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Luda Diatchenko

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology · 2021 - Present Anesthesiology, Clinical Science Departments

Recent Publications


Impact of different acute low back pain definitions on the predictors and on the risk of transition to chronic low back pain: a prospective longitudinal cohort study.

Journal Article Pain · November 2025 AbstractInconsistencies in the identification of predictors for the transition from acute low back pain (aLBP) to chronic LBP (cLBP) may be attributed to the varying definitions of aLBP used in different studies. We investigated how adopting diffe ... Full text Cite

How people resolve pain: insights from human transcriptomics into immune activation and therapeutic innovations.

Journal Article Pain · November 1, 2025 Patients with chronic pain commonly exhibit elevated inflammatory markers in the blood that correlate with reported pain and pain-related disability. Although inflammation is traditionally seen as a driver of chronic pain, recent transcriptomic data challe ... Full text Link to item Cite

The cell-type-specific genetic architecture of chronic pain in brain and dorsal root ganglia.

Journal Article J Clin Invest · October 7, 2025 Chronic pain is a complex clinical problem comprising multiple conditions that may share a common genetic profile. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many risk loci whose cell-type context remains unclear. Here, we integrated GWAS data ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Russia) · 1993 Ph.D.
Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Russia) · 1990 M.D.
Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Russia) · 1990 M.S.