Bi-Directional Associations of Chronic Pain: Exploring How Trauma May Impact Rehab and Functional Outcomes

Benjamin M. Keizer, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical health psychologist with extensive post-doctoral training in clinical health psychology at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium. He serves as the head of Health and Human Performance Psychology at the Center for the Intrepid (CFI), Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas where he provides care for military service members who have sustained serious injuries (e.g., amputation, limb-salvage, multi-trauma, major surgery). In this capacity he serves as both a provider and program director for the Functional Restoration Program for chronic pain and a provider and program manager of the Special Operations Performance and Recovery (SPaR) program. He has been awarded an Army Systems of Health Innovation Grant as a result of excellence in creating novel interdisciplinary programs, and his leadership resulted in a 2018 and 2022 Best of the Best Specialty Care Clinic award from the military and Army Health Systems.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Benjamin Keizer has employment relationships with the San Antonio Military Medical Center and Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Benjamin Keizer has no relevant non-financial relationships.

John Jones, PhD, is a fellowship trained clinical health psychologist with the 59th Medical Operations Squadron at Joint Based San Antonio-Lackland, TX. He currently serves as health psychology faculty for the clinical psychology residency at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, San Antonio, TX. He has also been certified in Motivational Interviewing by the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). As a MINT trainer he has a passion for empowering medical professionals across multiple disciplines – physical therapy, occupational therapy, psychology, and physician practices – to seamlessly integrate motivational interviewing techniques into their daily practice.

Through dynamic workshops, personalized coaching, and evidence-based strategies, he equips providers with the tools to foster genuine connections with patients.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: John Jones Jr. has an employment relationship with Rochester College. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: John Jones Jr. is a member of the Society of Air Force Psychologists, the Society for Military Psychology, and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.