CHRONIC PAIN RESET Podcast - with Dr. Afton Hassett

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Dr. Rob Edwards is a licensed clinical psychologist in the Pain Management Center in the Department of Anesthesiology at Mass General Brigham Hospital for the Harvard Medical School. He has a PhD in Medical Psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a Masters in Public Health. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Pain Psychology at...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Cheryl Crow is an occupational therapist and a fierce advocate for comprehensive arthritis care. She joins us to talk about the unique challenges of life as a young person living with rheumatoid arthritis. Her often hilarious and many times courageous observations are the fodder for her own podcast, Arthritis Life, as well as her time with us. Prepare fo...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. 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...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. 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 individ...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. 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 Pub...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. 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...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. 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 p...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. 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 chroni...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. 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 insi...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. 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 ex...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. 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 reh...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. 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 th...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Enjoy this reissue of one of our most popular episodes that begins with a poignant update. Iuliia Mendel is a Ukrainian journalist who from 2019-2021 served as press secretary and spokesperson for Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine. She is the author of the powerful book, “The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle f...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Dr. Mark Lumley is a clinical psychologist and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. For over 30 years, he has researched emotional factors and health, particularly chronic pain.   He has developed and demonstrated the efficacy of Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy for chronic pain, and...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Dr. Helen Burgess is a Professor of Psychiatry and the Co-Director of the Sleep and Circadian Research Laboratory at the University of Michigan.  She studies sleep and circadian rhythms in a variety of human clinical conditions including alcohol use disorder, HIV, bipolar disorder, inflammatory bowel disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, and chronic p...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Happy Holidays!  Enjoy this reissue of one of our most popular episodes, with Ben Ahrens.  We will return on Tuesday, January 14, 2025 with an all-new episode. Take extra good care of yourself until then. Ben Ahrens shares his captivating story of disease and suffering that brought him to the brink and the insights and practices that lifted him to recove...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Erin Kerry is a certified integrative nutrition health coach. She has received training from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition and The School of Applied Functional Medicine. She is the owner of Sparking Wholeness and host of the very popular Sparking Wholeness podcast. Erin works as an integrative health coach at Living Well Holistic Counseling and...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Enjoy this reissue of one of our most popular episodes.  We return next Tuesday with an all-new episode. Dr. Daniel Clauw is a physician and Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan (UM). He is also the Director of the world-renowned Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center at UM. In our first episode, he shares his pioneering research a...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Our guest today will share the role that religion and spirituality have played in her life and work. Mandy Dawson Farmer is a farm girl who became a pastor's wife and then an author. She has also lived with chronic pain for nearly 14 years. Her passions, including faith, music, and children, have led her to write stories for children stemming from h...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Nicole Hemmenway is the CEO of the U.S. Pain Foundation and formerly directed its flagship program, the INvisible Project—an online and print magazine that highlights the experiences of individuals living with pain. She is also an author and motivational speaker. Her book, No, It Is NOT in My Head: The Journey of a Chronic Pain Survivor from Wheelchair t...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Dr. Andrea Chadwick is a pain physician and the director of the Fibromyalgia and Centralized Pain Exploration (FACE) Lab. She is an associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Her  research focuses on treating nociplastic pain, more broadly, and pain in transgender a...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Dr. Jill Schneiderhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan.  She is also the Co-Director of the Integrative Family Medicine Program with a clinical focus on the integrative management of chronic pain.  Her career has had a strong focus on medical education across the entire spectrum including new fe...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Join us for a clinician-focused and thoughtful discussion on the role of opioids in the treatment of chronic pain. Dr. Chad Brummett is a Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan where he serves as the Senior Associate Chair for Research. He has more than 300 publications and is also the Co-Director of the cross-campus Opioid Research In...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Dr. Emily Foxen-Craft is a pediatric pain psychologist in​ her private practice, called Pediatric Pain and Behavioral Health and is located in southeast Michigan. Prior to the founding of her clinic, she was a psychologist at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in the pediatric pain clinic and a clinical assistant professor in the ​Department of Pediatric...

We'd love to hear from you! Click here. Afton shares a brief overview of the sessions she attended at the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) scientific meeting in Amsterdam, as well as her reflections about the current state of pain research.   Support the show If you are new to our podcast series, please consider to JOIN THE LOOP with us here - https://aftonhassett.com  RE...