Challenges in Managing and Preventing Pain
Our post-doctoral T32 entitled “Building an interprofessional and diverse workforce in substance use and pain” (BUILD-UP) has been funded with a start date of 7/1! Interested? Read more information and fill out an application at https://champp.pitt.edu/build-up!
CHAMPP Director Dr. Jessica Merlin was interviewed about barriers faced by patients receiving both cancer care and methadone treatment for opioid use disorder in the Summer 2024 issue of PITT MED.
In a new paper from CHAMPP investigators, pain catastrophizing and multisite pain contribute to the chronic cancer-related pain experienced by cancer survivors. Read more on how palliative care nurses are well positioned to improve chronic pain at the Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing.
Drs. Charles Jonassaint and Cristina Murray-Krezan received a new NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute UG3 grant for PRESENCE: Peer suppoRt for adolescents and Emerging adults with Sickle cell pain: promoting ENgagement in Cognitive behavioral thErapy.
Both of our directors received honors at the 2023 NIH HEAL Initiative Investigator Meeting – Dr. Jessica Merlin received the NIH HEAL Director’s Award for Mentorship, and Dr. Hailey Bulls received Honorable Mention for the NIH Director’s Trailblazer Award! Congratulations!
Congratulations to CHAMPP Co-Director Dr. Hailey Bulls on being accepted into the Behavioral Medicine Diversity Institute for Emerging Leaders AND for being selected as an Honorable Mention for the HEAL Director’s Trailblazer Award!
Congratulations to CHAMPP Director Dr. Jessica Merlin, who on December 1, 2022 was promoted to Professor of Medicine with tenure in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s Division of General Internal Medicine!
Congratulations to CHAMPP Co-Director Dr. Hailey Bulls for being awarded a National Cancer Institute K08 on October 18, 2022, “Development and Piloting of an Intervention to Reduce the Impact of Opioid Stigma on Cancer Pain.” Primary mentors for this grant include Dr. Jessica Merlin & Dr. Yael Schenker, as well as Burel Goodin, Jane Liebschutz, … Read more
Opioids are a cornerstone of cancer pain management, but there is a lack of consensus on how to treat pain in cancer patients who also have struggled with opioid use disorder or prescription opioid misuse. In a study published today in JAMA Oncology, CHAMPP Director Dr. Jessica Merlin and first author Katie Fitzgerald Jones MSN … Read more
