Karen O. Anderson, PhD, Research Psychologist
Dr. Anderson is a clinical psychologist with a background in research health psychology. She has publications in the area of behavioral assessment and treatment of chronic pain. Before joining the Pain Research Group in 1996, she served as a faculty member at Wake Forest University Medical Center and the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Her research interests include pain management for minority cancer patients, symptom assessment and treatment for blood and marrow transplantation patients, and laboratory studies of pain and its modulation using behavioral and pharmacological interventions.
- Fellowship: Wake Forest University Medical Center
- Internship: West Virginia University Medical Center
- PhD, Clinical psychology, The University of Memphis
Selected References:
Anderson KO, Cleeland CS, Mendoza T, Valero V, DeLeon C, Washington P, Cardenas ML, Richman S, Russell C. African American and Hispanic patients with metastatic cancer and pain: Does gender make a difference? Abstract presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society, San Diego, CA, 1998.
Jackson EF, Cleeland CS, Anderson KO, Allen RR, Mendoza T, Leeds NE, Kumar AJ, Payne R. Pain and the brain: functional MRI studies of pain and its modulation by non-pharmacological interventions. Medical Physics 1998; 25:A130.
Anderson KO, Mendoza TR, Cleeland CS. Patient education for minority breast cancer patients with pain. Abstract presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society, New Orleans, LA, 1997.
E-mail address: koanderso@mdanderson.org