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Eva Widerstrom-Noga, D.D.S., Ph.D., is a Professor of Neurological Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine. She serves as the principal investigator of the Clinical Pain Research Laboratory at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. Her research focuses on persistent neuropathic pain post-neurotrauma, particularly spinal cord injury (SCI), integrating pain physiology, psychology, and clinical management. She has pioneered innovative methods like magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study brain mechanisms and adapted outcome measures for SCI pain populations.
Dr. Widerstrom-Noga chairs national/international efforts to standardize pain classification and clinical guidelines. She emphasizes stakeholder perspectives (patients, providers) in developing interventions, including non-pharmacological treatments and pain education programs. Her work spans translational research in cellular transplantation (e.g., Schwann cells), deep brain stimulation (DBS) for movement disorders, and neuroimaging studies linking brain structure/function to pain severity.
Her funding history includes federal and foundation grants as PI/collaborator, with notable projects like ENIGMA-Chronic Pain and the CanPain SCI guidelines. She has led over 100 peer-reviewed publications, consistently addressing pain phenotypes, biomarkers, and interdisciplinary solutions. Key contributions include developing the International SCI Pain Data Sets and advancing low-frequency DBS for freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease.
