Circle of Care Council

COURSE DIRECTORS

Michael Robert Clark, MD, MPH
Associate Professor & Director
Chronic Pain Treatment Programs
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Baltimore, MD 21287-5371

Michael R. Clark is an Associate Professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. He is the Director of the Adolf Meyer Chronic Pain Treatment Programs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and has joint appointments in the Departments of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery in the School of Medicine and of Mental Hygiene in the Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Dr. Clark is consultation-liaison psychiatrist who specializes in the care of patients with chronic medical illnesses. He is a member of the Blaustein Pain Treatment Center, the Addiction Treatment Services program, and the Vestibular & Balance Disorders Center at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. These interdisciplinary efforts deliver comprehensive medical care to patients with disabling conditions that are particularly refractory to diagnosis and treatment.

A fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, Dr. Clark currently devotes his research work to psychiatric aspects of somatic symptoms such as chronic pain, including studies on neuropathic pain, substance abuse, and the phenomenology of depression in patients with chronic pain. He serves on the National Institutes of Health Division of Research Grants Risk Prevention and Health Behavior Study Section, and he has participated as an expert for in the design of Gulf War Specialized Health Care Centers with the U.S. Department of Defense.

Dr. Clark currently serves as an editorial reviewer for the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Psychosomatics, Archives of Family Medicine, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, General Hospital Psychiatry, and The Johns Hopkins University Press. He is a member of the International Association of the Study of Pain, the American Pain Society, the American Psychosomatic Society, and the American Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Clark received his MPH from the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle and his MD from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. He completed his internship and residency in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and his fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Clark completed his MBA from The Johns Hopkins University School of Professional Studies in Business and Education.

Daniel J. Clauw, MD
Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
Director, Michigan Institute for Health and Clinical Research
Director, Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Daniel J. Clauw, MD, is on the staff of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research. He is the Director of the University's Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, and the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center. Dr. Clauw's research interests are in fibromyalgia and central pain syndromes, stress, mechanisms of pain processing, and the treatment of chronic pain, and he has research support in the form of grants from institutions including the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. In addition to his research work and appointments at the University of Michigan, Dr. Clauw has served as a Visiting Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. In 2006, he was awarded the Nana Svartz Lecture of the Swedish Rheumatological Society at the Swedish Society of Medicine Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Dr. Clauw received his MD with honors from the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Rheumatology at Georgetown University Medical Center, where he was later appointed as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and an Instructor of Medicine. He is a member of the American Medical Association, American College of Rheumatology, American College of Physicians, American Federation for Medical Research, and the International Association for the Study of Pain.

Dr. Clauw is a co-editor of Arthritis and Rheumatism, and he is on the editorial boards of Arthritis Care and Research, Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain, and Current Rheumatology Reviews.

FACULTY

Lesley M. Arnold, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Women's Health Research Program
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, Ohio

Lesley M. Arnold, MD, is Director of Women's Health Research and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dr. Arnold earned her undergraduate degree at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and her medical degree at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Arnold then completed an internship in psychiatry at Barnes Hospital and the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She continued her training at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where she completed a residency in psychiatry and a clinical and research fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Dr. Arnold is the recipient of several awards and honors, including the Nancy C.A. Roeske, MD Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Education by the American Psychiatric Association, the Teacher of the Year Award by the Association for Academic Psychiatry, and the Raymond L. Cohen MD Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Dr. Arnold's research focuses primarily on fibromyalgia, women's health, and mood and anxiety disorders. She has received over 60 research grants as a principal investigator or co-investigator and has over 70 publications in such journals as Pain Medicine, The Journal of Rheumatology, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Arthritis and Rheumatism, Archives of General Psychiatry, and Pain. She has received NIH grant support for family and genetic studies of fibromyalgia and fibromyalgia clinical trials in adults and children. She has participated on the NIH Chronic Fatigue/Fibromyalgia Special Emphasis panel since 2000. She is on the editorial board for Pain Medicine News. Dr. Arnold is a frequently invited lecturer locally, nationally, and internationally on topics of fibromyalgia, mood disorders, and women's health.

B. Eliot Cole, MD, MPA
Executive Director
American Society of Pain Educators

B. Eliot Cole, MD, MPA is board certified in psychiatry and is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). He also holds a certified subspecialty in pain management from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Cole has been active in pain management since 1985, as a pain management fellow, a clinician, and as an active member of many pain-related organizations, eventually serving as Executive Director of the American Association of Pain Management, and currently as Executive Director of the American Society for Pain Educators (ASPE).

With an undergraduate degree from the University of California; Dr. Cole earned his MD from Wake Forest University School of Medicine; and his Master's in Public Administration (MPA) from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He performed residencies in both psychiatry and neurology at North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, and an anesthesia-related fellowship in pain management at the University of California at Los Angeles' Center for Health Sciences. The APA awarded Dr. Cole fellowship status in 1995 and Distinguished Fellow status in 2002.

Dr. Cole served as the Vice-Chair for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, the Medical Program Coordinator for the Nevada Division of Mental Hygiene and Mental Retardation, and the Medical Director and Administrative Officer for the Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services. He has worked as a consultation/liaison psychiatrist, developed rural gero-psychiatric services, has been a medical administrator, and has practiced as a hospice physician and a pain practitioner.

Dr. Cole lectures nationally and internationally on pain management, care of the terminally ill, psychiatric disorders, medical policy-making, and ethical issues. Author of numerous articles published in peer-reviewed journals, he also coedited Weiner's Pain Management, 7th ed (Boswell and Cole; CRC Press; 2007). Dr. Cole was recently named Visiting Scholar, Program in Brain-Mind and Healing Research, Departments of Medicine and Neurosciences and Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University Medical Center, and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Neurotechnology Studies of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (Arlington, VA).

Kurt Kroenke, MD
Department of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
Indiana University
Indianapolis, IN

Kurt Kroenke, M.D., is Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at Indiana University, and a Research Scientist in the Regenstrief Institute. He directs the Master of Science in Clinical Research degree program. He is a past President of the Society of General Internal Medicine, Immediate Past-President of the Association for Clinical Research Training, a past Council member of the Association of Subspecialty Professors, and a Master in the American College of Physicians (MACP)

His principal research interests include physical and psychological symptoms in medical patients including pain, depression, anxiety and somatization. He co-developed the PRIME-MD Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), which has become a widely-used clinical and research measure for diagnosing and monitoring common mental disorders in primary care. He has been a principal or co-investigator on multiple effectiveness trials for depression and recently pain, including IMPACT, RESPECT, AIM, ARTIST, SCAMP, and INCPAD. These trials have focused on primary care, geriatric, neurological, and cancer populations.

He was a member of the MacArthur Foundation Steering Committee on Depression in Primary Care, where he co-developed the Three-Component Model for enhancing depression care. Dr. Kroenke has served on the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) Services Research Initial Review Group. He has more than 230 peer-reviewed publications, has received sustained research funding from the NIH and other federal agencies, foundations, and industry, and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards.

Philip J. Mease, MD
Seattle Rheumatology Associates
Chief of Rheumatology Research
Swedish Hospital Medical Center Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Dr. Philip J. Mease is a clinical rheumatologist with Seattle Rheumatology Associates, clinical professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and chief of rheumatology clinical research at the Swedish Hospital Medical Center in Seattle. His primary research interests include pharmacotherapy of rheumatologic diseases and the methodology of disease assessment. He conducts clinical trials in emerging therapies for a number of conditions including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, fibromyalgia, systemic lupus erythematosus, osteoarthritis, and osteoporosis.

Dr. Mease has published more than 100 articles in rheumatology and dermatology journals as well as numerous textbook chapters and is on the review boards of Arthritis & Rheumatism, The Journal of Rheumatology, The Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, and Seminars in Arthritis & Rheumatism. Dr. Mease is on the medical advisory boards of several pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, the Lupus Foundation, the Psoriasis Foundation, the National Fibromyalgia Association, and the Northwest Arthritis & Osteoporosis Institute. He is co-chair of three working groups of OMERACT (Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Clinical Trials): psoriatic arthritis, fibromyalgia, and single joint assessment. He is significantly involved in clinical education as a faculty for both CME and non-CME educational initiatives regarding rheumatology and pain conditions and has been a recipient of the "Educatior of the Year" award from the American College of Rheumatology.

Dr. Mease received his BA and MD degrees from Stanford University. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he was subsequently chief resident and fellow in rheumatology.