In April 2024, I attended the conference for the United States Association for the Study of Pain (USASP) in Seattle, Washington. This episode is the first in a series of interviews I conducted there, and features research on the role of skin cells in sickle cell and nerve pain, as well as risk and resilience factors that could contribute to prescription opioid misuse.

See the posters here: https://inplainenglishpod.org/2024/05/07/season-3-episode-16-interviews-in-pain-research-part-1/

Interview 1: Dianise Rodriguez Garica, a graduate student at the Medical College of Wisconsin, on the role of skin cells in sickle cell disease pain.

Interview 2: Christina Mecca, a gruaduate student at the Medical College of Wisconsin, on the role of skin cells in pain after nerve injury.

Interview 3: Eric Vilsmark, a medical student at the Frank Netter School of Medicine, on risk and resilience factors that predict opioid misuse among chronic pain patients.

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