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ReACH Director, Dr. Barbara J. Turner featured on Texas Public Radio's Texas Standard

On Friday, March 31st, Dr. Barbara J. Turner, the Director of the Center for Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH) will be featured on the Texas Public Radio show Texas Standard to discuss a recently published study that looks at how much the Hispanic community knows about chronic pain. Dr. Turner and her team conducted a population-based survey representing 8.8 million Hispanic residents of five Southwestern states who did not have chronic pain. The data from this study reveal serious gaps in knowledge about chronic pain including misunderstanding about relying on narcotics to treat the disease. This is the first study to reveal poor knowledge about chronic pain in a large population of Americans and reinforces the urgency of launching a broad-based educational campaign about chronic pain and its care.

ReACH Scholars

Christopher R. Frei, PharmD, MSc, BCPS, FCCP

Contact:

Christopher R. Frei, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FCCP
Pharmacotherapy Education and Research Center
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine

Program Director
Translational Sciences PhD Program
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
UT Health San Antonio

Assistant Professor and Division Head of Pharmacotherapy
The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy

UT Health San Antonio
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
MSC: 6220
San Antonio, TX 78229-3400
Phone: (210) 567-8355
Fax: (210) 567-3719
email: freic@uthscsa.edu

Christopher R. Frei, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FCCP is an Assistant Professor and Division Head of the Pharmacotherapy Division in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin and a Director of the Pharmacotherapy Education and Research Center (PERC) in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio. Dr. Frei has been a principal investigator/co-investigator for 16 studies supported by NIH, professional societies, and the pharmaceutical industry. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers.

Research Interests:

Emerging antibiotic resistance among Gram-positive bacteria including Staphylococcus aureus. Comparative-effectiveness, patient centered outcomes research, translational science, pharmacoepidemiology, outcomes research.