What drives pain beyond injury? St. Louis doctors offer insight (Links to an external site)
Dr. Sarah Buday, WashU Medicine associate professor of anesthesiology, and Corey Woldenberg, WashU Medicine assistant professor of physical therapy and othopaedic surgery, spoke with Ladue News about interdisciplinary pain management for neuroplastic pain.
Back to Living (Links to an external site)
After years of debilitating neuropathy pain, D.J. Callanan found life-changing relief thanks to Dr. Chamessian who identified him as a candidate for a spinal cord stimulator.
St. Louis Pain Research Forum Fosters Collaboration and Discovery (Links to an external site)
Scientists, clinicians, and trainees gathered at the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis (UHSP) this past September for the second St. Louis Translational Pain Research Forum (STL-TPRF), an event designed to foster collaboration and mentorship within the region’s growing pain research community.
Predicting pain with machine learning (Links to an external site)
Researchers at WashU are using machine learning to better predict who will experience persistent pain after surgery.
Chamessian named Rita Allen Foundation Scholar (Links to an external site)
Alexander Chamessian, MD, PhD, assistant professor of anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, has been named a 2025 recipient of the Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award in Pain.
Chronic Pain Is a Hidden Epidemic. It’s Time for a Revolution. (Links to an external site)
WashU Medicine researchers, including Drs. Robert Gereau, Bryan Copits, and Juliet Mwirigi, were recently featured for their groundbreaking chronic pain research, advancing precision treatments and non-opioid therapies to improve patient care.
Mwirigi awarded HHMI fellowship for exceptional early-career scientists (Links to an external site)
Neuroscientist Juliet Mwirigi, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, has been named a Hanna H. Gray Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
WashU Medicine funded to develop new postdoctoral training program (Links to an external site)
Burel R. Goodin, a professor of anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, has received more than $3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support postdoctoral training.
What People With Chronic Illness Need to Know About the ‘October Slide’ (Links to an external site)
Dr. Sarah Buday, a clinical psychologist specializing in pain psychology and an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, explains the concept of the “October Slide”—a seasonal decline in well-being affecting people with chronic illnesses.
Can we predict who will develop migraine headaches? (Links to an external site)
Dr. Nahman-Averbuch is leading two studies to help predict who is at risk of developing migraine disorder, and to identify the changes in brain connectivity and hormone levels that precede the onset of migraine headaches in adolescents.