Register for the CLEAR Center Visiting Professor Session by speaker, Dr. Jeffrey Lotz, PhD, from the University of California San Francisco, taking place on Monday, May 8th, 2023, 2:00 – 3:00 PM PT. Dr. Lotz will be giving his talk, “A New Integrated Model to Phenotype Low Back Pain The Biopsychosocial Model Meets Big Data & Goals of the NIH Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC) Research Program.”
Dr. Jeffrey Lotz, Ph.D. is the David S. Bradford M.D. Endowed Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery and Vice Chair of Orthopaedic Research at UCSF. He has led the Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering Laboratory at UCSF since 1992, and is the principal investigator of one of the three Mechanistic Research Centers funded through the NIH Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC) Research Program (under NIH HEAL). BACPAC is a translational, patient-centered effort to address the need for effective and personalized therapies for chronic low back pain. Dr. Lotz is also director of three other research centers, including the NIDCR-funded Center for Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Tissue and Organ Regeneration (C-DOCTOR); the NIH-funded Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology in Medicine (CCMBM); and the NSF-funded Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (CDMI). Dr. Lotz has expertise in spine biomechanics, intervertebral disc biology, and tissue engineering. His laboratory work focuses on identifying mechanisms of disc degeneration, developing novel diagnostics and therapies for low back pain, and the biomechanics of spinal instrumentation. Dr. Lotz earned a doctorate degree in Medical Engineering from the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, a Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering Design from Stanford University, and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley.
This session will be recorded and made available on the CLEAR Center website.
Date: Monday, May 8, 2023
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm Pacific / 5:00-6:00 pm Eastern
Title: “A New Integrated Model to Phenotype Low Back Pain The Biopsychosocial Model Meets Big Data & Goals of the NIH Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC) Research Program”
Presenter: Dr. Jeffrey Lotz, Ph.D. – University of California San Francisco