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 Chief, CIB; Acting Director, PRC
Miroslav “Misha” Bačkonja, M.D., Supervisory Physician, Acting Clinical Director, CIB, PRC
Linda Ellison-Dejewski, N.P., Deputy Clinician, CIB, PRC, SANP
Bisi Ayodele, N.P., C.R.N.P., Nurse Practitioner, CIB, PRC, SANP
Zahid Noor, Ph.D., Protocol Navigator, CIB, PRC, SANP
Hayley Owens, Clinical Research Coordinator and Sensory Testing Technician, CIB, PRC, SANP
Binquan Wang, Ph.D., Senior Data Scientist, PRC
Nicholas Madian, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, PRC
Alexander Chesler, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Chief, Section on Sensory Cells and Circuits, PRC
Lauren Atlas, Ph.D., Tenure-Track Clinical Investigator, Chief, SANP, PRC
Qingbao Yu, Ph.D., Senior Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Analyst, SANP
Eleni Frangos, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Lead Scientific Officer, PRC
Fellows
Eleanor Goulden, Postbaccalaureate (Postbac) Fellow, PRC
Nwamaka Ijeh, Postbac Fellow, PRC
Brendan Johns, Postbac Fellow, PRC
Nicholas Madian, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, PRC
Haley Prakke, Postbac Fellow, PRC
Michelle Singh, Postbac Fellow, PRC
Titilola Akintola, Ph.D., Visiting Fellow, SANP
Sabrina Barhoum, Postbac Fellow, SANP
Maya Delity, Postbac Fellow, SANP
Troy Dildine, Predoctoral Fellow, SANP
Julie Parsons, Postbac Fellow, SANP
Julio Yanes, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, SANP
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