UCSFPARC @UCSFPARC
The UCSF Pain and Addiction Research Center (PARC) aims to provide a unified response to two major public health challenges: chronic pain and addiction. painaddiction.ucsf.edu San Francisco Joined April 2023-
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Did you miss any of our seminars from pain and addiction medicine thought leaders this year? Many of our seminars have been recorded and are available on our website: painaddiction.ucsf.edu/past-parc-semi… #painmedicine #addictionresearch
Join us on 4/27 at Noon for: "Joint Pain Matters: Lessons Learnt from Osteoarthritis," presented by Anne-Marie Malfait, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine at Rush University, Chicago, IL. Learn more and register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine
Today we recognize and sincerely thank our administrative staff for the essential work you do every day.. Your contributions are foundational to our success, and we continue to be impressed by the impact you make across all aspects of our work! #AdministrativeProfessionalsDay
Congratulations, Dr. Shirvalkar!
Dr. Prasad Shirvalkar has been awarded the Founders Award by the @AmerAcadPainMed. The Founders Award recognizes clinical excellence and innovation in the practice of pain medicine. Read more about the awards: painmed.org/awards-2026/ #UCSFProud #PainMedicine
Join us on Wednesday 4/22 at Noon for our next seminar: "Intersection of hyperalgesia and hyperkatifeia as a driving force for negative reinforcement in addiction," presented by Dr. George F. Koob. Learn more and register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #addictionscience
Join us on Wed 3/25 at Noon for: "Buprenorphine inductions: low dose, high dose, direct-to-inject, and everything in between," presented by Drs. Leslie Suen, Damian Peterson, and Sarah Rosenwohl-Mack. Learn more and register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine #Buprenorphine
Join us on Monday 2/23 at Noon for our next seminar: "Low-intensity focused ultrasound for substance use disorders and beyond" by Khaled Moussawi, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco. Register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine
Congratulations to PARC Member @AashishManglik, MD, PhD!
We are pleased to announce that @AashishManglik, MD, PhD, has been awarded the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in recognition of his transformative work in cellular signaling. Read the full announcement: pharmacy.ucsf.edu/news/2026/01/a…
Join us on Wed 1/28 at Noon for: "The orphan receptors GPR63 and GPR153 enhance antinociception in pathological pain by suppressing microglial activation in the murine spinal cord" by @JohnStreicher1, PhD, Professor, U of A. Register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine
Join us on Wed 12/10 at Noon for: "Endogenous opioids orchestrate aversive and reward learning processes in the amygdala" by Elena Bagley, PhD, Professor, Sydney Pharmacy School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney. tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine
Join us on Wed 11/12 at Noon for our next seminar: "A neural basis for descending pain modulation at the single cell level" presented by Patrik Ernfors, PhD. Learn more and register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine
Join us on Wed 10/22 at Noon for the first seminar in our 2025-2026 series, entitled: "Probing the Role of Extended Amygdala Circuitry in Behavior," presented by Thomas Kash, PhD. Learn more and register: ucsf.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #painmedicine
Proud to see Dr. @PrasadShirvalka and his work featured on CNN's "Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: It Doesn't Have to Hurt." The episode aired on Sept 7. Look for the full episode on CNN on demand. #UCSFProud #PainMedicine #CNN @UCSF @UCSFHospitals youtu.be/LqKuuYN-L3o
Dr. @PrasadShirvalka has been featured in a New York Times article about personalized deep brain stimulation. The results of Dr. Shirvalkar's groundbreaking clinical trial in this area are currently available in pre-print. Read more: anesthesia.ucsf.edu/dbs #painmedicine
Join us as we celebrate the research of Dr. Howard Fields, Professor Emeritus, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Neurology, and Physiology. Monday, July 14, 2025 | 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. (PDT) Sandler Auditorium, or via Zoom For more info: anesthesia.ucsf.edu/fields
Join us on Wed 5/28 at Noon for our next seminar: "Harnessing Health Signals with Large-Scale Mobile Sensor Data for Modeling Substance Use Disorder" presented by @TRahmanRifat, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCSD. Learn more and register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine
Join us on Wed 4/23 at Noon for our next seminar: "ACVR1 sensory neuron-specific signaling in neuropathic pain and injury-induced heterotopic ossification" presented by Xiaobing Yu, MD. Learn more and register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine
We hope to see you at the 2025 PARC Neuromodulation Symposium. Featuring presentations from nationally recognized clinicians and scientists! April 26 | 8 AM-1:30 PM | Sandler Neurosciences Center & Zoom Register painaddiction.ucsf.edu/events/2025-PA… #clinicalresearch #painmedicine
Proud to see Dr. Prasad Shirvalkar interviewed for a recent New York Times article by Nina Agrawal entitled, "What Works for Low Back Pain? Not Much, a New Study Says." Read more: anesthesia.ucsf.edu/nyt3_18 #painmedicine #UCSFProud
Join us on Wed 3/26 at Noon for our next seminar: "Optimizing the use of ketamine to reduce chronic postsurgical pain in women undergoing mastectomy for oncologic indication" presented by Jing Wang, MD, PhD. Learn more and register: tiny.ucsf.edu/PARCSeminar #painmedicine
John Streicher @JohnStreicher1
3K Followers 966 Following Biomedical scientist in chronic pain, opioids, and cannabinoids. Trans rights are human rights. Protect trans kids. Solidarity forever ✊. He/him
Kazuhito Morioka, MD,... @KazuhitoMorioka
2K Followers 7K Following Assistant Professor @ UCSF Orthopaedic Surgery 🇺🇸 整形外科専門医・医学博士 🇯🇵 ／ 海外日本人研究者ネットワーク（UJA）理事 ／ DOCSF JAPAN Co-Chair ／ Focus Academy Faculty ／ 在外公館 科学技術フェロー🏈49
Emilia Marvin @EmiliaMarv92701
134 Followers 5K Following
Tauhidur Rahman @TRahmanRifat
627 Followers 602 Following Assistant Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute @HDSIUCSD, University of California San Diego. Formerly Google Ph.D. Fellow, @umasscs, @cornell and MSR.
Anusha Allawala, PhD @neuronush
493 Followers 806 Following Postdoc @ChangLabUCSF | BME PhD @BrownUniversity | iEEG + behavior in psychiatric neuromodulation 🧠⚡️ | @NIH DSPAN K00 fellow
Élora Midavaine @EloraMidavaine
178 Followers 322 Following Postdoc @UCSF | Chronic pain | Meningeal Tregs 🐭🧠
epigiant @epiUsfg
42 Followers 6K Following
Alternative Health @AHCareConcepts
7K Followers 7K Following Holistically blending knowledge of Chinese Medicine with Acupuncture, Energetic Healing, Indigenous Medicine & other revolutionary natural healing techniques!
Yenisel Cruz-Almeida ... @Yenisel_CruzA
507 Followers 334 Following Translational neuroscientist and neuroepidemiologist taking an aim at pain's burden in society.
Alice @AllisonAss73319
32 Followers 2K Following
Alina @smootoshey8291
88 Followers 7K Following Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.
Michael Ray @MichaelRayDC
2K Followers 1K Following 👨🏼🏫Assistant Research Professor 🔎Pain researcher studying acute ➡️ chronic pain in dept of emergency medicine 👨⚕️Doctor of Chiropractic
Alice @RiveraSama35460
27 Followers 1K Following
Alice @king_danie57711
31 Followers 2K Following
Laura López Gonzále... @LLopezGonzalez
8K Followers 5K Following Health & science writer ✍🏼 Al Jazeera, Guardian, The New Republic, El Pais et al. | Posting on @llopezgonzalez.bsky.social
Noah Bonnheim @NBonnheim
92 Followers 155 Following Postdoc @UCSFOrthosurg interested in biomechanics, physiology, and the spine
Ismail A. Ibrahim @ismailamehesen
415 Followers 2K Following Clinical Neuroscience Researcher | Neurorehabilitation & Neuromodulation | Peer Review 🔍 Founder/CEO - @gayr_official #NeuroTwitter | #MedTwitter | #PTTwitter
NblLl_70 @Nblll763297
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cheeto’s crooked ta... @boocoli_
27 Followers 1K Following
Anastasia Keller @_myanastasi
104 Followers 189 Following Neuroscientist @NeurosurgUCSF •spinal cord injury •maladaptive plasticity •pain •neuromodulation | nature lover | EDM all day long
UCSF Critical Care Me... @ucsfccm
1K Followers 666 Following Official account of Adult Critical Care Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, providing research updates, team highlights, and fellowship insights.
Amber Borucki, MD @AmberBoruckiMD
873 Followers 804 Following Pediatric Pain Physician. Anesthesiologist. Patient Advocate. Equestrienne. Views are my own and do not reflect my employer. My opinions are not medical advice.
Kelly Knight @kellyrayknight
1K Followers 1K Following medical anthropology, substance use, homelessness, harm reduction | Professor @UCSF | Associate Director at @UCSFBHHI | Author of addicted.pregnant.poor |
USASP PsyFi Sig @PsyFi_SIG_USASP
37 Followers 208 Following We seek to understand the role of psychosocial factors and interventions in the pain experience through research, practice, education, training, and advocacy.
Futurecloud @Futurecloud_in
490 Followers 1K Following As your #Salesforce consulting partners, we help #healthcare and #lifesciences companies #develop custom #cloud solutions that ensure customer #success
sakura kinjo @SakuraKinjo
121 Followers 75 Following Passion: pain management, Love: ultrasound @UCSFAnesthesia
Burel Goodin @PainBurel
977 Followers 716 Following Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University Pain Center. @WashUPain @WUSTL_AnesRsrch Focused on better understanding pain and how people experience it.
UCSF Musculoskeletal ... @ucsfmskcenter
314 Followers 142 Following UCSF Musculoskeletal Center nucleates musculoskeletal research, education, and advocacy to connect investigators to @UCSF pioneers across the research spectrum.
Kelsey Collins @KelseyHCollins
2K Followers 1K Following #fatchat and novel therapies for OA/RA structure and pain Assistant Professor @UCSFMSKCenter Musculoskeletal #Crosstalk
Adriana Angarita-Fons... @adriangarita
4K Followers 4K Following Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada 🏳️🌈 #Epidemiology #Physiotherapy #Pain #CardiovascularEpidemiology #SGBA #EpiTwitter •She/Her• MyViews
Andrew Auerbach @ADAuerbachMD
852 Followers 680 Following Hospitalist, researcher, digital health innovator.
MATSA @MATSA_livefree
214 Followers 890 Following A grassroots Harm Reduction Org by/for People on MOUD & PWUD providing Support, Education, Awareness & Advocacy as we fight to END to the War on US.
Fareha Nishat @fareha_nis
139 Followers 274 Following chronic disease epidemiology, chronic pain, disability, child and adolescent health | PhD student @UofT_dlsph | MPH @UofT_dlsph | HBSc @UTSC | she/her 🇧🇩
Sensory Neurophysiolo... @SikandarLab
416 Followers 278 Following The Sikandar group based at the William Harvey Research Institute, interested in the neuronal mechanisms of musculoskeletal pain.
Tim Deer @doctdeer
6K Followers 5K Following Physician, Husband, Father, Triathlete, Ultra-runner, Ironman Foundation Ambassador, #neuromodulation, Chairman American Society of Pain and Neuroscience
Namrata GR Raut (she/... @NamrataGRRaut
592 Followers 603 Following ResearchFellow @JankowskiLab @CincyChildrens #endNF1 #epigenetics #SEMOalum #TWUalum NeuroscientistInProgress 📍#Nepal🇳🇵to 📍#USA🇺🇸 Views are mine
Paramita Basu @ParamitaBasu21
132 Followers 136 Following @txwomans alum | Research Assistant Professor @Pittanes @PCPRpgh | pain neurobiology | Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan
FAER @FAERanesthesia
5K Followers 1K Following FAER is a non-profit, related foundation of the ASA (@ASALifeline), that aims to advance medicine through research & education in anesthesiology.
Madison Ballacchino @MMBallacchino
325 Followers 712 Following M3 @Jacobs_Med_UB | Aspiring Anesthesiologist | FAER Anesthesia Research @DartmouthAnesth | @ASALifeline Medical Student Delegate | Marathon Runner 🏃🏻♀️
Emmett Whitaker, MD, ... @ewhitakermd
2K Followers 2K Following PGY13 peds anesthesiologist & physician-scientist @HopkinsACCM studying anesthesia & CBF in neonates/infants. APD for JH Peds Anes Fellowship. Tweets my own.
Crystal Joseph, MD @CrystalJosephMD
803 Followers 2K Following PGY-4/CA-3 Anesthesia Resident @BIDMCAnesthesia via @DrexelMedicine ‘22 | Incoming Pain Fellow @BrighamWomens | Mentorship | Dancer 💃🏽 views = my own
Dr. Rachel Zoffness @DrZoffness
17K Followers 4K Following Pain scientist. Psychologist. Lecture @Stanford & @UCSFmedicine. Disruptor. Author 📚Tell Me Where It Hurts. Neuroscience nerd 🧠 #SciComm #MedEd
Anastasia Keller @_myanastasi
104 Followers 189 Following Neuroscientist @NeurosurgUCSF •spinal cord injury •maladaptive plasticity •pain •neuromodulation | nature lover | EDM all day long
Beth Darnall, PhD @BethDarnall
10K Followers 1K Following Professor • Director, Stanford Pain Relief Innovations Lab • Chief Science Advisor: AppliedVR • Writing about pain, stress, health & solutions
Ayesha Appa @AyeshaAppaMD
1K Followers 790 Following Assistant Professor @UCSF in HIV/ID + Addiction Med, researching infections related to substance use and safety net. i.e., bugs and drugs. Opinions my own.
Shan Meltzer @shanmeltzer
4K Followers 2K Following Assistant Professor @VanderbiltU. HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow. Studying the development of touch and pain sensation. Hiring at all levels! #FirstGen #INFJ
Futurecloud @Futurecloud_in
490 Followers 1K Following As your #Salesforce consulting partners, we help #healthcare and #lifesciences companies #develop custom #cloud solutions that ensure customer #success
Tommy Brothers @tdbrothers
4K Followers 4K Following MD, PhD, FRCPC | general internal medicine & addiction medicine doctor @healthns | social epidemiologist & health services researcher @dalhousieu
Oanh Kieu Nguyen, MD @OanhKieuNguyen
755 Followers 301 Following #UCSF #ZSFG #HospitalMedicine MD-HSR researcher committed to social justice & health equity! Research on SDoH, readmissions.
Ro Giuliano @GunnarStardust
7 Followers 29 Following
Laura Thomas @lthomas
1K Followers 2K Following “sipping my evidence-based tea and knitting some harm-reduction strategies" Queer. Birder. Mefite. ACT UP alum. She/her.
Kelly Knight @kellyrayknight
1K Followers 1K Following medical anthropology, substance use, homelessness, harm reduction | Professor @UCSF | Associate Director at @UCSFBHHI | Author of addicted.pregnant.poor |
Burel Goodin @PainBurel
977 Followers 716 Following Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University Pain Center. @WashUPain @WUSTL_AnesRsrch Focused on better understanding pain and how people experience it.
Andrew Auerbach @ADAuerbachMD
852 Followers 680 Following Hospitalist, researcher, digital health innovator.
Kelsey Collins @KelseyHCollins
2K Followers 1K Following #fatchat and novel therapies for OA/RA structure and pain Assistant Professor @UCSFMSKCenter Musculoskeletal #Crosstalk
Weill Cornell Medicin... @WCMAnesthesia
2K Followers 613 Following The Department of Anesthesiology @WeillCornell | We are leaders in clinical care, teaching and research.
Lucy Zumwinkle Kornbl... @LucyKornblith
2K Followers 546 Following Mom, Wife, Trauma Surgeon Scientist, Director of Research for UCSF@ZSFG Vice Dean’s Office. Tweets are my own. She/her/hers :: @KornblithLab
Grayken Center for Ad... @GraykenBMC
1K Followers 614 Following On a mission to ensure treatment and support is available to every person with substance use disorder @The_BMC.
Chronic Pain Network @cpn_rdc
5K Followers 1K Following Working with patients as partners to identify priorities and new treatments in the prevention and management of chronic pain in Canada.
Tasce Bongiovanni, MD... @TasceB
957 Followers 572 Following Diné. Trauma & Acute Care Surgeon. Health Services Research focused on Aging & Vulnerable populations. Indigenous rights. Mom of 3 🤹🏽💜💜💜 Runner 🏃🏾♀️
CSA @CSAHQ
4K Followers 2K Following A physician organization dedicated to promoting the highest standards of the profession of anesthesiology. CSA Podcast-Vital Times: https://t.co/txU3pwu5y8
Danielle Holland, MD @DLHollandMD
267 Followers 307 Following Cardiac anesthesiologist🫀& intensivist🫁 | @ucsfccm @ucsfanesthesia alum
Maria Bustillo, MD, F... @DrMariaBustillo
449 Followers 230 Following Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Chief of Division of Neuroanesthesiology @wcmanesthesia; opinions are my own.
Mayo Clinic Office of... @MayoBelonging
1K Followers 618 Following Official @MayoClinic Office of Belonging account. | #EverybodyIN
Paul Joudrey @PaulJoudreyMD
917 Followers 493 Following Primary care + addiction medicine + health services researcher @PittGIM and @YaleADM @NCSP_Yale and @MontePCSIM alum - liberate #methadone + #ruralhealth
Jenson Wong, MD @jensonw74
255 Followers 776 Following @ZSFG_anesthesia Critical Care Anesthesiologist and Informaticist. Tweets are my own. @PSLSwim board member. Less hair and less money than that Nvidia guy
Adriana Angarita-Fons... @adriangarita
4K Followers 4K Following Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada 🏳️🌈 #Epidemiology #Physiotherapy #Pain #CardiovascularEpidemiology #SGBA #EpiTwitter •She/Her• MyViews
Sensory Neurophysiolo... @SikandarLab
416 Followers 278 Following The Sikandar group based at the William Harvey Research Institute, interested in the neuronal mechanisms of musculoskeletal pain.
Women in Anesthesiolo... @womenMDinanesth
6K Followers 986 Following 👩🏻⚕️👩🏼⚕️👩🏿⚕️👩🏾⚕️👩🏽⚕️ Advocacy & Professional Development of Women Physician Anesthesiologists Since 2015 Register #WIA2025: https://t.co/bRkL1ewq1f
Veena Graff MD, FASRA @VeenaGraffMD
3K Followers 1K Following Vice Chair of Clinical Operations | Associate Professor @JeffAnesthesia @JeffersonUniv @TJUHospital
Dr. Alexandra Neville @neville_alex
430 Followers 362 Following Postdoctoral Fellow @StanfordMed @BPPLab Pronouns: she/her
BPP Lab @BPPLab
544 Followers 31 Following Biobehavioral Pediatric Pain Lab. Striving to improve the lives of children with chronic pain through innovative research and treatment.
Namrata GR Raut (she/... @NamrataGRRaut
592 Followers 603 Following ResearchFellow @JankowskiLab @CincyChildrens #endNF1 #epigenetics #SEMOalum #TWUalum NeuroscientistInProgress 📍#Nepal🇳🇵to 📍#USA🇺🇸 Views are mine
Raj Gupta, MD, FASRA @dr_rajgupta
6K Followers 2K Following Tweets are my own & not medical advice. Professor of Anesthesiology at VUMC. Photographer. Educator. Host of ASRA RAPP podcast. Developer for ASRA apps.
Dr. Lauren Harrison @harrison_laur
833 Followers 1K Following Assistant Professor @stanfordmed working w/youth w/chronic pain & their families in the @BPPLab | pain psychologist at @stanfordanes | pronouns: she/her 🏳️🌈
Doug Wright, PhD @DEW_Neuropathy
1K Followers 2K Following Professor & Vice Chair of Research | @KU_Anesthesia | @KUMedCenter | Neuropathy and Pain | Sensory Biology | Epidermal Innervation | PI of the @KansasINBRE
Nackley Lab @Nackley_Lab
579 Followers 442 Following Translational Pain Research Laboratory | Chronic Primary Pain Conditions | β3-adrenergic Receptor | Account does not represent opinion of Duke
Melissa Lenert, PhD @meleliza721
191 Followers 706 Following @lab_nib at UT-Dallas. NIH/NINDS D-SPAN Scholar. Studying neuroimmune and endocrine mechanisms in pain and physiology. Dog mom to Luna.
Research Society on A... @RSOADiversity
551 Followers 412 Following Chair - Allison Augustus-Wallace, PhD. Working to enhance diversity, promote equity, and foster a welcoming and inclusive climate in addiction science.
Patrick Mulholland @MulhollandLab
2K Followers 1K Following Alcohol Addiction Neuroscientist at a Medical University in Charleston SC; tweets are my own; part time taxi driver for 3 active student-athletes
Tim Deer @doctdeer
6K Followers 5K Following Physician, Husband, Father, Triathlete, Ultra-runner, Ironman Foundation Ambassador, #neuromodulation, Chairman American Society of Pain and Neuroscience
USASP Substance Use &... @USASP_SubUseSIG
247 Followers 265 Following USASP Substance use & Addiction SIG: We aim to advance the understanding and treatment of substance use and pain.
Crystal Joseph, MD @CrystalJosephMD
803 Followers 2K Following PGY-4/CA-3 Anesthesia Resident @BIDMCAnesthesia via @DrexelMedicine ‘22 | Incoming Pain Fellow @BrighamWomens | Mentorship | Dancer 💃🏽 views = my own
Justice Community Opi... @jcoinctc
187 Followers 67 Following JCOIN is a program supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Spinal Cord Group @spinalcordgroup
768 Followers 458 Following Twitter feed for the University of Glasgow, Spinal Cord Research Group, based within the @UofG_CfN
Kyle Lakatos MD MPP M... @KyleLakatos
618 Followers 542 Following 🏳️🌈 Physician and Aspiring Politician | PGY1 | Advocate for #SocialJustice, #HealthEquity, and #SustainableHealthcare | views are my own | (he/him)
Yenisel Cruz-Almeida ... @Yenisel_CruzA
507 Followers 334 Following Translational neuroscientist and neuroepidemiologist taking an aim at pain's burden in society.
Aubin Moutal @AubinMoutal
478 Followers 438 Following Assistant professor at Saint Louis University @SLUsom @SLUNasrallah. Mechanisms of autoimmunity leading to chronic pain.
UC San Diego Health @UCSDHealth
23K Followers 692 Following We're ranked the #1 hospital system in San Diego by U.S. News & World Report and have an expanding network of primary care doctors and top-ranked specialists.
UC Berkeley @UCBerkeley
244K Followers 668 Following Official account of the University of California, Berkeley. Home of the @CalAthletics Golden Bears. 🐻 #BerkeleyNews #GoBearsYou might like
