# Midcareer K24 Award for Mentoring and Patient-Oriented Research

> **NIH NIH K24** · SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH · 2024 · $200,393

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
This K24 award will support the candidate’s development as a mentor and substance use investigator, while
completing a novel study of the use of non-prescribed stimulants in the self-care of chronic pain, particularly
among people living with HIV and neuropathic pain. The candidate will complete training in mentoring through
differentness to further enhance his ability to mentor trainees underrepresented in science, while also
developing and delivering a training targeted for mentors not underrepresented, in order to improve the
pipeline of senior mentors who can effectively mentor underrepresented trainees. He will also enhance his
abilities to conduct substance use research by obtaining additional training in implementation science,
ecological momentary assessment, adaptive trial design, and pain research. He will undertake directed reading
with experts in pain research and in mentoring. In addition, the candidate will pursue new research to examine
the phenomenon of non-prescribed stimulant use self-care of chronic pain. The candidate will enroll 50 people
living with HIV and neuropathic pain who report methamphetamine use for pain self-care for 6 months of
ecological momentary assessments, to determine the relationship between use and functional pain. The
candidate will conduct qualitative interviews with 30 of the participants to explore the nature of the pain and
relationship between physical and social pain, as well as the perceived risks and benefits to methamphetamine
use. Finally, he will compare those who do not use stimulants, who use stimulants for pain, and who use
stimulants for other reasons from his longitudinal cohort study of patients with chronic pain to establish
longitudinal effects of methamphetamine use for pain self-care.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10770541
- **Project number:** 5K24DA042720-07
- **Recipient organization:** SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
- **Principal Investigator:** PHILLIP O COFFIN
- **Activity code:** K24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $200,393
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2023-02-01 → 2028-01-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10770541

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10770541, Midcareer K24 Award for Mentoring and Patient-Oriented Research (5K24DA042720-07). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10770541. Licensed CC0.

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