Zoom Pain Rounds - Sean Mackey, MD, PhD “Learning Health Systems for Optimized Care and Innovative Research”
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Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, is Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine and Redlich Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Mackey received his BSE and MSE in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as his MD, from the University of Arizona. He completed his Anesthesiology residency and Pain Medicine fellowship at Stanford and joined the faculty in 1999.
Under Dr. Mackey’s leadership, the Stanford Pain Management Center has been twice designated a Center of Excellence by the American Pain Society for the Center’s innovative approach in comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and outcomes-based care. He has served as principle investigator on multiple NIH awards where he has overseen efforts to map the specific regions of the brain and spinal cord that perceive and process pain.
Dr. Mackey is author of over 200 journal articles and book chapters in addition to numerous national and international lectures. Currently, he is developer of a free, open-source learning health system—CHOIR (http://choir.stanford.edu)—to transform the care of people with pain, and serve as a platform for research in real-world clinic patients.
Dr. Mackey is Past-President of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM). He co-authored the Institutes of Medicine’s report on Relieving Pain in America. He was Co-Chair of the Oversight Committee for the HHS/NIH National Pain Strategy (NPS), an effort to establish a national health strategy for pain care, education and research. He has received multiple awards for leadership, teaching, research and clinical care. In the last two years he has received the American Pain Society Wilbert E. Fordyce Clinical Investigator Award; the AAPM Pain Medicine Fellowship Award and Distinguished Service Award, and the NIH Directors’ Award for his efforts on the NPS.
