In March 2019, I started a new chapter in my career as a Clinical Professor and Director of Behavioral Health in the Division of Pain Medicine at the University of California at Davis School of Medicine. This is a wonderful opportunity to work alongside a nationally recognized group of faulty and staff to take the Pain Center's Behavioral Health Services to the next level. My predecessors did an excellent job of laying a strong foundation on which to build upon.
Since my arrival, we have developed concurrent cognitive-behavioral therapy-based groups to teach patients evidence-based non-pharmacologic approaches to pain management, created a streamlined interdisciplinary screening and team conference process for individuals being considered for neuromodulation therapies, and produced a clinical intervention to help our network primary care physicians successfully optimize opioid medication regimens for the individuals under their care. I am actively involved in the training of pain medicine fellows as well as students in our physician assistant studies program. To improve comprehensive pain education for physicians at the pre-licensure level, I created and taught an elective class on non-pharmacologic approaches to pain management to medical students as they transitioned to residency.
I look forward to continuing to collaborate with individuals throughout the School of Medicine and beyond to advance the science and practice of Psychology in health domains.
Since my arrival, we have developed concurrent cognitive-behavioral therapy-based groups to teach patients evidence-based non-pharmacologic approaches to pain management, created a streamlined interdisciplinary screening and team conference process for individuals being considered for neuromodulation therapies, and produced a clinical intervention to help our network primary care physicians successfully optimize opioid medication regimens for the individuals under their care. I am actively involved in the training of pain medicine fellows as well as students in our physician assistant studies program. To improve comprehensive pain education for physicians at the pre-licensure level, I created and taught an elective class on non-pharmacologic approaches to pain management to medical students as they transitioned to residency.
I look forward to continuing to collaborate with individuals throughout the School of Medicine and beyond to advance the science and practice of Psychology in health domains.
With European Union colleagues after delivering a keynote presentation at a regional Health Psychology Conference in Siegen, Germany
