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Vitaly J. Napadow, Ph.D.

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Biography
Cornell University, Ithaca, NYBS12/1995Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MAMS05/1998Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MAPhD05/2001Biomedical Engineering
New England School of Acupuncture, Newton, MAMAcup05/2002Acupuncture
1996 - 2001
Whitaker Foundation, Graduate Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering
2000
Finalist, Schnitzer Prize for the Visual Arts
2002 - 2003
MIT-China Fellowship to study Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing, People’s Republic of China
2007
Acupuncturist for American Pain Society awarded Clinical Centers of Excellence
2018
Excellence in Integrative Medicine Research Award
2019
Academy Distinguished Investigator Council

Overview
Vitaly Napadow is a Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Scott Schoen and Nancy Adams Discovery Center for Recovery from Chronic Pain at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and the Center for Integrative Pain Neuroimaging (CiPNI) at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. Somatosensory, cognitive, and affective factors all influence the malleable experience of chronic pain, and Dr. Napadow’s Lab has applied human functional and structural neuroimaging to localize and suggest mechanisms by which different brain circuitries modulate pain perception. Dr. Napadow’s neuroimaging research also aims to better understand how non-pharmacological therapies, from acupuncture and transcutaneous neuromodulation to cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness meditation training, ameliorate aversive perceptual states such as pain. Dr. Napadow has more than 200 publications in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, is past-President of the Society for Acupuncture Research, and serves on the board of the US Association for the Study of Pain (USASP) and numerous conference, journal, and NIH review panels. He was recently named to the Academy Distinguished Investigator Council by the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research and received the Excellence in Integrative Medicine Research Award by the European Society for Integrative Medicine.

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  1. U24AT012560 (NAPADOW, VITALY) May 19, 2023 - Apr 30, 2028
    NIH
    Topological Atlas and Repository for Acupoint research (TARA)
    Role: Principal Investigator
  2. R13AT011473 (HARRIS, RICHARD E) May 1, 2021 - Apr 30, 2022
    NIH
    2021 Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR) Conference titled, Pandemics, Pain & Public Health: Roles and Relevance of Traditional East Asian Medicine
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
  3. R13AT010320 (NAPADOW, VITALY) Jan 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2019
    NIH
    SAR 2019: Acupuncture Research, Health Care Policy and Community Health - Closing the Loop
    Role: Principal Investigator
  4. R21DK116029 (NAPADOW, VITALY) Aug 15, 2018 - Jul 31, 2021
    NIH
    Neuromodulation of the Brain-Gut Axis by Transcutaneous Vagal Nerve Stimulation in Functional Dyspepsia
    Role: Principal Investigator
  5. P01AT009965 (NAPADOW, VITALY ;ROSEN, BRUCE R) Aug 1, 2018 - Jul 31, 2024
    NIH
    Boosting mind-body mechanisms and outcomes for chronic pain
    Role: Principal Investigator

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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.