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Comparative Pain Research and Education Center

CPREC Membership

Meet the experts leading our groundbreaking research projects and education development.

Leadership

B. Duncan X. Lascelles

Director
dxlascel@ncsu.edu

Margaret Gruen

Associate Director
megruen@ncsu.edu

Sarah Ann Craven

Director of Special Projects and Planning
slcraven@ncsu.edu

Additional Founding Faculty

Michael Nolan

Michael Nolan

Professor
mwnolan@ncsu.edu

Santosh Mishra I

Santosh Mishra

Associate Professor
skmishra@ncsu.edu

Kristen Messenger

Associate Professor, Virginia-Maryland CVM kmmessen@vt.edu

Joshua Pierce

Professor, Chemistry, College of Sciences, NC State University

jgpierce@ncsu.edu

Faculty

David Knazovicky

Assistant Professor of Small Animal Orthopedics, Department of Clinical Sceinces

Research focus on pain in dogs with osteoarthritis.

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Mark Papich

Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences

Research focus is to investigate medications, often including pain medications, used in animal care.

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Lauren Schnabel

Professor of Equine Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Clinical Sciences

Research involves treatment for alleviating orthopedic pain as well as novel ways to onbjectively evaluate orthopedic pain in horses.

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Lysa Posner

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Professor of Veterinary Anesthesiology, Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences

Research focus in developing and evaluating methods to assess, reduce, and prevent pain in fish species.

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Monique Pairis-Garcia

Professor of Global Production Animal Welfare, Department of Population Health and Pathobiology

Research includes identifying methods for pain management in livestock animals utilizing pharmacological interventions.

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Jessica Briley

Clinical Assistant Professor in Veterinary Anesthesiology

Interest in advancing specialist and DVM-level clinical education in interventional regional anesthesia and acute analgesia.

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Troy Ghashghaei

Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences

Research focus in processing of aversive stimuli including those related to pain in the mouse brain using sophisticated genetic and neurophysiological approaches.

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Lydia Love

Associate Clinical Professor in Veterinary Anesthesiology, Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences

 Focus on working to practice, promote, and teach clinical excellence in perioperative patient care.

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Masataka Enomoto

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences

Research focuses on orthopedic surgery, cartilage regeneration/restoration, and pain management in comparative models.

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Julie Balko

Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences

Veterinary anesthesiologist with roles in analgesic research (mainly non-domestic species) and pain education.

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Olivia Petritz

Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences

Research and continuing education interest on analgesics of zoological companion animals.

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Javier Benito

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences

Research focus on anesthesia and perioperative analgesia in companion animals, chronic pain in feline medicine, and clinical medicine and welfare in laboratory animals

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Natasha Olby

Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences

Research focus areas include treatment of spinal cord injury, understanding the genetic basis of hereditary neurodegenerative diseases and brain neoplasia, and therapy of canine brain tumors

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