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Steven Harte

Associate Professor

Anesthesiology

Orcid identifier0000-0002-2929-8694
  • Associate Professor
    Anesthesiology
  • Associate Professor
    MM Internal Medicine - Rheumatology

BIO

Dr. Harte is a psychobiologist and an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine with 25 years of experience studying and teaching pain science. His NIH-funded research program leverages preclinical models, psychophysics, inflammatory biomarkers, patient-reported outcomes measures, wearables, and functional brain imaging to investigate mechanisms of chronic pain and analgesic treatments. Specific areas of interest include multisensory neural integration, cannabinoids, environmental influences on pain, pain affect, mechanisms of pain modulation, and analgesic drug development. He is a member of several national pain research collaborations, including the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain (MAPP) Research Network, the Symptoms of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction Research Network (LURN), the HEAL BACPAC and BEST initiatives, and the recently completed AURORA Study on trauma where he leads the development and implementation of multi-site quantitative sensory testing (QST). Dr. Harte is a faculty affiliate of the U-M Neuroscience Graduate Program, Michigan Neuroscience Institute, and Sensory Science Initiative. He is Director of the Postdoctoral T32 in Translational Science at the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) and Co-Director/Co-PI of the HEAL National K12 Clinical Pain Career Development Program. Lastly, he is engaged in the development of novel medical and research devices and e-Health delivery applications, and is Co-Founder/Chief Scientific Officer of Arbor Medical Innovations, LLC. Dr. Harte holds several patents for pain measurement and wearable technology resulting from this work.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN APPOINTMENTS

  • Associate Professor
    Anesthesiology
  • Associate Professor
    MM Internal Medicine - Rheumatology

DEGREES

  • PHD, Psychology - Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
    Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States1 Sep 2002 - 1 Oct 2005
  • MA, Psychology - Biopsychology
    Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States1 Sep 1998 - 1 Aug 2002

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    University of Michigan Medical School, Internal Medicine, Ann Arbor, United States
    Chronic Pain, Neuroimaging, PsychophysicsPostdoctoral ResearchSupervised by Gracely, Morrow, Clauw
  • Postdoctoral Translational Science Scholar
    University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, United States
    Translational ResearchPostdoctoral FellowshipSupervised by Clauw DJC

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