HomeCollegesCollegesCollege of Natural and Health SciencesFaculty And StaffProfilesDr. Kelly L Huffman
Assistant Professor

PhD Counseling Psychology; Minor Research Methods, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
MS Counseling, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
BS Psychology, Bowling Green State University, USA

Bio

Dr. Huffman is a Licensed Psychologist in the USA.  Previously, she was employed at the Cleveland Clinic as a licensed psychologist in the Section of Pain Medicine and an Assistant Professor in Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. In this position, Dr. Huffman gained extensive clinical experience in the assessment and treatment of patients with chronic pain syndromes and complex comorbidities such as affective disorders, trauma, somatoform disorders, and substance use disorders. Dr. Huffman also holds a generalist background in outpatient psychotherapy, health psychology, including expertise in sleep, bariatrics, cancer.  In addition to clinical intervention, she is passionate about education and research.  As such, Dr. Huffman served as training director for the pain psychology fellowship, provided hospital wide training to staff and medical students training in relationship centered communication skills and oversaw her centers research program.   

 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

  • Psychologist, Director of Training, Cleveland Clinic, Section of Pain Medicine

  • Postdoctoral fellow, Chronic Pain Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Dept of Pain Medicine

  • Adjunct Graduate Faculty, Cleveland State University

 
Office

Abu Dhabi - Khalifa City, FF2-1-036

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Teaching Areas

Clinical health psychology, pain psychology, clinical intervention and assessment, trauma, statistics and research methods, patient-provider relationship, counseling, relationship based communication.

Research and Professional Activities

MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

American Psychological Association
Division 17, Counseling Psychology
Division 38, Health Psychology
Division 52, International Psychology
American Pain Society
International Association for the Study of Pain
National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology
Ohio Psychological Association

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Jimenez XF, Aboussouan A, Mandell D, Huffman KL. (in press). [Correspondence article]. Additional evidence supporting the central sensitization inventory (CSI) as an outcome measure amongst chronic pain patients in functional restoration program care. Spine J., 2017.

  2. Huffman KL, Rush TE, Sweis GW, Vij B, Covington EC, Scheman J, Mathews M. Sustained improvements in pain, mood, function and opioid use post interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation in patients weaned from high and low dose chronic opioid therapy. PAIN. 158(7):1380-1394, 2017.

  3. Huffman KL, Shella ER, Sweis GW, Griffith SD, Scheman J, Covington EC. Non-opioid substance use disorder and opioid dose predict therapeutic opioid addiction. JPain, 16(2), 126-34, 2015.

  4. Bhati KS, Hoyt WT, Huffman KL. Integration or assimilation: locating qualitative research in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 11: 98-114, 2014.

  5. Huffman KL, Sweis G, Gase A, Scheman J, Covington EC. Opioid use 12 months following interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation with weaning. Pain Medicine. 14(12):1908-17, 2013.

  6. Sweis GW, Huffman KL, Shella ER, Covington EC, Scheman J. Interdisciplinary rehabilitation program successfully treats patients with chronic pain and coexisting chemical dependency. Neuroscience Pathways, 19- 20, (2012/2013).

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