Edwin Aroke PhD, CRNA, FAANA, FAAN
Associate Professor (Tenured), Director of PhD Program, CRNA, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Edwin Aroke is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) and a Tenured Associate professor at the UAB School of Nursing. He is passionate about achieving equity in pain management. Specifically, his research program examines mechanisms that cause and sustain chronic pain and pain disparities using genomics/epigenomics. Edwin's current NIH/NIAMS-funded project examines the role of epigenomic and transcriptomic modifications in racial disparities in chronic low back pain.