In this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Natalia Morone, Carol Greco, and Kim Faurot will present “Initial Outcomes of the Optimizing Pain Treatment in Medical Settings Using Mindfulness (OPTIMUM) Pragmatic Trial.”
The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, September 12, 2025, at 1:00 pm eastern.
OPTIMUM, an NIH Collaboratory Trial, is studying the addition of mindfulness-based stress reduction to usual care for patients with chronic low back pain, compared with usual care alone, with the goal of improving pain outcomes and reducing opioid prescriptions. Learn more about OPTIMUM.
Morone, the principal investigator for OPTIMUM, is an associate professor of medicine at Boston University and a clinical general internist at Boston Medical Center. Greco is an associate professor of psychiatry and psychical therapy at the University of Pittsburgh. Faurot is an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.