Diana Burgess, a co–principal investigator of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory’s RAMP trial, will present the results of the precursor LAMP trial as part of the Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Systems Research Cyberseminars series.

The Learning to Apply Mindfulness to Pain (LAMP) trial is a multisite pragmatic clinical trial that compared 2 approaches for delivering mindfulness-based interventions via telehealth for veterans with chronic pain. Both interventions improved pain functioning and important biopsychosocial outcomes over 12 months when compared with usual care among veterans with chronic pain and high levels of psychiatric comorbidity. These approaches to delivering mindfulness-based interventions could help accelerate the implementation of nonpharmacologic pain treatment in the VA healthcare system and other healthcare systems.

Results from the Learning to Apply Mindfulness to Pain (LAMP) Study: A Pragmatic Clinical Trial
VA HSR Cyberseminars
Registration for the webinar is required.
Date and time: Thursday, June 20, 2024; 12:00-1:00 pm ET

Burgess is also a co–principal investigator of Reaching Rural Veterans: Applying Mind-Body Skills for Pain Using a Whole Health Telehealth Intervention (RAMP), an NIH Collaboratory Trial. RAMP will test the delivery of a modified version of the LAMP interventions for veterans in rural communities. Learn more about RAMP.

Burgess is the director of the VA Advanced Fellowship Program in Health Services Research in the Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research (CCDOR), the director of the VA’s QUERI Complementary and Integrative Health Evaluation Center (CIHEC), and a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota.