Date/Time
10/3/2025
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern
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Event Description
Chronic pain is among the most common, costly, and disabling medical conditions in the United States and worldwide. Best practices in chronic pain management require multidisciplinary approaches; a key component of multidisciplinary care is psychological/behavioral treatment. This course will provide an overview of the evolving definition of chronic pain, empirically supported behavioral treatments for chronic pain and headache disorders, strategies for implementing evidence-based psychological approaches for pain management, and emerging treatments for the reduction of pain and headache symptoms.
John (Drew) Sturgeon is a fellowship-trained, licensed clinical psychologist and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. He completed his PhD in clinical psychology at Arizona State University and postdoctoral pain psychology fellowship in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has been extensively trained and continues to treat people with chronic pain using a combination of cognitive-behavioral therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and emotion- and meditation-focused approaches to pain management. His research interests include contributors to individual resilience in chronic pain, comprehensive statistical modeling of adaptation to chronic pain, fatigue, social factors in the experience of pain, and novel and disseminable behavioral interventions for chronic pain. Dr. Sturgeon has published 80 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in the areas of resilience and vulnerability factors in chronic pain and stress, psychological interventions for chronic pain, and the broader role of psychosocial factors in chronic pain.
John (Drew) Sturgeon is a fellowship-trained, licensed clinical psychologist and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. He completed his PhD in clinical psychology at Arizona State University and postdoctoral pain psychology fellowship in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has been extensively trained and continues to treat people with chronic pain using a combination of cognitive-behavioral therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and emotion- and meditation-focused approaches to pain management. His research interests include contributors to individual resilience in chronic pain, comprehensive statistical modeling of adaptation to chronic pain, fatigue, social factors in the experience of pain, and novel and disseminable behavioral interventions for chronic pain. Dr. Sturgeon has published 80 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in the areas of resilience and vulnerability factors in chronic pain and stress, psychological interventions for chronic pain, and the broader role of psychosocial factors in chronic pain.
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UNITED STATES
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