PAIN Collective News
March 2018
- At the recent American Pain Society meeting in Anaheim, CA:
- Terence Penn (Goodin, Trost) won the Psychosocial Research Special Interest Group Junior Poster Award for his poster entitled “Social support buffers the negative influence of injustice perceptions on pain interference in persons living with HIV and chronic pain”
- Kathryn Thompson (Goodin) won the Pain and Disparities Special Interest Group Junior Investigator Poster Award for her poster entitled “At the intersection of race and socioeconomic disadvantage: painful and disabling knee osteoarthritis”
- Dr. Trost will be speaking about virtual reality interventions for pain at the 2018 American Psychosomatic Society meeting in Louisville, KY. Her talk in entitled “Bringing Psychological Interventions to the Digital Era.”
- The Younger lab has a new paper demonstrating how the hormones progesterone and testosterone can influence fibromyalgia (Meredith Schertzinger is the first-author).
- Xiola Harris (Younger) won the UAB Department of Psychology Achievement Award.
- Christina Mueller (Younger) was invited to present her work on brain temperature and inflammation after head injury at the 2018 American Psychological Association meeting.
- The Pain Collective has three Fulbright Scholar semi-finalists:
- Remy Meir (Sorge) selected Norway
- Meredith Schertzinger (Younger) selected Scotland
- Rebecca Massey (Younger) selected Ecuador
- Dr. Trost was featured in the UAB Reporter regarding her work with virtual reality in spinal cord injury patients.
- Mary Lynch (Goodin) was matched to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center for her clinical psychology internship.
- Kathryn Thompson (Goodin) won the 2018 APS Pain & Disparities Young Investigator Poster Award.
- Dr. Goodin was invited to speak at Pain Week 2018 in September (Las Vegas) in a session entitled "It Hurts When I Do That: Assessment, Mechanisms and Management of Musculoskeletal Pain."
February 2018
- Stacie Totsch published her work on the effect of diet on recovery from injury in mice in the European Journal of Pain.
- Stacie Totsch featured in RELIEF.news for her poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN).