengths. She has a particular interest in community health workers as a workforce that can help extend holistic chronic pain care to underserved populations.

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RESET: “Re-engaging in Self-care and Enjoying Today”
 
Podcast: Power of Positivity

https://www.resetstudy.org/week-1-power-in-positivity/

University of Michigan: School of Public Health - RESET Study   

In collaboration with the Detroit Health Department

https://www.resetstudy.org/ 

Book: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

AARP: https://www.aarp.org/

Area agencies on aging: https://acl.gov/programs/aging-and-disability-networks/area-agencies-aging 

 

 

 
 

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Dr. Kim Dupree Jones is nurse practitioner and a Professor and the Associate Dean for Academic Advancement at Emory University. Her area of research expertise is fibromyalgia.
Her work is cited in national and international fibromyalgia treatment guidelines and texts including Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine, Physical Rehabilitation & Medicine, Kelly’s Textbook of Rheumatology and Neurology in Clinical Practice. 
 
She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and is a Sigma International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame Fellow in recognition of her overall body of academic work.

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Book: Chronic Pain Reset
https://www.amazon.com/Chronic-Pain-Reset-Activities-Practices/dp/1682687651

Video: Tame the Best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUzvSph7Z4

Book: When Children Feel Pain
https://www.amazon.com/When-Children-Feel-Pain-Conditions/dp/0674185021

Book: Less Pain, Fewer Pills
https://www.amazon.com/Less-Pain-Fewer-Pills-Prescription/dp/1936693585

Sean Mackey Huberman Lab Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9lORz2_XSU

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Christin Veasley is a nationally recognized advocate for pain research, driven by her own experience with chronic pain after surviving a near-fatal accident at age 15. With a science background and a deep personal connection to the cause, she has worked to advance pain science and ensure research leads to meaningful change for those living with chronic pain. 
Chris co-founded the Chronic Pain Research Alliance in 2009 and is currently co-chair of the NIH's ENGAGE Working Group, developing the first agency-wide guidance for embedding patient partnership in all NIH-funded clinical research. She is a trusted voice in the field, authoring publications and speaking on the intersection of science, policy, and lived experience.

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https://resiliencephotography.com/

 

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Dr. Lindsey Delott is an Assistant Professor with joint appointments in Neurology and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at the University of Michigan. She also serves as the Section Lead for Neuro-Ophthalmology at the renowned Kellogg Eye Center. 

Her work focuses on understanding the impact of neurologic and neuro-ophthalmic conditions, such as chronic eye pain, visual phenomena, and optic disorders on her patients’ functioning and well-being. Her pioneering research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and various philanthropic and professional organizations.

See below for Dr. Delott’s links:

UM Health link to the study: https://umhealthresearch.org/studies/HUM00256221

Kellogg Eye Center Annual Report (Dr. Delott’s research): https://issuu.com/u-mkelloggeyecenter/docs/kellogg_eye_center_annual_report_2023-24/s/64832328 

Dr. Delott’s medical school profile : https://medschool.umich.edu/profile/2080/lindsey-b-de-lott

 

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Dr. Pavel Goldstein is a pain scientist, innovator, and advocate for healing. He leads the Integrative Pain Laboratory (iPainLab) and heads the MPH program in Biostatistics at the University of Haifa’s School of Public Health. 

His research explores how our brains and bodies process pain—and more importantly, how we can recover from it. By combining insights from neurophysiology, biochemistry, voice, and language, Dr. Goldstein’s team develops  diagnostic tools powered by computational and digital technologies. He is also the co-creator of Personalized Danger Signal Reprocessing (PDSR)—a  therapeutic approach for chronic pain, now being piloted across healthcare systems and tech platforms. 

In a creative turn that reflects his own near experience with chronic pain, Dr. Goldstein reimagined the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication as Pain Chronification - a song that gives voice to the emotional and physiological journey of pain. 

See Dr. Goldstein’s links  below:

Integrative Pain Laboratory:  https://pain.haifa.ac.il/

Song: Pain Chronification:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caxVQ1dzMG4

 

 

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Isabelle Amigues, MD, is a rheumatologist based in Denver, Colorado. She honed her expertise by studying in Paris, as well as at Columbia University, in New York City. At age 40 she was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic breast cancer.
 
A timely meeting with a non-traditionally trained practitioner taught her a different approach to disease where she experienced the power of meditation, visualization, energy healing, and love. Her journey through cancer inspired her to learn more about these alternative techniques and she now blends western medicine and eastern techniques into her practice at UnabridgedMD.com 

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Website: www.UnabridgedMD.com

YouTube: UnabridgedMD - YouTube

Podcast: http://unabridgedmd.com/podcast

 

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Dr. Daniel Whibley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Michigan and an Honorary Lecturer in Applied Health Sciences in the Epidemiology Group at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. 

Dr. Whibley trained as physiotherapist in London and has clinical experience managing patients in rehabilitation settings. He has conducted studies as a Principal Investigator or Co-investigator with grant funding from the National Institute of Health & Care Research and Versus Arthritis in the UK, and the National Institutes of Health, the Academy of Orthopedic Physical Therapy and the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation in the US. 

Last year he was selected as the joint University of Michigan Institute for
Healthcare Policy and Innovation and the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for
Health Policy Studies ‘Emerging Scholar.’

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https://medschool.umich.edu/profile/7513/daniel-whibley

https://medresearch.umich.edu/labs-departments/labs/kratz-lab/research

email: [email protected]

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Dr. Kathleen Holton is a nutritional neuroscientist and a Provost Associate Professor at American University in Washington, DC. Her research examines the negative effects of dietary excitotoxins on neurological symptoms, as well as the positive protective effects of certain micronutrients on the brain. 

The most common dietary excitotoxin exposures in the US are from food additives. Dr. Holton’s research is exploring the beneficial effects of removing these additives, while optimizing the nutrient composition of the diet to treat neurological conditions characterized by excitotoxicity, oxidative stress, and neuroinflammation. 

Her work aims to optimize the use of food as medicine in neurological treatment.

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https://www.american.edu/cas/health/nutrneurolab/

 

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