Alex and Maya were accepted for poster presentations at the 2024 United States Association for the Study of Pain. Poster topics include: - Exploring racial disparities in migraine diagnosis delays: Impact of the health provider - Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on symptomsic migraine days: Findings from the Migraine in...

Daniel was accepted for a poster presentation and brief talk at the 2024 Society for Behavioral Medicine conference for his work on Pain catastrophizing and helplessness: The Invisible threads linking spiritual wellbeing and pain perception. Daniel was awarded the Palliative Care SIG Best Student Award for this work.

Dustin Goerlitz is currently working as an intern at the University of Colorado School of Medicine: Department of Family Medicine Dallas Robinson and Sarah Wilson will begin internships at AF Williams Integrated Primary Care in the summer!

We would like to formally congratulate the several students in our lab who have recieved awards this year related to dissertaion or conference presentations! * Sarah Wilson recieved the APA Division 36 Student Research Award to help fund her disertation on Attentional Control and Chronic Pain Outcomes: The Impact of...

Student Projects Accepted for Presentation at the 2023 SBM Conference! Poster topics: - Compassion cultivation, anger, and emotional tension in migraine management: Results from a pilot study - The impact of misdiagnosis and comorbid diagnoses on women with rheumatoid arthritis: Implications for symptom severity, disability/life impact, and healthcare provider interactions...

Student Projects Accepted for Presentation at the 2022 SBM Conference! Poster topics: - Compassion Cultivation in Acute Migraine Pain Management: Results from a Pilot Study - Distress tolerance: Implications for opioid use disorder prevention in chronic pain management - Asking for pain medication: The effect of perceived judgment on patients...

Alex's undergraduate capstone essay was published in Columbia University's Portales Latin American and Iberian Cultures Undergraduate Journal . Read her article, The Importance of Race as Socioeconomic Status in the Origins of Latin America, in Portales Volume 5: Fall Edition .

Congrulations to Daniel, Sarah, and Dustin! Sarah Wilson defended her masters thesis on the role of distress tolerance in risk for opioid use disorder in people with chronic pain! Dustin Goerlitz defended his masters thesis on compassion-cultivation and anger in acute migraine pain management! Daniel Luedtke proposed his masters thesis...

Caitlin Kienzler will be working alongside Dr. Michelle Clementi on their CCTSI CMH grant: Sleep in Adolescent Girls with Migraine: Objective Measurement and Temporal Associations! This work will go towards Caitlin's doctoral disseration, with Dr. Wachholtz as the faculty mentor on the grant and Caitlin's dissertation. Caitlin's dissertation will specifically...