Associate Professor Psychiatry and Anesthesiology
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
Dr. Cheatle is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Director of Behavioral Medicine at the Penn Pain Medicine Center, and Director of Pain and Chemical Dependency Research at the Center for Studies of Addiction, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been conducting research and providing clinical treatment of patients with chronic pain and co-morbid disorders including substance use disorders, HIV, mood disorders and sleep disorders as director of both university and community based interdisciplinary pain programs. His focus of research is in improving pain care to individuals from vulnerable populations (psychiatric, substance use disorders, HIV, sleep disorders) including developing strategies to identifying and mitigating the risks associated with opioid therapy and the risk of suicide in the pain population. He was the PI of a recently completed RO1 NIDA grant on clinical and genetic characteristics of opioid addiction in chronic pain; a project PI of a NIDA P-60 Center grant on a longitudinal study of the development of a substance use disorder in patients initiating prescription opioid therapy for chronic pain in primary care; and as a co-investigator in the development of a patient centered medical home model for improved pain care. Currently, Dr. Cheatle is co-investigator of a recently funded NIH R01 examining the role of opioid adherence profiles in cancer pain self – management and outcomes; co-investigator of the HOPE Consortium to Reduce Pain and Opioid Use in patients on Hemodialysis; co-investigator on a NIDA R21 assessing the effect cannabidiol in chronic non-cancer pain on chronic opioid therapy; and PI of a recently funded NIH/NINR R21 examining the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy delivered preoperatively to patients undergoing total knee arthroplasties in reducing post-operative pain, opioid use and the chronification of pain.
Do As I Say! Facilitating Treatment Adherence in Pain Medicine
Thursday, April 4, 2024
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM
