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Curriculum Vitae

Francis J. Keefe

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Box 90399, Durham, NC 27708-0399
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Education

Ph.D.Ohio University1975
M.S.Ohio University1973
B.A.Bowdoin College1971
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Wilbert E. Fordyce Clinical Investigator Award and Lecture, American Pain Society
Recent Grant Support

  • Neural correlates and behavioral impact of withdrawal-induced hyperalgesia among people who smoke with and without chronic pain, National Institutes of Health, 2025/04-2030/01.      
  • A Mobile Health Behavior Intervention to Reduce Pain and Improve Health-III (MORPH-III), Wake Forest University, 2024/09-2029/08.      
  • Predictors of Pain Severity and Pain-Related Outcomes in Individuals with Sickle Cell Disease, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 2023/08-2028/08.      
  • Innovative modeling of the biopsychosocial model in animals: Validation of outcomes for assessing emotional and cognitive domains affected by naturally occurring chronic pain in dogs, North Carolina State University, 2024/09-2027/08.      
  • Targeting Reinforcement Mechanisms for Smoking Cessation Using Very Low Nicotine Content Cigarettes in Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder and Chronic Pain, National Institutes of Health, 2024/09-2027/07.      
  • Stress Reactivity and Low Back Pain in Older Adults: Influences on Disability (ReLOAD), National Institute on Aging, 2022/09-2027/06.      
  • Web-based Pain Coping Skills Training to Improve Pain and Poor Adherence caused by Aromatase Inhibitor-Associated Arthralgia in Breast Cancer Survivors (SKIP-Arthralgia): A Randomized Controlled Trial, Northwestern University, 2022/06-2027/05.      
  • Specific and Shared Mechanisms Associated With Treatment for Chronic Neck Pain, Foundation for Physical Therapy, 2023/06-2027/02.      
  • Caregiver-assisted pain coping skills training for dementia, National Institutes of Health, 2024/09-2026/08.      
  • Diversifying and Strengthening Dementia Palliative Care Clinical Trials, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2022/06-2026/03.      
  • Persistent Post-Mastectomy Pain: Randomized Clinical Trial of Targeted Pain Coping Skills Training (Targeted-PCST) with Mediational Analysis, National Institutes of Health, 2020/04-2026/03.      
  • Improving Lung Transplant Outcomes with Coping Skills and Physical Activity, National Institutes of Health, 2019/05-2026/02.      
  • Improving Veteran Access To Integrated Management of Chronic Back Pain (AIM Back), National Institutes of Health, 2017/09-2026/02.      
  • An mHealth Symptom Management Intervention for Colorectal Cancer Patients, American Cancer Society, Inc., 2021/01-2025/12.      
  • A Mobile Health Behavioral Pain Intervention Protocol for Breast Cancer Patients with Pain in Medically Underserved Communities: A Randomized Controlled Trial, National Institutes of Health, 2020/01-2025/12.      
  • Couple Communication Skills Training for Advanced Cancer, National Institutes of Health, 2020/01-2025/12.      
  • Tailored Non-Pharmacotherapy Services for Chronic Pain: Testing Scalable and Pragmatic Approaches, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 2019/09-2025/09.      
  • Longitudinal Impact of Chronic Pain and its Management on Patient-centered Outcomes in Older Adults, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2021/09-2025/05.      
  • A Pragmatic Sequenced-strategy for Improving Outcomes in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis Pain, Johns Hopkins University, 2019/12-2025/04.      
  • Reducing the Transition from Acute to Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain among Older Adults, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2019/02-2024/11.      
  • Pain Response Evaluation of a Combined Intervention to Cope Effectively (PRECICE), Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, 2020/09-2024/08.      
  • Improving Symptom Management for Survivors of Young Adult Cancer, National Institutes of Health, 2019/09-2024/08.      
  • Using Very Low Nicotine Content Cigarettes as a Strategy to Disrupt the Pain-Smoking Reinforcement Cycle, National Institutes of Health, 2021/08-2024/07.      
  • UPENN Scientific and Data Research Center for the HOPE Consortium to Reduce Pain and Opioid Use in Hemodialysis, University of Pennsylvania, 2019/10-2024/05.      
  • Duke Pain Early-phase Research Clinical Center (PERC), National Institutes of Health, 2019/09-2024/03.      
  • Implementing and Evaluating mHealth Pain Coping Skills Training Interventions to Improve Self-management of Chronic Pain in Cancer Survivors in "Real World" Clinical Practice Settings, Wake Forest University School Of Medicine, 2019/08-2023/07.      
  • Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Sleep in Cancer, National Institutes of Health, 2021/04-2023/05.      
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