Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Women's Health Research Program
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
Lesley M. Arnold, MD, is Director of the Women’s Health Research Program and
Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Arnold
focuses on research studies of health problems that are of particular concern to
women and are at the medicine-psychiatry interface. Dr. Arnold conducts studies
of chronic pain disorders including fibromyalgia, migraine, chronic low back pain,
osteoarthritis pain, and neuropathy. She has over 25 years’ experience leading
medication trials in chronic pain, designing clinical trial protocols, and developing
patient-reported outcome measures. As part of an effort to discover new non
opioid medical treatments for chronic pain and improve the assessment of pain
for clinical trials, Dr. Arnold has conducted functional neuroimaging studies of
chronic pain mechanisms.