Title: David T. Rovee, PhD and Joanne V. Rovee Endowed Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Founding Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research (CHOIR), Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

CHOIR Role: Founding Director 

Research Interests: Developing, optimizing, testing, and implementing technology enhanced mind-body and lifestyle interventions for patients, caregivers, and dyads across the continuum from health to illness and across the lifespan; building interdisciplinary collaborations; research methods across the NIH stage model

Clinical Interests: mind-body and lifestyle interventions

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Twitter: @drAMVranceanu

Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience

Professor in Medicine

Professor in Anesthesiology

Member of the Duke Cancer Institute

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Position: Postdoctoral Fellow in Clinical Psychology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Area of research: Mind-body interventions for chronic pain. Treating negative emotionality (e.g., anxiety, PTSD) in the context of chronic pain with a focus on exposure techniques.

Pain research questions: 1) How can we improve emotional processing in the context of chronic pain? 2) How can we reduce nervous system over-activation underlying PTSD and chronic pain?

Current grant funding: NCCIH K23: Pain Disengagement Training: A self-directed intervention for pain catastrophizing

Position: Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School; Staff Psychologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Area of research: Family adjustment to stressful reproductive life events and critical care illness

Pain research questions: interventions for endometriosis-associated pain, Dyadic/family-based chronic pain interventions

Current grant funding: K23 from NICHD: Resilient Families (R-FAM): A dyadic resiliency intervention for parents with babies in neonatal intensive care

Position: Associate Professor; Research Staff Psychologist

Area of research: Developing and testing mind-body and mindfulness-based interventions for various clinical populations, with an emphasis on chronic musculoskeletal pain, orofacial pain, and mild traumatic brain injury.

Current grant funding: K23/NCCIH: Live video mind-body treatment to prevent persistent symptoms following mTBI (PI; 1K23AT01065301A1), R01/NCCIH: Improving multimodal physical function in adults with heterogeneous chronic pain; Multi-site feasibility RCT (MPI; 1R01AT012069-01

Position: Staff Psychologist, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Area of Research: Healthy aging, dementia prevention, behavior change, digital health, mind-body and lifestyle intervention development, statistics

Pain research questions: How do mindfulness-based interventions influence the progression from subacute to persistent pain How can technology enhance the delivery and assessment of pain intervention

Current grant funding: NIA K23 Award: My Healthy Brain: a mindfulness-based lifestyle intervention to modify early risk of dementia in older adults, NIH LRP Award: Developing technology-enhanced interventions to promote adherence to healthy lifestyles, The Cathedral Fund Award: Physical and psychological measures of pain in acute orthopedic injuries: use of at-home virtual reality. NIA R01 (Co-I): Addressing the chronic pain-early cognitive decline comorbidity among older adults; The Active Brains study, PCORI (Co-I): Comorbidity of chronic pain and early cognitive decline among older, community-based Black adults: Comparative effectiveness of the Active Brains (AB) vs Active Living Every Day (ALED) interventions, NIA P30 (Co-I Research and Education Component): Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Resource Center for Minority Aging and Behavioral Health Research (MA-RCMAR)

Position: Researcher, Member of the Faculty, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Area of research: Improving clinical outcomes and well-being for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain through the development of novel rehabilitation interventions.

Pain research questions: 1) What are the inciting factors in the development of hip-related pain (i.e., why do some people with these hip morphologies develop pain and others do not?) 2) How does psychological response to pain impact joint loading and movement?

Current grant funding: NCCIH K23: Development and feasibility of a mind-body intervention to improve physical activity for patients with chronic hip pain

Position: Instructor, MGH, HMS

Area of Research: mind-body interventions, chronic pain, underserved populations

Pain research questions: Can we address chronic pain disparities in the older Black community by culturally tailoring mind-body interventions?

Current grant funding: NCCIH K23 Award (K23AT012363) and The Ki Sub Joung Innovative Junior Faculty Pilot Award in Aging and Palliative Care: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for the chronic pain-depression co-morbidity among older Black individuals in the community, Resource Center for Minority Aging Research Scholar (P30AG083196): Culturally Adapting mindfulness based cognitive therapy for Black older adults with comorbid early cognitive decline and chronic pain; The Feeling of Being study

Position: Instructor in Investigation, Division of Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine and Mongan Institute Center for Aging and Serious Illness, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Area of Research: chronic pain management in older adults

Pain research questions: I am interested in (1) understanding the relationships between pain and health-related behaviors (e.g., substance use, physical activity) in aging adults, and (2) developing behavioral interventions to improve chronic pain management in this population.

Current grant funding: US Deprescribing Network Pilot Award: Evaluating Substance Use-Related Outcomes in Opioid Deprescribing among Older Adults with Chronic Pain: A Mixed Methods Study

Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MGH/HMS

Area of research: Mind-body intervention development for individuals with chronic pain, with a particular interest in emergency department settings.

Pain research questions: 1) Can psychosocial interventions for chronic pain be implemented in acute care settings? 2) How can we best match specific mind-body skills for chronic pain to individual patients based on pain-related psychosocial characteristics?

Current grant funding: T32 Postdoctoral Fellow in the MGH/HMS Bridging the Science-to-Service Gap program (T32 AG081327)

Position: Associate Professor; Staff Psychologist at MGH/HMS

Area of research: Broadly my research is interdisciplinary, translational pain science focused on elucidating the complex biopsychosocial mechanisms contributing to chronic pain across the lifespan. A major focus of my research is to identify people (children-adults) who demonstrate amplified central nervous system processing of pain-related information and who are at elevated risk for adverse outcomes and reduced benefits of pain-reducing treatment. My funding has largely been in the area of chronic postsurgical pain as well as in endometriosis-associated pain. I am also interested in designing and implementing mechanistic clinical trials in order to better understand the mechanisms of action of behavioral pain treatment, which hopefully can result in more personalized patient care.

Pain research questions: I am interested in developing large, multicenter mechanistic clinical trials investigating the neurological and psychosocial mechanisms of change for behavioral pain interventions. There is also a need for a paradigm shift in how we treat, manage, and perceive chronic pain through the lifespan, especially in historically unrepresented populations, given significant issues of racism, gender-based discrimination, and stigma. I am interested in exploring this further in my research.

Current grant funding: R35 MIRA Award from NIGMS: Chronic postsurgical pain across the lifespan: Brain state and treatment