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Martin David Cheatle

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Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
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Director Behavioral Medicine, PENN Pain Medicine Center 2f University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 7
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Director Pain and Chemical Dependency Research, Center for Studies of Addiction 38 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine 7
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Department: Psychiatry
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40 California State University, Long Beach, 1976.
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2d Princeton University, 1979.
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24 48 NIH Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine 34 Department of Psychiatry , 1979-1981.
24 4e intern Clinical Psychology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 33 Department of Psychiatry, 1979-1981.
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Description of Research Expertise

39 Chronic Pain and Substance Use disorders
46 Depression and Suicidal Ideation in patients with chronic pain
21 Chronic post surgical pain
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Description of Clinical Expertise

56 Assessing and managing chronic pain from a biopsychosocial perspective
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Selected Publications

1e5 White DM, Kimmel PL, Dember LM, Wilkie C, Edwards DP, Williams J, Bernardo L, Quintana N, Cheatle MD, Lash JP, Fischer MJ, Schmidt R, Doorenbos A, Schrauben S, Johansen KL; HOPE Consortium, a member of the HEAL Initiative.: Patient Engagement in the Design and Conduct of the HOPE Trial: Addressing Chronic Pain in Hemodialysis Patients. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2025 Oct 1;20(10): Page: 1461-1469. October 2025.

11d Lee Y, Giordano NA, Compton PA, Tang NKY, Polomano RC, Cheatle MD. : Correlates of mental defeat in individuals with chronic non-cancer pain on long-term opioid therapy. Pain Med. Page: 576-582. September 2025.

fa Candon M, Dusek JA, Nielsen A, Cheatle M, Werner RM, Mandell D. : Cost Sharing for Acupuncture Therapy in Commercial Insurance Plans. Glob Adv Integr Med Health. August 2025.

100 Candon M, Sutherland T, Spataro Solorzano S, Mandell DS, Cheatle M. : Trends in Pain Care for Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain Between 2012 and 2021. J Gen Intern Med. Jul 2025.

270 Dember LM, Hsu JY, Mehrotra R, Cavanaugh KL, Kalim S, Charytan DM, Fischer MJ, Jhamb M, Johansen KL, Becker WC, Pellegrino B, Eneanya ND, Schrauben SJ, Pun PH, Unruh ML, Morasco BJ, Mehta M, Miyawaki N, Penfield J, Bernardo L, Brintz CE, Cheatle MD, Doorenbos AZ, Heapy AA, Keefe FJ, Krebs EE, Kuzla N, Nigwekar SU, Schmidt RJ, Steel JL, Wetmore JB, White DM, Kimmel PL, Cukor D; HOPE Consortium. : Pain Coping Skills Training for Patients Receiving Hemodialysis: The HOPE Consortium Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med 5(185): 609, May 1 2025.

192 Steel JL, Brintz CE, Heapy AA, Keefe F, Cheatle MD, Jhamb M, McNeil DW, Shallcross AJ, Kimmel PL, Dember LM, White DM, Williams J, Cukor D. : Adapting a pain coping skills training intervention for people with chronic pain receiving maintenance hemodialysis for end stage Kidney disease. J Behav Med. Page: 298-307. April 2025.

125 Themelis K, Gillett JL, Karadag P, Cheatle MD, Ilgen MA, Balasubramanian S, Singh SP, Tang NKY.: Mental Defeat Predicts Increased Suicide Risk in Chronic Pain: A 12-Month Prospective Study. Eur J Pain. February 2025.

14b Candon M, Nielsen A, Dusek JA, Spataro Solorzano S, Cheatle M, Neuman MD, Samitt C, Shen S, Werner RM, Mandell D.: Utilization of Reimbursed Acupuncture Therapy for Low Back Pain. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Aug 1;7(8):e2430906. JAMA Network Open 7(8), August 2024.

1ce Toikumo S, Vickers-Smith R, Jinwala Z, Xu H, Saini D, Hartwell E, Venegas MP, Sullivan KA, Xu K, Jacobson DA, Gelernter J, Rentsch CT; Million Veteran Program; Stahl E, Cheatle M, Zhou H, Waxman SG, Justice AC, Kember RL, Kranzler HR. : The genetic architecture of pain intensity in a sample of 598,339 U.S. veterans. Nat Med. 2024 Apr;30(4):1075-1084. Nature Medicine 30(4), April 2024.

131 Meghani SH, Quinn R, Robinson A, Chittams J, Vapiwala N, Naylor M, Cheatle M, Knafl GJ.: Trajectories and predictors of high-occurrence pain flares in ambulatory cancer patients on opioids. JNCI Caner Spectrum 8(1), January 2024.

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