Akiko Okifuji, PhD

Languages spoken: English, Japanese
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  • 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.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Anesthesiology - Primary

  • 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.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Anesthesiology -Primary

    Research interests

    Education history

    Fellowship Psychology - University of Pittsburgh Fellow
    Psychology - State University of New York at Binghamton Ph.D.
    Internship Psychiatry - University of Pittsburgh Intern
    Clinical Psychology - State University of New York at Binghamton Ph.D.
    Graduate Training Psychology - State University of New York at Binghamton M.A.
    State University of New York at Stony Brook B.A.