Today on The Fundamentals, our guest is Dr. Pooja Lagisetty, an assistant professor of internal medicine and a research scientist at the Center for Clinical Management and Research at the Ann Arbor VA. Her research focuses on addressing access barriers and developing multidisciplinary interventions to better treat chronic pain and addiction across general medical settings. Her research has been influential in understanding stigma and disparities for individuals with pain and addiction.

You can learn more about Dr. Lagisetty here, and you can follow the Dr. Lagisetty @PoojaLagisetty, the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation @UM_ihpi and the U-M Department of Internal Medicine @UMIntMed on Twitter.

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A transcript of this episode can be found here.

Find out more about the research stories mentioned at the top of the show at the links below:

How one state beat national surgery opioid trends

Prescribing guidelines accelerated Michigan’s progress over the rest of the nation, study shows

Zip code and hospital quality may both affect the risk of dying after surgery

People who lived in under-resourced neighborhoods and underwent operations at lower-quality hospitals were more likely to die within 30 days

Learn more about other exciting research happening at the University of Michigan, by checking out Health Lab, Michigan Medicine's daily online publication featuring news and stories about the future of healthcare.

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