NIH Pain Research Center Staff

The following people work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pain Research Center (PRC), the Clinical Investigations Branch (CIB) in the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Division of Intramural Research (DIR), and/or the Section on Affective Neuroscience and Pain (SANP) in the NCCIH DIR.

Staff

David Shurtleff, Ph.D., Acting Director

Miroslav “Misha” Bačkonja, M.D., Supervisory Physician, Acting Clinical Director

Eleni Frangos, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Lead Scientific Officer

Binquan Wang, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Senior Data Scientist

Hayley Owens, Clinical Research Coordinator and Sensory Testing Technician

Lauren Atlas, Ph.D., Tenure-Track Clinical Investigator, Chief, SANP

Alexander Chesler, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Chief, Section on Sensory Cells and Circuits

Leorey N. Saligan, Ph.D., Clinical Collaborator

Intramural Research Training Award Fellows

Nicholas Madian, Ph.D., Postdoc Fellow, PRC

Nwamaka Ijeh, Postbac Fellow, PRC

Haley Prakke, Postbac Fellow, PRC

Alumni

Eleanor Goulden, Postbac Fellow, PRC

Brendan Johns, Postbac Fellow, PRC 

Michelle Singh, Postbac Fellow, PRC

Eunice Chung, Postbac Fellow, PRC

Megan Bradson, Postbac Fellow, PRC

Meera Deva, Postbac Fellow, PRC