SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT: Dr. Jamie Rhudy - WHY THE NATIVE AMERICAN PAIN DISPARITY IS A SOCIAL PROBLEM

Speaker Spotlight: Dr. Jamie Rhudy - Why the Native American Pain Disparity is a Social Problem

Dr. Jamie L. Rhudy is a professor and licensed clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychology at the University of Tulsa. He has 25+ years of research experience in affective neuroscience, specifically focusing on the interface of emotion and pain processing. His goals are to identify mechanisms that contribute to and/or maintain chronic pain conditions, to develop non-invasive methods for assessing individuals at risk for developing chronic pain, and to improve the methods for studying nociceptive processing.