Lonnie Zeltzer, MD
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Psychiatry &
Biobehavioral Sciences
Director, Pediatric Pain Program UCLA School of Medicine
Dr. Zeltzer is a Professor
of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at
the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine.
She received her B.A. (Pre-medicine) at Douglass College-Rutgers University,
N.J., and M.D. at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She
completed a Pediatric Internship at UCLA, Residency at the University
of Arizona (Tucson), and Adolescent Medicine Fellowship at the Children's
Hospital of Los Angeles. She is Director of the UCLA Pediatric Pain Program
at the UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, Associate Director of the Patients
and Survivors Program of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control
Research, and Associate Director of the Sue Styles Program in Integrative
Oncology in the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is also
a member of the UCLA Norman Cousins Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) Program
Task Force. On a national level, she has been a member of the Human Development
Study Section at NIH, the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Pediatric
Research, and the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
(SDBP) Executive Council. She has also been a coordinator of the William
T Grant Foundation's Developmental Psychobiology of Stress Research Consortium
and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Children's Social Competence
and Health Outcomes Project of the Center for the Advancement of Health.
She has served as past-Secretary/Treasurer of SDBP and past-President
of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. She has been a recipient of a
William T Grant Foundation Faculty Scholar's Award and a Research Career
Development Award from the National Cancer Institute. She is one of the
twelve members of an NCI Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Expert panel and has been a member of several ad hoc study sections on
CAM research. She is also a member of the Psychosocial, Behavioral, and
Cancer Control Study Section of the American Cancer Society. She was a
recipient of the 2001 Arangula Award for outstanding pain research from
the Southern California Cancer Pain Initiative. She is a member of the
editorial boards of several scientific journals and is Associate Editor
of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology.
Her clinical work, teaching, and research are intertwined. Her clinical
program integrates complementary and traditional therapies for treatment
of chronic pain and she studies the development of chronic pain, mind-body-pain
connections, and the impact of complementary therapies on chronic pain.
She has completed studies of hypnotherapy, acupuncture, yoga, and meditation
and is part of an NIH-funded national research consortium studying the
late effects of childhood cancer. She is Principal Investigator of a $2.4
million NIH-funded study of the relationship between gender, puberty,
and pain. She has published over one hundred articles, reviews, and chapters
related to pediatric pain, CAM, and childhood cancer.
Brenda Bursch, Ph.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral
Sciences
Associate Director, Pediatric Pain Program UCLA School of Medicine
Dr. Bursch is an Asistant Professor
of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Pediatrics at the University
of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine. She received her
doctoral degree from The Claremont Graduate School in 1990. She is trained
in both social and clinical psychology with a specialty in medical psychology.
Additionally, she was trained as an emergency medic while in college and
taught emergency medicine while in graduate school. She is Associate Director
of the UCLA Pediatric Pain Program at the UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital,
Associate Director of Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation Liaison and Director
of Pain Services at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute & Hospital,
and Associate Director of the UCLA Research Group on the Impact of Trauma,
Medical Life-Threat and Loss on Children, Adolescents, Adults, and Families.
On a national level, she has served as the Chair of an American Pain Society
task force charged to develop a position paper on chronic pain in children
(Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents SIG: Policy Statement on Pediatric
Chronic Pain); and she has been a reviewer for JAMA, Journal of Pediatric
Psychology, Journal of Pediatrics, and Child Maltreatment. Dr. Bursch's
specific area of interest is the diagnosis and treatment of medically
complicated children and adolescents. She has been working with the UCLA
Pediatric Pain Service since 1994 with an emphasis on severe chronic pain
and pain associated disability.
Dr. Bursch has presented lectures
on this topic at a wide range of professional conferences within the United
States and abroad. She is currently involved in the following research
projects: "Anxiety, Pain and Self-Efficacy in Children," "Health
Profiles in Adolescent Childhood Survivors," and "The Role of
Puberty and Gender Differences in Pain Responsivity." She has published
numerous scientific articles and book chapters on chronic pain in children
and adolescents.
Cynthia D. Myers, Ph.D.
Research Psychologist
Cynthia D. Myers is an Assistant
Research faculty member in the UCLA Pediatric Pain Program in the Department
of Pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She
completed her psychology doctorate at the Department of Clinical and Health
Psychology at the University of Florida in 1999. Her dissertation research
was on gender-related factors in pain responding. She completed a two-year
postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Florida College of Dentistry
with her research and clinical focus on psychosocial factors in chronic
facial pain. She is also a licensed massage therapist, having completed
massage certification training in 1982 at the Boulder School of Massage
Therapy in Boulder, Colorado, and certification from the National Certification
Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork in 1995. Her research and clinical
interests include psychosocial factors in chronic pain, complementary
and alternative medicine, and integrative mind-body medicine. She is a
member of the American Psychological Association, the American Pain Society,
the International Association for the Study of Pain, and the American
Massage Therapy Association.
Su C. Kim, M.A.
Project Coordinator
Su C. Kim is project coordinator of a major NIH-funded study of the relationship between gender, puberty, and pain responsivity among healthy children and adolescents which is being conducted through the UCLA Pediatric Pain Program. She joined the Pediatric Pain Program in 2001 after completing her Master of Arts in Psychological Research at San Francisco State University. She is particularly interested in the cultural considerations in pain research.
M.H.Waterhouse, M.A. L.Ac.
Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine.
Clinical Instructor, Department of Pediatrics
Clinical Faculty, Pediatric Pain Program
Faculty, Physiatry Pain Fellowship Program, UCLA and VA Hospital
Michael Waterhouse originally trained in England and Nanjing in the Peoples Republic of China. He has been a Licensed Acupuncturist in the State of California since 1978. Formerly an Academic Dean of the California Acupuncture College he was an Examiner for both the California state and National board examinations. He has worked extensively in integrated medical settings and with the U.C.L.A. Pediatric Pain Clinic since 1996. Acupuncture involves the insertion of extremely fine needles into specific points on the body.
Brad Zebrack is a recipient
of a National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award (NRSA)
and post-doctoral research fellow in the UCLA School of Medicine, Department
of Pediatrics. He completed his doctorate in Social Work and Sociology
at the University of Michigan in 1999. In his work, Dr. Zebrack focuses
on the impact of cancer on long-term survivors and their families, and
he has published several articles on cancer survivorship and quality of
life among survivors of childhood cancer. Prior to becoming a researcher,
Dr. Zebrack was a pediatric oncology social worker at Children's Hospital
in Oakland, California, and a health educator for the American Cancer
Society.
A 17-year survivor of Hodgkin's lymphoma, Dr. Zebrack currently serves
on the board of directors as Vice President for the Candlelighters Childhood
Cancer Foundation. Dr. Zebrack maintains memberships in the Association
of Oncology Social Work, the Society for Social Work and Research, the
American Public Health Association, and the International Society for
Quality of Life Research. In 1989, Dr. Zebrack and his wife Joanne completed
a one-year, 11,000-mile bicycle tour around the perimeter of the United
States to promote cancer survivorship.
Jacqueline Casillas, M.D. is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her B.A. at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and M.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is receiving her Masters of Science in Health Services from the UCLA School of Public Health. She completed her Pediatric Internship and Residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA. She completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the UCLA School of Public Health and RAND funded through the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality. Her health services research interests are in the area of access to care, quality of life and quality of care for long-term survivors of childhood cancer. Some of her current projects include: assessing access to care for adult survivors of childhood cancer in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS); assessment of health status, medical care, and preventive health practices of Latino adult survivors of childhood cancer; and explaining psychosocial and quality of life outcomes in Latino long-term survivors of childhood cancer. Her clinical work complements her research interests. She has a late effects clinic at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA for pediatric cancer survivors for children, adolescents, and young adults. She is a member of the Children's Oncology Group and the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.