Jamie Rhudy, PhD

Phone: (405) 271-8001 ext. 18001

Email: Jamie-Rhudy@ouhsc.edu

Dr. Jamie L. Rhudy is a George Kaiser Family Foundation Endowed Chair, Site Director of the TSET Health Promotion Research Center in Tulsa, and Professor in the Department of Health Promotions Sciences within the Hudson College of Public Health at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC).  

Dr. Rhudy completed his PhD in clinical psychology in 2002 at Texas A&M University and went on to complete post-doctoral training at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Jackson, MS.  Dr. Rhudy has over 25 years of research experience in affective neuroscience, with a specific focus on the interface of emotion and pain processing.  His laboratory uses a variety of electrophysiological assessment techniques (e.g., electromyography, electroencephalography, electrocardiography, skin conductance, respiration) to assess pain, nociceptive responding, and other related defensive reactions (e.g., startle response). The overarching goals of this work is to identify mechanisms that contribute to and/or maintain chronic pain conditions, to develop non-invasive methods for assessing individuals at risk for developing chronic pain, and to improve the methods for studying nociceptive processing.  His recent research has focused on identifying the mechanisms contributing to Native American pain inequities, with a specific focus on social, psychological, and physiological factors.  

Dr. Rhudy has more than 120 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, more than 150 published abstracts, and more than 230 scientific presentations related to pain, emotion, health, and psychophysiology.  His h-index according to Google Scholar is 42. He has taught statistics at the graduate and undergraduate level and has received awards for his teaching.  Dr. Rhudy serves as Associate Editor for the journal PAIN and is on the editorial boards of Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Health Psychology, Frontiers in Pain Research and the Journal of Pain.

Education:

Degree-Granting Institutions
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Clinical Psychology. 2002

Postgraduate Training
Psychology Internship, 2002, The University of Mississippi Medical Center and the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Jackson, MS.

Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2003, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS.

Select Publications:

1. Huber F.A, Toledo, T. A., Newsom, G., & Rhudy, J. L. (in press).  The relationship between sleep quality and emotional modulation of spinal, supraspinal, and perceptual measures of pain.  Biological Psychology.  PMID: 35569574 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108352
2. 2022
3. Kell, P. A., Huber, F. A., Street, E. N., Shadlow, J. O., & Rhudy, J. L. (2022).  Sleep problems mediate the relationship between psychosocial stress and pain facilitation in Native Americans:  A structural equation modeling analysis from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk.  Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 56(11):1116-1130.  PMID: 35775809 DOI: 10.1093/abm/kaac034
4. Pinto, A. M., Geenen, R., Wager, T, Lumley, M. A., Hauser, W., Kosak, E., Ablin, J. N., Amris, K., Branco, J., Buskila, D., Castelhano, J., Castelo-Branco, M., Crofford, L. J., Fitzcharles, M. A., Lopez-Sola, M., Luis, M., Marques, T. R., Mease, P., Palavra, F., Rhudy, J. L., Uddin, L. Q., Castilho, P., Jacobs, J. W. G., da Silva, J. A. P.  (2022).  Emotion regulation and the salience network: A hypothetical integrative model of fibromyalgia.  Nature Reviews Rheumatology.
5. Shadlow, J. O, Kell, P. A., Toledo, T. A., Huber, F. A., Kuhn, B. L., Lannon, E. W., Hellman, N., Sturycz, C. A., Ross, E. N., & Rhudy, J. L.  (2022). Sleep buffers the effect of discrimination on allostatic load in Native Americans:  A moderated mediation analysis from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk.  Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 9, 1632-1647.  DOI: 10.1007/s40615-021-01103-7 PMID: 34319571
6. Güereca, Y. M., Kell, P. A.., Kuhn, B. L., Hellman, N., Sturycz, C. A., Toledo, T. A., Huber, F. A., Demuth, M., Lannon, E. W., Palit, S., Shadlow, J. O., & Rhudy, J. L. (2022).  The relationship between experienced discrimination and pronociceptive processes in Native Americans:  Results from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk.  Journal of Pain, 23(6), 1006-1024. PMID: 35021117
7. Dhondt, E., Van Oosterwijck, S., Van Branteghem, T., Rhudy, J. L., Danneels, L., & Van Oosterwijck, J.  (2022).  Modulation of the nociceptive flexion reflex by conservative therapy in patients and healthy people:  A systematic review and meta-analysis.  PAIN, 163(8):1446-1463.  PMID: 34813517
8. Lannon, E. W., Huber, F., Kuhn, B. L., Hellman, N., Palit, S., Sturycz, C. A., Güereca, Y. M., Toledo, T. A., Payne, M. F., Demuth, M. J., Shadlow, J. O., & Rhudy, J. L. (2022). Does a Trait-Activation Model of Pain Catastrophizing Contribute to Pain Risk in Native Americans?:  Results from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk (OK-SNAP).  Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 22(3), 587-596. PMID: 35289511
9. Rhudy, J. L., Huber, F., Toledo, T.A., Kell, P.A., Street, E., & Shadlow, J. O. (2022).  Psychosocial and cardiometabolic predictors of chronic pain onset in Native Americans:  Serial mediation analyses of 2-year prospective data from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk.  PAIN, 163, 3654-e674.  PMID: 34433767.  
10. Huber F. A., Kell, P. A.., Kuhn, B. L., Lannon, E. W., Palit, S., Payne, M. F., Hellman, N., Sturycz, C. A., Guereca, Y. M., Toledo, T. A., Demuth, M. J., Hahn, B. J., Shadlow, J. L., & Rhudy, J. L. (2022).  The association between adverse life events, psychological stress, and pain-promoting affect and cognitions in Native Americans:  Results from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk.  Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 9, 215-226.  DOI: 10.1007/s40615-020-00945-x  PMID: 33428157
11. Ehrhardt, M. D., Gray, K.N., Kuhn, B. L., Lannon, E. W., Palit, S., Sturycz, C. A., Güereca, Y. M., Payne, M. F., Hellman, N., Toledo, T. A., Hahn, B. J., Rhudy, J. L. & Shadlow, J. O. (2022). A qualitative analysis of pain meaning: Results from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk (OK-SNAP). Ethnicity & Health, 27(3) ,721-732.  DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2020.1760215  PMID: 32378419.
12. Street, E.N., Toledo, T. A., Huber, F. A., Kell, P.A., Hellman, N., Shadlow, J. O., & Rhudy, J. L. (2022).  The role of self-evaluated pain sensitivity as a mediator of objectively measured pain tolerance in Native Americans: Findings from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk (OK-SNAP).  Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 45, 272–284.  PMID: 34545536