Martin D. Cheatle, PhD

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Bio 

Dr. Cheatle is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He directs the Pain and Chemical Dependency Research Program within the Center for Studies of Addiction and serves as Director of Behavioral Medicine in the PENN Anesthesia Pain Medicine Center. He has more than three decades experience in the treatment of complex chronic pain conditions, with a particular focus on research and treatment of opioid use disorders in patients with chronic pain, improving pain care and risk of suicide in patients with pain and substance use disorders. He was the PI of a recently completed RO1 NIDA grant on clinical and genetic characteristics of opioid addiction in chronic pain; PI of a grant examining the efficacy of various drug-monitoring matrices in detecting misuse of prescription opioids; a project PI of a NIDA P-60 Center grant on a longitudinal study of the development of addiction in patients initiating prescription opioid therapy for chronic pain in primary care; and as a co-investigator in the development of a patient centered medical home model for improved pain care. Currently he is a co-investigator of a recently funded NIH R01 examining the role of opioid adherence profiles in cancer pain self – management and outcomes; co-investigator of the HOPE Consortium to Reduce Pain and Opioid Use in patients on Hemodialysis; and PI of a recently funded NIH R21 examining the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy delivered preoperatively to patients undergoing total knee arthroplasties in reducing post-operative pain, opioid use and the chronification of pain.


Selected Publications

Cheatle, M.D., Gallagher, R.M., O’Brien, C.P. Low Risk of Producing an Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care by Prescribing Opioids to Prescreened Patients with Chronic Noncancer Pain. Pain Medicine, 19 (4): 764-773, 2018.

Cheatle, M.D., Compton, P.A., Dhingra, L., Wasser, T., O’Brien, C. Development of the Revised Opioid Risk Tool to Predict Opioid Use Disorder in Patients with Chronic Pain. Journal of Pain. 20 (7): 842-851, 2019.

Cheatle, M.D., Falcone, M., Lerman, C. Independent association of tobacco use with opioid use disorder in patients of European ancestry with chronic non-cancer pain. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 209, 2020.

Benville, J., Compton, P.A., Giordano, N., Cheatle, M.D. Social support in patients with chronic pain with and without opioid use disorder and role of medication for opioid use disorder. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2021, in press.


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