Barbara St. Marie is an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa College of Nursing; a certified Adult, Gerontology, Primary Care Nurse Practitioner; and is Pain Management Certified through ANCC. Dr. St. Marie is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a Fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She completed a PhD in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 2012, and Postdoctoral studies in Pain and Associated Symptoms (NINR/NIH, T32 NR011147), at the College of Nursing, University of Iowa between 2012-2014. As Principal Investigator, her research focuses on patients with pain receiving opioids, decision making for prescribing healthcare providers, and in looking at alternative means of managing pain and risk for opioid use disorder. 

Dr. St. Marie has been a PI on a grant funded by the National Institutes of Health -- National Institute on Drug Abuse entitled, Decision Support for Responsible Pain Management, in which she developed and tested an innovative decision support tool to assist healthcare providers in diagnosing and treating patients with headaches and facial pain, while stratifying risk for depression and opioid use disorder. She completed pilot work on the use of TENS for people with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) receiving buprenorphine for OUD treatment measuring craving, withdrawal, pain, and pain interference. Dr. St. Marie’s current project, through the Iowa Injury Prevention Center is looking at Support for Recovery in rural Iowa emergency departments, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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