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Monika Haack, Ph.D.

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University of Trier, Tier, GermanyM.A.05/1995Biological Psychology
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, GermanyPh.D.12/2001Sleep, Immunology, Psychiatry
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USAPostdoc11/2004Sleep, Immunology, Pain
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2002
German Research Foundation Fellowship
2002
Travel Award
2004
Trainee Research Merit Award
2004
Trainee Travel Award
2010
Participant & Clinical Interactions Resources (PCIR) Junior Investigator Laboratory Support
2011
Harvard Medical School Excellence in Tutoring Award
2015
SRS Biomarker Trainee Travel Award
2017
SRS Participation Award ‘Precision Sleep Medicine'

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RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research goals are directed at discovering the mechanisms involved in the relationship between sleep deficiency and increased disease risk, in particular chronic pain, with a focus on central pain processing and pro-inflammatory and inflammatory resolution pathways as promising mechanistic candidates. Over the years, I have developed an interdisciplinary research program linking sleep physiology, inflammatory and endocrine networks, emotional well-being, with pain and pain processing. My group has developed and implemented complex and lengthy experimental models of sleep deficiency that mimic sleep patterns that are highly common in society, such as the repeated exposure to restricting sleep on weekdays and catching-up on sleep over the weekend, or patterns of recurrent sleep disturbances. We are further investigating the sleep-pain relationships using real-life models, such as insomnia disorder. Currently, we are studying the role of sleep disturbances in Long COVID, for which various types of pain and sleep disturbances are two of the most common symptoms. Based on these laboratory and non-laboratory models, findings repeatedly suggested sex differences in the inflammatory and pain processing responses to sleep disturbances, which we hope will help to improve our understanding of the over-representation of females in the many chronic pain conditions associated with sleep disturbances.

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP
1999 – present German Sleep Society (DGSM)
2003 – present Sleep Research Society (SRS)
2012 – 2018 American Pain Society (APS)
2015 – present Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (PNIRS)
2019 – present International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
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Subjective and biological response reactivity to a pain challenge in the course of repeated patterns of sleep restriction and recovery – a pilot study
Summer, 06/17/13 - 08/16/13
Actigraphy-Based Sleep Characteristics as Predictors of Inflammatory, Autonomic, and Stress Systems Activation in Individuals Suffering From Primary Insomnia
Summer, 06/01/12 - 09/01/12

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  1. R21 NS128815-01 (HAACK, MONIKA) Jul 1, 2022 - Jun 30, 2024
    NIH/NINDS
    Pain in PASC – The Role of Sleep Disturbances
    Role Description: The goal of this proposal is to characterize pain and somatosensory deficits in patients with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), or ‘long COVID’. Hypothesis is that sleep disturbance is a critical factor in the development and non-resolution of pain in PASC.
  2. R01HL136310 (HAACK, MONIKA) Apr 15, 2018 - Feb 28, 2024
    NIH
    Patterns of Sleep Restriction and Recovery: The Inflammatory Resolution Pathways
    Role Description: The goal of this proposal is to characterize pain and somatosensory deficits in patients with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), or ‘long COVID’. Hypothesis is that sleep disturbance is a critical factor in the development and non-resolution of pain in PASC.
  3. R01NS091177 (HAACK, MONIKA) Apr 1, 2015 - Mar 31, 2020
    NIH
    Pain Sensitization and Habituation in a Model of Experimentally-Induced Insomnia Symptoms
    Role: Principal Investigator
  4. R01HL105544 (HAACK, MONIKA) Jun 7, 2011 - Mar 31, 2016
    NIH
    Repeating patterns of sleep restriction and recovery - do we get used to it?
    Role: Principal Investigator
  5. M01RR001032 (SUKHATME, VIKAS P) Dec 1, 1977 - Mar 31, 2010
    NIH
    General Clinical Research Center
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator

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