CHRONIC PAIN RESET Podcast - with Afton Hassett

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 C...

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 con...

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 ...

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. 
 
Sh...

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 cu...

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 a...

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 te...

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 l...

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...

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 ...

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 for Democracy, and What It Means for the World.” 

One of the most influential wome...

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 he has contributed to work on Pain Reprocessing Therapy. His research has been c...

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 pain conditions. And in some cases, she tests sleep and circadian-based treatmen...

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 recovery. In the years since, Ben has become a chronic illness recov...

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 Wellness in Tyler, Texas.

Website: erinbkerry.com
Blog/Podcast: sparkingwho...

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 about the remarkable role of the brain in the experience and treatment of chr...

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 her life on the farm and now, her life with chronic pain. Mandy is the mother of ...

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 to Marathon, shares her personal journey with complex regional pain syndrom...

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 and gender diverse people. 

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Dr. Chadwick's collabo...