Sean Mackey
Redlich Professor at Stanford University
Physician-scientist focused on pain, neuroscience, outcomes and policy research
RESEARCH
Dr. Mackey is Director of the Stanford Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab (SNAPL).
PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Mackey is author of over 200 journal articles, book chapters, abstracts, and popular press pieces.
Blog
Flawed proposed Oregon opioid policy opposes CDC guideline, creates risks
The misapplication of the CDC guideline on opioid prescribing for chronic pain has caused confusion, suffering, and harm to patients. Fundamentally, policies and practices that support tapering to specified doses or involuntary opioid tapering runs counter to guidance from the CDC, FDA, the U.S. Surgeon General, the American Medical Association, and the American Academy of…
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Response to Draft Report on Pain Management Best Practices
The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) of 2016 led to the creation of the Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force (Task Force), whose mission is to determine whether gaps in or inconsistencies between best practices for acute and chronic pain management exist and to propose updates and recommendations to those best practices. The…
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National Doctors’ Day 2019
Today is a day to honor our doctors for their dedication and hard work in helping to cure disease and improve the health and well-being of our citizens. National Doctors’ Day marks the date that Crawford W. Long, MD administered the first ether anesthetic on March 30, 1842 to allow surgical removal of a neck…
Pain and Addiction Leaders Raise Alarm on Oregon Force Tapering Opioid Proposal
With the incredible dedication and efforts of multiple clinicians and patients advocated for those in pain, we a submitted a letter to Oregon HERC expressing deep concerns about Oregon’s proposal to force a vulnerable group of its citizens to taper off of opioids. Special thanks go out to Andrea Anderson, Dr. Stefan Kertesz, Kate Nicholson,…
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