Akiko Okifuji, PhD

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Languages Spoken: English, Japanese

Akiko Okifuji, PhD is Professor of Anesthesiology, Division of Pain Medicine, at the University of Utah. She is a licensed clinical psychologist who is specialized in pain management. She is also a pain researcher. She has been a principal investigator and co-investigator of various federal and locally funded projects in pain medicine.

Her current research interests include rehabilitative approaches to fibromyalgia, weight management in chronic pain, women’s health and chronic pain, the cost-effectiveness of multidisciplinary pain care approaches, psychosocial and psychophysiology of opioid use/taper, and cognitive-behavioral aspects of chronic pain.

She is also a member of the treatment team at the University of Utah Pain Management Center, where she provides behavioral medicine services to people with chronic pain.

Specialties

Chronic Pain
Adult Behavioral Health
Psychology, Clinical

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Anesthesiology - Professor

She is also a member of the treatment team at the University of Utah Pain Management Center, where she provides behavioral medicine services to people with chronic pain.

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Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments

Anesthesiology - Professor

Research Interests

Fibromyalgia
Chronic pain management
Weight Management in Chronic Pain
Behavioral Medicine

Education History

Fellowship	University of Pittsburgh Psychology Fellow, 1996
Doctoral Training	State University of New York at Binghamton Psychology Ph.D., 1995
Doctoral Training	State University of New York at Binghamton Clinical Psychology Ph.D., 1995
Internship	University of Pittsburgh Psychiatry Intern, 1993
Graduate Training	State University of New York at Binghamton Psychology M.A., 1991
Undergraduate	State University of New York at Stony Brook B.A., 1988

Selected Publications - Journal Articles

Journal Article

Cochran G, Shen J, Cox N, Field C, Carlston K, Sengpraseut B, White A, Okifuji A, Jackman C, Haaland B, Ragsdale R, Gordon AJ, Tarter R (2022). Addressing opioid medication misuse at point of service in community pharmacy: A study protocol for an interdisciplinary behavioral health trial. Contemp Clin Trials, 116, 106759.
Charron E, Okifuji A, Bryan MA, Reese S, Brown JL, Ferguson A, Ghitza UE, Winhusen T, Cochran G (2022). Pain Severity and Interference and Substance Use Among Community Pharmacy Patients Prescribed Opioids: A Secondary Analysis of the PHARMSCREEN Study. J Pain.
Okifuji A, Mitsunaga R, Kida Y, Donaldson GW (2021). The visual time analog scale: simple, novel measurement approach to assess pain in patients with chronic pain. Pain Manag, 11(4), 357-368.
Brogan SE, Sindt JE, Jackman CM, White J, Wilding V, Okifuji A (2019). Prospective Association of Serum Opioid Levels and Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Cancer Pain Treated With Intrathecal Opioid Therapy. Anesth Analg, 130(4), 1035-1044.
Lamers OA, Kuck K, Okifuji A, Stuart AR, Johnson KB, Rijsdijk M (2019). Opioid-related beliefs and prescription modalities for postoperative pain of Dutch and American physicians. Pain Manag, 9(3), 239-250.
Okifuji A, Neikrug A (2019). Update and future perspective of behavioral medicine in the treatment for chronic pain. Pain Manag, 9(2), 161-173.
Iacob E, Hagn EE, Sindt J, Brogan S, Tadler SC, Kennington KS, Hare BD, Bokat CE, Donaldson GW, Okifuji A, Junkins SR (2017). Tertiary Care Clinical Experience with Intravenous Lidocaine Infusions for the Treatment of Chronic Pain. Pain Med, 19(6), 1245-1253.
Neikrug AB, Donaldson G, Iacob E, Williams SL, Hamilton CA, Okifuji A (2017). Activity rhythms and clinical correlates in fibromyalgia. Pain, 158(8), 1417-1429.
Okifuji A, Donaldson GW (2014). Use of ecological momentary assessment to monitor fibromyalgia. Pain Manag, 1(3), 195-7.

Other

White A, Lundahl B, Bryan MA, Okifuji A, Smid M, Gordon AJ, Carlston K, Silipigni J, Abdullah W, Krans EE, Kenney A, Cochran G (2021). Pregnancy and the Opioid Crisis: Heightened Effects of COVID-19. J Addict Med (16(1), pp. e2-e4). United States.
Umeda M, Okifuji A (2020). Comparable conditioned pain modulation and augmented blood pressure responses to cold pressor test among resistance exercisers compared to healthy controls. Biol Psychol (153, p. 107889). Netherlands.