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Updates from the CLEAR CenterCongratulations to Dr. Michele Curatolo!
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:...
Congragulations to Dr. Jeffrey Jarvik!
Congratulations to Dr. Jarvik on receiving the Outstanding Researcher award at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in November 2024.
Congratulations to Drs. Pradeep Suri and Janna Friedly for receiving $6.4 Million NIH Grant!
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 for receiving the JACR “Best of 2024” Award!
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...
Congratulations to Dr. Chris Lewis for being awarded the CLEAR Center Pilot and Feasibility Award!
The awarded project is titled "The Utilization of the Non-Surgical Spine Care Companion (NSSCC) for Patients with Acute Low Back Pain: A Pilot Study of Patient and Provider Usability." The NSSCC is a 10-week education program developed at UW that guides patients along...
Welcome Rachel Geyer
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...
Congratulations to Dr. Suri and Dr. Heagerty for receiving the 2024 Outstanding Paper Award from The Spine Journal and North American Spine Society!
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...
Welcome Dr. Peter Tarczy-Hornoch
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...
Congratulations to our CLEAR Center faculty for their manuscript!
Congratulations to our numerous CLEAR Center faculty and affiliates to their contributions to a manuscript indexed on the pre-print server medRxiv. The paper is titled, "Mortality with concurrent treatment with gabapentin and opioids among people with spine diagnoses...
Congratulations to Dr. Heagerty for his recent publication!
Congratulations to Patrick Heagerty, PhD, for his recent publication, "Planning stepped wedge cluster randomized trials to detect treatment effect heterogeneity Statistics in Medicine". The article can be accessed using the link. Dr. Heagerty is the CLEAR Center...