Our Collaborators

School of Public Health Experts

Mark Bicket, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy

Kao-Ping Chua, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy 

Yi Li, PhD
M. Anthony Schork Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Global Public Health  

Jeffrey McCullough, PhD
Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy

University of Michigan Experts

Chad M. Brummett, MD
Senior Associate Chair for Research, Bert N. La Du Professor of Anesthesiology, Professor of Anesthesiology

Dr. Brummett is a Professor at the University of Michigan where he serves as the Senior Associate Chair for Research. He has more than 250 publications, including articles in top journals such as JAMA, JAMA Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Annals of Surgery. He is the Co-Director of the Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (OPEN) at the University of Michigan, which aims to apply a preventative approach to the opioid epidemic in the US through appropriate prescribing after surgery, dentistry, and emergency medicine. In addition, his research interests include predictors of acute and chronic post-surgical pain and failure to derive benefit from interventions and surgeries primarily performed to treat pain. In particular, Dr. Brummett is interested in the impact of a fibromyalgia-like or centralized pain phenotype on analgesic outcomes. He is the Co-PI of multiple NIH grants studying these concepts, and also receives funding from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, SAMHSA, CDC, and multiple foundations.

External Experts

Kosali Simon, PhD
Indiana University
Distinguished Professor; Herman B Wells Endowed Professor; Paul O’Neill Chair; Associate Vice Provost for Health Sciences; Elected member, National Academy of Medicine; Editor, Journal of Health Economics

Barbara Andraka-Christou, PhD, JD
University of Central Florida
Associate Professor

David Bradford, PhD
University of Georgia
Professor of Public Administration and Policy, Busbee Chair in Public Policy