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Advisory Committee

The HEAL K12 Advisory Committee provides strategic guidance to support the program’s quality, value, and continued development. Members serve on the application review study section, assist with matching scholars to mentors, and support scholars’ research training and career development.

The HEAL K12 Advisory Committee helps guide the program’s direction, processes, and overall quality. Committee members:

  • Serve as permanent members of the application review study section.
  • Advise on program development and improvement.
  • Provide a national network of potential mentors for scholars.
  • Support scholars and their mentoring teams in defining research, training, and career-development goals throughout the program.

Heal K12 Directors

David Williams, PhD

Professor of Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine-Rheumatology, Psychiatry, and Psychology, University of Michigan

Daniel Clauw, M.D.

Professor of Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine - Rheumatology, and Psychiatry, University of Michigan

Steven Harte, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine-Rheumatology, University of Michigan

HEAL K12 Advisory Committee

Kelley Kidwell, Ph.D.

U. Michigan - Statistics, clinical trials

Judy Paice, Ph.D., RN

Northwestern - Oncology pain, policy

Laura Frey-Law, Ph.D., MPT

U. Iowa - Physical therapy, rehab

Susmita Kashkar-Zuck, Ph.D.

U. Cincinnati - Pediatric pain

Rob Edwards, Ph.D.

Harvard - Psychosocial mechanisms

Yvonne Lee, MD, MMSc

Northwestern - RA, Rheumatology

Sam McLean, MD, MPH

UNC-Chapel Hill - ER trauma

Vitaly Napadow, Ph.D., LicAs

Harvard - Neuroscience

Andrea Chadwick, MD

U. Kansas - Anesthesiology, LGBTQ pain

Beth Darnall, Ph.D.

Stanford - Psychosocial interventions

HEAL K12 Advisory Committee Members with Lived Pain Experience

Shanna Katz Kattari, Ph.D.

Patient member of HEAL/BACPAC Patient Advisory Committee

Lynne Matallana

Founder, National Fibromyalgia Association

Christin Veasley

Founder, Chronic Pain Research Alliance

Tom Norris

Lt. Col., USAF (Retired), Pain Advocate

Laura VanAntwerp

Retired Schoolteacher, Pain Advocate

Linda Williams

Retiree from University of Michigan, Pain Advocate

Aryn Lee

Pre-Medical Student at Boston University, Chronic Pain Advocate

Helen "Skip" Skipper

ED - NYC Justice Peer Initiative Lived Experience Criminologist Subject Matter Expert Lived Expertise in Systems! Public Speaker

John Deuble

Patient member of HEAL/BACPAC Patient Advisory Committee