We are a group of UCLA researchers, both students and faculty, sharing a common interest in the study and management of pain. We come from diverse academic backgrounds and apply quantitative and qualitative, basic science and clinical methods, to the problem of pain. Our vision is to make UCLA a major center for pain research and we strive to achieve this aim by encouraging scholarly discourse that transcends traditional academic domains.

We are conducting a research project on chronic pain in children, sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, and using narrative, linguistic, and statistical analysis to better understanding the sociocultural and medical dimensions of this understudied problem. Please contact us at the phone number above if you would like to know more about the details of the study.

The UCLA Biomedical Library houses the John C. Liebeskind Collection, the only history of pain archive in the world, a major collection of oral histories, documentary materials, rare books, and memorabilia related to the history of pain research and pain medicine. For more information,
see the website at: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/pain.html

Faculty and Staff:

Margaret Jacob, PhD, Professor, Department of History

Lonnie Zeltzer, MD, Professor, Pediatrics/Anesthesiology, UCLA Pediatric Pain Program

Heather Krell, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Marcia Meldrum, PhD, Lecturer, History; Co-Director, Liebeskind History of Pain Project

John Heritage, PhD, Professor, Sociology

Michael Nutkiewicz, PhD, Executive Director, Program for Torture Victims, Inc.

Ignasi Clemente, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Tim Curnen, Project Coordinator

Ryan Hodgkinson, Oral Historian

Marian Katz, Oral Historian

Su Kim, Staff Research Associate, Pediatric Pain Program

Tiffany Northcutt, Oral Historian

Howard Padwa, Oral Historian

Jennie Tsao, PhD, Assistant Researcher