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A multi-disciplinary approach to pain

A multi-disciplinary approach to pain

C3P, with more than 30 members, includes experts in Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Anesthesiology, Ophthalmology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Spine, Behavioral Health and Wellness & Prevention.

Our research focuses on all facets of pain, including acute and chronic pain, neuropathic, head & neck, trauma, abdominal, amputation and spine and back pain. C3P is also affiliated with Cleveland Clinic's Musculoskeletal Research Center (MSRC).

Expertise

Circuits

  • Circuit-level neuromodulation (SCS, DBS, pump)
  • Regenerative repair
  • Mapping circuits with cellular specificity and sub-second precision, using optogenetics

Pain biomarkers and diagnostics

  • Validating pain biomarkers and reliable diagnostics in humans

Therapeutics

  • Multimodal, integrative and individualized therapies
  • Peptide and neuro-immune therapeutics
  • Non-pharmacologic approaches to pain management
  • Interventional approaches that include neurostimulation of the peripheral nerve, spinal cord and brain

Outcomes

  • Clinical outcomes in actigraphy, electroencephalography and artificial intelligence
  • Improvement of functional outcomes

Members

Members

Members of C3P are affiliated with Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute and various clinical departments. Disease focus areas include all facets of pain – acute, chronic, neuropathic, musculoskeletal, spine and back pain, trauma (spinal cord injury and amputation), and head and neck pain.

  • Carl Saab, PhD
  • Zubair Ahmed, MD
  • Kenneth Baker, PhD
  • Paul Bryson, MD
  • Jianguo Cheng, MD, PhD
  • Robb Colbrunn, DEng
  • Gail Cresci, PhD
  • Sara Davin, PsyD, MPH
  • Kathleen Derwin, PhD
  • Hubert Fernandez, MD
  • Raghavan Gopalakrishnan, PhD
  • Michael W. Jenkins, PhD
  • Stephen Jones, MD, PhD
  • Vinod Labhasetwar, PhD
  • Yu-Shang Lee, PhD
  • Ching-Yi Lin, PhD
  • Feng Lin, PhD
  • Andre Machado, MD, PhD
  • MaryAnn Mays, MD
  • Michael Moffitt, PhD
  • Sean Nagel, MD
  • Richard Rammo, MD
  • Richard Rosenquist, MD
  • Daniel Rotroff, PhD
  • Robert Saper, MD
  • Rony Sayegh, MD
  • Amanda Shallcross, ND, MPH
  • Michael Steinmetz, MD
  • Pavan Tankha, DO
  • Dawn Taylor, PhD
  • David L. Wilson, PhD
  • Richard Wilson, MD, MS
  • Jijun Xu, MD, PhD
  • Michael Zatt, DO

Highlighted Publications

Highlighted Publications

Tankha, H., Lumley, M. A., Gordon, A., Schubiner, H., Uipi, C., Harris, J., Wager, T. D., & Ashar, Y. K. "I don't have chronic back pain anymore": Patient experiences in Pain Reprocessing Therapy for chronic back pain, The Journal of Pain (2023)

Davin, S., Savage, J. W., Thompson, N. S., Schuster, A., & Darnall, B. D. Transforming Standard of Care for Spine Surgery: Integration of an Online Single-Session Behavioral Pain Management Class for Perioperative Optimization, Frontiers in Pain Research (2022)

In the News

In the News

BBC | How An Objective Measure of Pain Could Counter Bias In Medicine

Migraine Science Collaborative | Pain Never Comes in a Pure Form

The Wall Street Journal | A New Prognosis for Pain Care

byuradio | EEG Test Provides More Effective Way to Measure Pain

Brown University | Brown researchers develop new test to objectively measure pain, test medications

The Brown Daily Herald | U. researchers develop new method for pain analysis

Scientific American | Taking the Bias out of Pain Diagnosis

Neurostories | Episode 2: Migraine in Pregnancy

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