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Vitaly Napadow, PhD, LAc

Board Member

Massachusetts General Hospital, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging - Boston, MA

Board Bio

Vitaly Napadow is Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, as well as Anesthesiology, at Harvard Medical School. He is also the Director of the Scott Schoen and Nancy Adams Discovery Center for Chronic Pain Recovery at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and the Center for Integrative Pain Neuroimaging (CiPNI) at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital.

He has been a pain neuroimaging researcher for more than 20 years. Somatosensory, cognitive, and affective factors all influence the malleable experience of chronic pain, and Dr. Napadow’s Lab has applied human functional and structural neuroimaging to localize and suggest mechanisms by which different brain circuitries modulate pain perception. Dr. Napadow’s neuroimaging research also aims to better understand how non-pharmacological therapies, from acupuncture and transcutaneous neuromodulation to cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness meditation training, ameliorate aversive perceptual states such as pain. Dr. Napadow has more than 250 publications in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, is past-President of the Society for Acupuncture Research, and is a Fellow and former executive board member of the US Association for the Study of Pain (USASP). He has served on numerous conference, journal, and NIH review panels.