“Worldwide, pain is the leading cause of disability, but we have limited effective options for its treatment,” notes UF’s Yenisel Cruz-Almeida. To help address that gap, a new UF program will train pain researchers from across academic disciplines in a national effort led by NIH to strengthen the clinical pain research workforce and develop new non-opioid treatments for pain management.
The project will connect postdoctoral candidates with program mentors from fields such as engineering, medicine, biostatistics, psychology, nursing, and anthropology. The vision for the UF PAIN TEAM (Partnerships Across Interdisciplinary Networks: Training through Engineering, Epidemiology & Addiction Medicine) is to help develop a “new pain scientist” that can “think across traditional academic disciplines and boundaries,” says researcher Kyle Allen.
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