Jeffery A Dusek, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of California- Irvine (UCI) and Director of Research Outcomes, Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute (ssihi.uci), Dr. Dusek has 25+ years of experience leading innovative integrative health and medicine (IHH) research at research and healthcare institutions.

Over the past 10 years, Dusek has received NIH funding for four studies. Dusek was PI of NCCIH R01 to further explore the effectiveness (or outcomes) of integrative interventions (massage therapy, acupuncture) on repeated measures of self-reported pain for hospitalized patients. Dusek was also PI of a multi-site NCCIH R01 to study the effects of acupuncture on acute pain for individuals in three Emergency Departments affiliated with the BraveNet Practice Based Research Network (PBRN). More recently, Dusek serves PI of a multi-site NCCIH R01 to study the music therapy for pain in individuals with sickle cell disease. He is also PI of a NCCIH U24 network grant to assemble music therapists, neuroscience experts and clinical trialists to explore the biological basis of how music therapy impacts pain.
Dusek also serves as the co-leader of the BraveNet PBRN– which includes 32 well-known IHH groups across the US, as well as in Canada, Australia, Brazil and Korea.

Dusek has published over 120 scientific articles in peer reviewed medical literature and, according to Google Scholar, his research has been cited over 12,000 times. His research has been published in eminent journals such as the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Circulation, JAMA Network Open and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. His research has been featured in such venues as the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today and National Public Radio.