Course 3: Advancing Comprehensive Pain Care: Multifaceted Strategies for Advocacy, Integration, and Sociocultural Awareness

Samantha Meints, PhD, is a pain psychologist and clinical researcher in the Pain Management Center at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on understanding psychosocial mechanisms influencing the experience and treatment of pain as well as the use of nonpharmacologic interventions to prevent and treat chronic pain. Dr. Meints trains clinical-scientists and the pre- and post-doctoral level.

Calia Torres is an Assistant Professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. She earned her doctorate degree (PhD) in Clinical Psychology from the University of Alabama. Prior to joining UAB, Dr. Torres completed a T-32 fellowship in translational clinical pain research at the Pain Research and Intervention Center of Excellence (PRICE) at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on developing culturally responsive pain assessment tools and psychosocial treatment for chronic pain for understudied populations. Dr. Torres is also interested in resilience research and identifying resilience factors protecting against the negative impact of pain on functioning. Dr. Torres utilizes an antiracism framework and community-engagement research practices to facilitate the implementation and sustainability of evidence-based treatments for chronic pain in medical and community settings. Dr. Torres has presented her work at national and international conferences and conducted trainings to teach others about psychosocial treatment for chronic pain management.

Antje Barreveld, MD, is the Medical Director of Pain Management Services at Newton-Wellesley Hospital and an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Barreveld’s clinical, leadership, and research interests are in pain management education, interventional pain management, chronic pelvic pain in men and women, acute and chronic postoperative pain, and safe practices in co-managing pain and addiction.

Caralyn Granato, PharmD, BCPP, BCPS is a clinical pharmacist specialist at Cambridge Health Alliance. Dr. Granato currently serves as an advanced practice pharmacist within the psychiatry and primary care departments through a collaborative practice agreement. In her role as a psychiatric pharmacist, Dr. Granato is also involved with the Pain and Addiction Support Services (PASS) and the Outpatient Addictions Service (OAS).

Laura Meyer-Junco, PharmD, BCPS, CPE, FASCP is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Pharmacy and practices as a Clinical Pharmacist with Mercyhealth's Hospice and Inpatient/Outpatient Palliative Care Program as well as with St. Croix Hospice in Rockford, IL. She teaches in the pain and geriatric PharmD curriculum at UIC and is also faculty of the University of Maryland's Graduate Program in Palliative Care Studies. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy and Secretary of the Society of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacists. She has a special interest in pain self-management and pain neuroscience education and facilitates a six-week pain self-management workshop for patients with chronic pain.

Cindy Steinberg is the National Director of Policy & Advocacy at the U.S. Pain Foundation, where she passionately advocates for the rights of individuals living with chronic pain. Cindy’s advocacy includes a notable testimony before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on “Managing Pain During the Opioid Crisis,” where she was the sole patient advocate invited to speak. Additionally, she was appointed to the Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and served a three-year term on the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee.

Salome Bwayo Weaver is a tenured professor of pharmacy practice at Howard University College of Pharmacy. She currently practices as a clinical pharmacist in the Howard University Hospital sickle cell clinic and provides medication reconciliation services to patients in the oncology outpatient clinic while precepting pharmacy students and residents. She became board-certified in geriatric pharmacy in 2014 and has been an active member of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) since 2009. She was selected as an ASCP Fellow in November 2020.

Michelle Matthews, PharmD, BCACP, FASHP, Vice Chair and Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, has extensive experience in pain management and for the past 12 years has served as an advanced practice pharmacist specializing in chronic noncancer pain and substance use disorders within a collaborative care model at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is past president of the Society of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacists and has received multiple awards for her teaching and innovative clinical services.

Stephen Cina,, DAIH, MAOM, Lic. Ac., ATC, NASM CES, Assistant Professor, New England School of Acupuncture at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, specializes in integrating East Asian and allopathic medical approaches for the treatment of orthopedic conditions and pain disorders. He is a member of the MCPHS Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (CIPE), Faculty Advisor to the Interprofessional Healthcare Forum (IPHF), and Student Association of the New England School of Acupuncture (SANESA). Since 2001, Dr. Cina has treated numerous patients, from professional athletes to those with chronic and debilitating pain conditions and has taken an interprofessional approach to working with healthcare providers.

Roseann S. Donnelly,, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS is an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also the co-founder and lead clinical pharmacist for the Pharmacogenomics Clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Donnelly is a Board-Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist, an elected Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, and a nationally recognized expert in the field of pharmacogenomics. She received her Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemistry and Biochemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her post-graduate training includes a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice residency at the University of North Carolina Medical Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and a PGY2 specialty residency in Clinical Pharmacogenetics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

Carolyn Hall,, PharmD, BCPS, Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Practice at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, has extensive experience as an inpatient acute care pharmacist after graduating from MCPHS. She returns after more than 10 years of pharmacy practice experience at various institutions in Massachusetts. Dr. Hall teaches students how to round with an inpatient internal medicine team at a community teaching hospital. Teaching is her passion, and she enjoys helping the next generation of pharmacists prepare for success in their careers.

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