Roni Evans, DC, MS, PhD

Dr. Evans is a clinical research scientist with nearly 30 years of experience leading research teams. Her work has been largely in the area of comparative effectiveness research, investigating non-drug approaches for individuals struggling with pain. Her focus has included manual therapies, exercise, mindfulness, cognitive behavioral strategies, and other complementary and integrative approaches that support self-management. She served on the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health and has been an investigator of several randomized clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration.

Dr. Evans' current research focuses on facilitating health and wellbeing behaviors with an emphasis on engaging populations too often underrepresented in complementary and integrative health and pain research. She is an active mentor for several pre-doctoral and postdoctoral mentees. Dr. Evans’ loves to spend time outdoors kayaking, hiking, skiing, and snowshoeing. 

Research Summary/Interests

• Randomized and hybrid effectiveness-implementation trials
• Community engaged research
• Self-management behaviors
• Non-drug treatments
• Marginalized and minoritized populations
• Complementary and integrative therapies (mind-body)
• Biopsychosocial Wellbeing/Whole Person Health
• Pain management
• Musculoskeletal pain (low back pain, neck pain, headache)
• Dissemination and implementation
• Research training
• Mindfulness and contemplative practices

Research Funding Grants

• Reaching Rural Veterans: Applying Mind-Body Skills for Pain Using a Whole Health Telehealth Intervention -RAMP-WH (1UG3NR020929-01 - Burgess, D; Evans, R; Hadlandsmyth, K)
• Managing Perioperative Pain with Abdominal Laparoscopic Surgery: A Collaborative to Develop, Disseminate, and Evaluate Evidence-Based Practices - M-PALS Collaborative - (Southwell/Butler - U01FD008147-01) – Food and Drug Administration
• Partners for Pain & Wellbeing Equity: A Randomized Trial of Community Supported Complementary and Integrative Health Self Management for Back Pain (1R61AT012309-01 Evans/Leininger) -- National Institutes of Health Center for Complementary & Integrative Health
• Spinal Manipulation and Patient Self-Management to Prevent Back Pain Chronicity -- PACBACK (4UH3AT008769, Bronfort) -- National Institutes of Health Center for Complementary & Integrative Health
• Testing two scalable, Veteran-centric mindfulness-based interventions for chronic musculoskeletal pain: A pragmatic, multisite trial (W81XWH182, Burgess) -- Department of Defense

Publications

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1j9xg8tuyjvkP/bibliography/46338431/public/?sort=date&direction=descending

Courses

CSPH 3001 - Introduction to Integrative Healing

CSPH 5303 Pain Management and Evidence Based Complementary Health Approaches