Ardith Doorenbos

September 5, 2024: Pragmatic Trial of Pain Management in a Military Population, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

Posted on by Damon Seils

Headshots of Ardith Doorenbos and Diane FlynnIn this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Ardith Doorenbos of the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Diane Flynn of Madigan Army Medical Center will present “Conventional, Complementary, and Integrative Pain Therapies in a Military Population With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Results of a Pragmatic Clinical Trial Using SMART Design.”

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, September 6, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Doorenbos is the Harriet H. Werley Endowed Chair for Nursing Research and a professor of behavioral nursing science in the School of Nursing at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is a co–principal investigator of GRACE, an NIH Collaboratory Trial. Flynn is a primary care pain management advisor in the Interdisciplinary Pain Management Center at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington.

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October 5, 2023: GRACE Trial Featured on CBS News Chicago for Sickle Cell Awareness Month

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The GRACE trial, an NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Trial, was featured in a segment on CBS News Chicago. Co–principal investigator Ardith Doorenbos was interviewed for the segment as part of the news program’s observance of Sickle Cell Awareness Month.

“Millions of people around the world with sickle cell disease really suffer from very serious chronic pain, which impacts all their life experiences,” Doorenbos said. “What the GRACE trial is doing is taking a look at 2 different nonpharmacological treatment modalities that we can use to better control pain.”

View the full news segment.

The GRACE trial is studying real-world implementation of acupuncture and guided relaxation for patients with pain associated with sickle cell disease. The study is supported by the NIH through the NIH HEAL Initiative under an award administered by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Learn more about the GRACE trial.