M-POST:
Michigan Pain Outcomes Study Team
Contact Information:
Tami Hart-Johnson
Senior Research Associate
734.763.3319
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To enhance the knowledge of pain management by contributing to the understanding of the provision, access, organization, and delivery of acute, chronic, and cancer pain care. This health services and outcomes research agenda will be pursued through the execution of thoughtful, timely, rigorously conducted, state of the art pain management studies.
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To improve the understanding of the intersection of racial, ethnic, aging, gender, and socioeconomic factors as they relate to overall health and pain management outcomes.
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To enhance the quality of care for persons who may be differentially vulnerable to the pain experience by understanding health care provider and patient contributors.
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To be the preferred health services research team for those interested in studying pain management outcomes.
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To expand the knowledge of the delivery of pain, organization, economics, societal implications, and the personal impact of pain.
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To enhance the understanding of health care provider and patient variables that influence the quality of pain care, health status, and pain management outcomes.
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To use pain outcomes research as a forum for the exchange of ideas as well as a mechanism to promote pain education.
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To foster an environment for the study of pain related to health disparities to improve the health and well being of our patients, families, communities, and nation.
Carmen R. Green, MD
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Phone: 734-936-4240
Fax: 734-936-9091
Email: carmeng@umich.edu
Administratively, Dr. Green serves as Medical Director
for the Acute Pain Service within the Department of Anesthesiology’s
Multidisciplinary Pain Center. Dr. Green also is the Chair of the Pain
Management Steering Committee. She has previously chaired the Medical Affairs
Advisory Committee to the Executive Vice-President of Medical Affairs and
was a member of the University of Michigan President’s Violence Against
Women Task Force.
Dr. Green developed and directs the Medical Student (M1) Anesthesiology Summer Research Preceptorship at the University of Michigan. This program is designed to provide clinical and research exposure to anesthesiology for Michigan medical students. She also is the Associate Director for Medical Student Education Anesthesiology Clerkship.
Research Focus:
Pain Management:
A health services research agenda is used to evaluate differences in pain management outcomes:
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The role of healthcare utilization and social history in chronic pain
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Role of demographics and social history on the pain experience
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Physician variability in pain management
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Role of racial and ethnic, aging, gender and social economic variables on pain management
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Health care disparities in pain management as they relate to vulnerable and medically underserved populations
Safety, Quality and Outcome in Acute and Chronic Pain Management:
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Pain management education for healthcare providers
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Acute and chronic pain management outcomes
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Hydromorphone PCA errors
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Optimizing perioperative pain management
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Additional information regarding Dr. Green’s research and recent publications
Julia Caldwell, MD
Anesthesiology Resident - University of
Michigan
Email: jccaldwe@med.umich.edu
Dr. Julia Caldwell is a resident in the Anesthesiology
Department at the University of Michigan. She obtained her medical
degree from the University of Cincinnati following her attainment of
bachelor degree in pre medicine history, medievil studies, literature and languages.
Her honor thesis in undergraduate work focused on the effect of managed care
on the patient physician relationship and her research work in medical
school focused on the perioperative effects of epidurals for those patients
receiving cardiac and thoracic surgery. She is primarily focused on the
effects of gender on chronic pain and its ramifications as well as other
efforts regarding abuse and ethnicity on chronic pain. She has
completed an internal medicine internship at the St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital
in Ann Arbor Michigan. Next year she will complete her training at the
MD Anderson Cancer Center with a fellowship in Interventional Pain
Management.
Tamera Hart-Johnson, MS
Senior Research Associate
Phone: 734.763.3319
Email: thartj@med.umich.edu
Tamera Hart-Johnson is a Senior Research Associate for the Michigan
Pain Outcomes Study Team. She earned her Master’s in Science in Applied
Psychology from Portland State University in 1997. Her thesis involved
testing a model in which socioeconomic indicators predicted health care,
psychosocial resources and birth outcomes among women delivering at a large
Oregon Hospital.
Her research interests relate to health and wellness disparities by incorporating psychological, social and community stress and resource information into models which seek to explain differences and suggest points where interventions may be promising. Prior to joining M-POST, Tamera worked for the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan where she studied the role of adolescent racial identity as it relates to academic outcomes and the Oregon Health Division where she worked as an evaluator for a tobacco prevention program.
Susan Sessions, BA, BS
Administrative Assistant
Email: babbs@med.umich.edu
Susan
is an Administrative Assistant for the Michigan Pain Outcomes Study Team.
She graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science
degree in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature. In
the past, she has provided support for non-profit groups, corporations, and
the University of Michigan – Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric
Neurology where she assisted in preparing grant proposals, abstracts, and
manuscripts. She now provides the same assistance for the M-POST Team.
Sponsors
Dept. of Anesthesiology, Univ. of Michigan Medical School
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