UCSFPARC @UCSFPARC
The UCSF Pain and Addiction Research Center (PARC) aims to provide a unified response to two major public health challenges: chronic pain and addiction. painaddiction.ucsf.edu San Francisco Joined April 2023-
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Dr. @PrasadShirvalka has been featured in a New York Times article about personalized deep brain stimulation. The results of Dr. Shirvalkar's groundbreaking clinical trial in this area are currently available in pre-print. Read more: anesthesia.ucsf.edu/dbs #painmedicine
Join us as we celebrate the research of Dr. Howard Fields, Professor Emeritus, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Neurology, and Physiology. Monday, July 14, 2025 | 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. (PDT) Sandler Auditorium, or via Zoom For more info: anesthesia.ucsf.edu/fields
Join us on Wed 5/28 at Noon for our next seminar: "Harnessing Health Signals with Large-Scale Mobile Sensor Data for Modeling Substance Use Disorder" presented by @TRahmanRifat, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCSD. Learn more and register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine
Join us on Wed 4/23 at Noon for our next seminar: "ACVR1 sensory neuron-specific signaling in neuropathic pain and injury-induced heterotopic ossification" presented by Xiaobing Yu, MD. Learn more and register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine
We hope to see you at the 2025 PARC Neuromodulation Symposium. Featuring presentations from nationally recognized clinicians and scientists! April 26 | 8 AM-1:30 PM | Sandler Neurosciences Center & Zoom Register painaddiction.ucsf.edu/events/2025-PA… #clinicalresearch #painmedicine
Proud to see Dr. Prasad Shirvalkar interviewed for a recent New York Times article by Nina Agrawal entitled, "What Works for Low Back Pain? Not Much, a New Study Says." Read more: anesthesia.ucsf.edu/nyt3_18 #painmedicine #UCSFProud
Join us on Wed 3/26 at Noon for our next seminar: "Optimizing the use of ketamine to reduce chronic postsurgical pain in women undergoing mastectomy for oncologic indication" presented by Jing Wang, MD, PhD. Learn more and register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine
Research fellowship opportunity: We are accepting applications for a 2025 NIH T32 funded research fellowship to prepare anesthesiologists and related specialists for academic research careers! Learn more: tiny.ucsf.edu/UCSFAnesT32 #t32 #Fellowship #research #NIH #AcademicResearch
Join us on Wed 2/26 at Noon for our next seminar: "Outpatient ketamine infusions for refractory chronic pain, a patient interview" presented by Chris Abrecht, MD, Associate Professor and Chief, Pain Medicine. Learn more and register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine
We are pleased to announce a call for applications for research proposals at the intersection of pain and addiction. We are accepting applications through Friday, March 21, 2025, for a single $100,000 PARC Research Fellowship Award. Apply: painaddiction.ucsf.edu/research-fello… #fellowship
Join us on Wed 1/22 at Noon for our first seminar of 2025: "Classic psychedelic therapies for chronic pain: A review" presented by Brian Anderson, MD, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, @UCSFMedicine Learn more and register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine #PARCseminar
Join us on Wed 12/11 at Noon for our final seminar of 2024: "Updates and Challenges of Psilocybin Treatment for Neuropsychiatric Disorders" presented by Josh Woolley, MD, PhD, Director of: @TrPR_Program Learn more and register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine @thebandlab
Join us on Wed 11/13 at Noon for two engaging seminars: "Circuit mechanisms of opioid-mediated responses to subanesthetic ketamine" and "Opioid responsive circuits in the lateral habenula" Learn more and register here: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #paincontrol #PARCseminar @diianni_t
Join us on Wed 10/23 at Noon for two engaging seminars. Learn more and register here: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #paincontrol #PARCseminar @RambachanAkshar @JeanneTPaz
Join us on Wed 9/25 at Noon for "San Francisco General Hospital Harm Reduction Program (SHaRP)" and "Group CRAFT for Caregivers: Acceptability and impacts on youth treatment engagement and caregiver well-being" tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSem #paincontrol #mentalclarity #PARCseminar
Join us next Wed 6/5 at Noon to hear a patient-centered case discussion from Dr. Ann Cai Shaw about "Interventional Cancer Pain: Pain Control WITH Preserved Mental Clarity." See you on Zoom: tiny.ucsf.edu/Gew9iJ #paincontrol #cancerpain #mentalclarity #PARCseminar
Interested in pain and opioid complexity in patients with cancer? Come hear @JessicaMerlinMD provide her expertise on the subject next Wed, 5/22, at noon! #PARCseminar #pain #cancerpatients #opioids tiny.ucsf.edu/TXwkZ7
The second-to-last PARC seminar of the year is next Wed 4/24! Join at noon to hear Judy Paice, PhD, RN, delve deep into "Cancer Pain and Opioids: Pandora's Box." See you there! #cancerpain #opioids #researchmedicine tiny.ucsf.edu/RiqxSe
So excited to share this article! This initiative began over 5 years ago through the UCSF Pain Medicine Committee! Thank you to my amazing @UCSFAnesthesia and @UCSFChildrens colleagues for this collaboration! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
We are recruiting an outstanding early-career neuroscientist investigating the neural circuit mechanisms of general anesthesia and pain perception. Learn more and apply here: aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF04878

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