Hello and welcome back to ACRAC. I'm Jed Volpah and I am thrilled to have with me today,

one of my colleagues and an international expert on pain, Dr. Stephen Cohen. Dr. Cohen

is the chief of pain medicine here at Johns Hopkins and a professor of anesthesiology here at Johns

Hopkins and at the University of Health Sciences. He is incredibly well published and respected

throughout the world for his work on chronic pain and we are I think really lucky to have him

here to talk about it today and what we're going to do is talk about just a general kind of overview

of pain, what it is, what the different aspects of it are and what kind of things are being done to

try to address it and then we're our hope if we can convince him is to get Dr. Cohen to come back

on subsequent days for subsequent episodes to talk about some specifics within that greater realm

of pain. So Dr. Cohen, welcome to the show. That's the that's the best introduction I could

could have hoped for, Jed, thanks. Well, it's absolutely a pleasure to have you here. So Steve,

actually before we jump into pain, let me just ask you to say a few words about yourself,

you know, kind of what you do, I kind of described it, but just give people a little bit of an idea

of what your practice looks like, what your research focuses on and then how you got where you are now.

Sure, Jed. So I'm the division chief of pain medicine at Johns Hopkins. I have

joint faculty appointment at Walter Reed and the uniform services University of the Health Sciences.

So I retired as a as a carnal in the Army Reserve and I have a son at the the military academy.

I spend about 50% of my time doing clinical work and about 50% of my time doing research.

I have a whole bunch of NIH and Department of Defense grants is the principal investigator.

The biggest areas of my research are spinal pain, specifically facet joint denervation,

epidural steroid injections, conservative measures, and post-traumatic pain.

Great. And Steve, you know, you have obviously written some of the the national and even international

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