Journal of Pain & Relief
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Todd Monroe

Department of Nursing, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Biography

Dr. Monroe earned a B.S.N. from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1998, where he graduated cum laude.  He earned his M.S.N. from the University of Alabama College of Nursing in 2002, where he received the Sigma Theta Tau Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Carter, Dr. Monroe earned his Ph.D. in Nursing in 2010 from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). While at UTHSC, Dr. Monroe received the prestigious Alma and Hal Regan Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for his dissertation work examining cancer pain in people with dementia at the end-of-life.

Publications

Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Describe Pain Pathways in the Oldest Old: A Case Study of a Healthy 97-year-old Female

The prevalence of painful medical conditions increases with age. Pain differences in older adulthood are of special concern because we do not know how brain changes in healthy aging may alter the sensory and affective response to pain. Over the last two decades, neuroimaging studies have described interconnected brain regions that mediate pain proc... Read More»

Todd Monroe, Andrew Dornan, Michael A. Carter and Ronald L. Cowan

Research Article: J Pain Relief 2012, 111

DOI: 10.4172/2167-0846.1000111

Abstract Peer-reviewed Full Article