February 18, 2026: Applying Mind-Body Skills for Pain, in This Week’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds

In this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Diana Burgess, Roni Evans, and Katie Hadlandsmyth will present “Applying Mind-Body Skills for Pain Using a Whole Health Telehealth Intervention (RAMP): Early Progress and Lessons Learned.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, February 20, 2026, at 1:00 pm eastern.

RAMP, an NIH Collaboratory Trial, is evaluating the use of a 12-week mind-body skills training program for rural veterans with pain within the VA’s Whole Health initiative, including a one-on-one session with a Whole Health coach followed by 11 weekly group sessions to include prerecorded expert-led education videos, mind-body skills training and practice, and group discussions. The study is supported by within the NIH Collaboratory by a grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research.

Burgess is a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota and the director of the VA Advanced Fellowship Program in Health Systems Research. Evans is a research professor at the University of Minnesota and the director of their Integrative Health and Wellbeing Research Program. Hadlandsmyth is an associate professor at the University of Iowa.

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