News and Events

We are pleased to announce a request for proposals to the Pilot and Feasibility Award program of the UW CLEAR Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders.  Applications are due by Monday, March 10th, 2025, by 5pm Pacific Time. Please go to the following link for additional...

Good afternoon, The CLEAR Center’s next talk in the Visiting Professor series is soon approaching! On Monday, February 24th at 12:00pm PST, Drs. Andrea Cook and Lynn DeBar will be presenting their talk, “A Policy Relevant Pragmatic Trial on Acupuncture Effectiveness...

We would like to congratulate Dr. Michele Curatolo for being featured in a New York Times article titled "Chronic Pain Is a Hidden Epidemic. It’s Time for a Revolution."! Please see the link below for the full article:...

Congratulations to Dr. Jarvik on receiving the Outstanding Researcher award at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in November 2024.

Drs. Pradeep Suri and Janna Friedly (Co-Principal Investigators) were awarded $6.4 million from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) for a 5-year, multi-site randomized clinical trial entitled “A Superiority Trial of...

Congratulations to Dr. Patti Curl and co-authors Drs. Bresnahan, Cross, Jacob and Jarvik on receiving the JACR "Best of 2024" award for their article "Cost-Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence-Based Opportunistic Compression Fracture Screening of Existing...

We are pleased to welcome Rachel Geyer to The Clear Center as Interim Executive Administrative Director. Rachel Geyer is a research scientist in the Department of Family Medicine. She has extensive experience coordinating and managing research projects at the...

Drs. Pradeep Suri and Patrick Heagerty, working together with a research group based primarily at King's College London, were awarded the 2024 Outstanding Paper Award from the The Spine Journal and the North American Spine Society for the manuscript "The association...

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Tarczy-Hornoch to The Clear Center as Associate Director of the Methodology Core. Dr Tarczy-Hornoch is Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education. He is also Chief Data Officer, UW Medicine...