Andrew Schrepf, PhD
Dr. Schrepf is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center (CPFRC) and an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Michigan Medicine. His work focuses on inflammatory biology of complex medical symptoms, post-treatment symptom trajectories in chronic pain, immune system influence on the central nervous system, and Quantitative sensory testing in chronic pain.
Dr. Schrepf works with our team to look at how inflammatory markers might predict response to treatments, as well as the linkage between inflammation, early life adversity, and pain. Dr. Schrepf has a key role in our ongoing study where he looks at how pain mechanisms influence treatment response.
Maria Hadjifrangiskou, PhD, MD & Seth Reasoner
Dr. Maria Hadjifrangiskou is a Senior Assistant Dean of Biomedical Research, Education, and Training (BRET) and a Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology as well as Urology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Hadjifrangiskou runs the H Lab at Vanderbilt University, leading a group of experts that are evaluating the urinary microbiome and working to understand how bacteria functions in our bladders. Their work focuses specifically on uropathogenic E. coli.
Seth Reasoner, a former MD/PhD student in the H Lab, is now a Resident Physician at Case Western. Seth works with our team to look at how the urinary microbiome works in IC patients and specifically has helped us to understand how the bacterial composition in the bladder is different in patients with a localized pain phenotype.
Benjamin Johnson, PhD
Dr. Johnson is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Clinical Forensic Psychology MA Program. His work focuses on better understanding individuals affected by personality disorders, improving assessment of non-suicidal self-harm, suicide, and other behaviors often linked to personality disorders, and providing individualized treatment recommendations and integrative treatment approaches derived from both behavioral and psychodynamic traditions.
Dr. Johnson is an expert in EMA and a skilled statistician that has worked with our team for over a decade. On a previous collaboration project, he used patterning to examine EMA data. In our ongoing study, Dr. Johnson examines phenotypes in both OAB and IC patients using a variety of data types including QST, EMA, and Self-report.
Colin Walsh, MD, MA
Dr. Colin G. Walsh is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine, and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, as well as a practicing internist and clinical informatician. His research focuses on predictive analytics applied to vulnerable populations, clinical workflow, and decision support at the point-of-care. His foci of research and operational work are: 1) machine learning/data science applied to use-cases in mental health; 2) utilization optimization and quality improvement; 3) an analytics approach to value-based healthcare.
David Williams, PhD & Daniel Clauw, MD
The Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center is a multidisciplinary center committed to improving the understanding and management of disorders distinguished by symptoms of chronic pain and fatigue. The group has been instrumental in establishing that the systemic conditions and regional pain syndromes such as fibromyalgia, interstitial cystitis, osteoarthritis, low back pain, and post-deployment syndromes all have common pathogenic and clinical features.
Stuart Reynolds, MD, MPH
Dr. Reynolds is the Program Director of the Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). He is also an Associate Professor of Urology and runs the Urinary Reconstruction, Incontinence, and Neurourology (U.R.I.Ne.) Lab at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His work focuses on clinical and translational research projects related to women’s urology, urogynecology, and pelvic reconstruction, as well as functional urology and neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction in men and women.
David Patterson, PhD ABPP
David Patterson is the founder of Harborview’s Rehabilitation Consult Service and a UW professor of Medicine and Psychology and an adjunct professor of Surgery. Dr. Patterson specializes in pain control and recovery from physical trauma, burn injuries and other forms of disabilities. He is also internationally known for his work in clinical hypnosis. Dr. Patterson earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Florida State University. He has conducted NIH funded studies on pain control since the 1980s. He has also conducted clinical research in rehabilitation psychology and studied the use of immersive virtual reality for pain control.
Michael T. M. Finn, PhD
Michael Finn, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Finn earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He completed his predoctoral internship in psychology at SUNY-Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York and his postdoctoral fellowship in clinical health psychology at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. His clinical interests include psychotherapy and consultation with individuals with congenital heart disease, integrative approaches to psychotherapy for adolescents and adults with chronic health conditions, personality, assessment, and clinical hypnosis.