Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dr. Cheatle is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Director of Behavioral Medicine at the Penn Pain Medicine Center, and Director of Pain and Chemical Dependency Research at the Center for Studies of Addiction, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been conducting research and providing clinical treatment of patients with chronic pain and co-morbid disorders including substance use disorders, HIV, mood disorders and sleep disorders as director of both university and community based interdisciplinary pain programs. His focus of research is in improving pain care to individuals from vulnerable populations (psychiatric, substance use disorders, HIV, sleep disorders) including developing strategies to identifying and mitigating the risks associated with opioid therapy and the risk of suicide in the pain population. Currently, Dr. Cheatle is co-investigator of a recently funded NIH R01 examining the role of opioid adherence profiles in cancer pain self – management and outcomes; co-investigator of the HOPE Consortium to Reduce Pain and Opioid Use in patients on Hemodialysis; co-investigator on a NIDA R21 assessing the effect cannabidiol in chronic non-cancer pain on chronic opioid therapy; and PI of a recently funded NIH/NINR R21 examining the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy delivered preoperatively to patients undergoing total knee arthroplasties in reducing post-operative pain, opioid use and the chronification of pain. He is Executive Editor of Pain Medicine, member of the Pennsylvania state opioid task force, past co-chair of a Pennsylvania state program to improve opioid prescribing practices, member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System Opioid Task Force and is involved in developing a core pain curriculum for medical, dental and nursing students at the University of Pennsylvania.
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