The Millennium Pain Center is a multidisciplinary clinic that is dedicated to treating patients with chronic pain conditions through compassion and innovation. Our team of clinical and research experts are very well qualified to extending the treatment of patients through productive and cutting edge clinical research.

Our center has been involved in clinical research for 4 years. We are currently involved in clinical trials with both device and pharmaceutical companies and are interested in CRO collaboration.

Our center is well qualified for the following therapeutic areas:

• Low Back Pain
• Neck Pain
• Neuropathic Pain Conditions
• Postherpetic Neuralgia
• Fibromyalgia
• Osteoarthritis
• Degenerative Disc Disease
• Diabetic Neuropathy
• CRPS / RSD
• Other chronic pain conditions

• Insomnia
• Constipation (chronic opioid use)
• Depression

The Millennium Pain Center pain management facilities are fully housed in one location. Our facility offers clinic areas for patient enrollment as well as two procedure suits with fluoroscopic imaging. Imaging technology is available including MRI, CT and X-ray on site. We offer outpatient pain management capabilities with a recovery area for minimally invasive procedures. We collaborate with a team of therapists and psychologist on site as well. Finally, we have dedicated research areas for blood work and private patient examination room(s) for those involved in research studies.

Principal Investigators:

Ramsin Banyamin, MD, FIPP
Pain Management Specialist
Over 10 years of clinical research experience

Ricardo Vallejo, MD, PhD, FIPP
Pain Management Specialist
Over 7 years of clinical and pre-clinical research experience

Atiq Ur Rehman, MD

Sub-Investigators:

Mike Kahwaji, PsyD
Over 15 years of clinical experience

Paul Willett, PhD
Over 15 years clinical experience and 11 years of research experience

Jeffery Kramer, PhD
Director, Translational and Clinical Research
Over 15 years of research experience in the public and private sector

Sara Ditchen, BS, CCRC
Clinical Research Coordinator

Leslie Campbell, CCRC
Clinical Research Coordinator
Over 10 years of clinical research experience

Our patient population covers most of central and southern Illinois with East-West boundaries stretching from Indiana to Iowa, and North-South boundaries stretching from Chicago to the Southernmost point of Illinois.

Our research staff has experience in utilizing both local and central IRBs for clinical research. Turn around averages 1-2 weeks depending upon submission timing. Our local IRB meets once per month. Our physicians have privileges at both BroMenn Medical Center and St. Joseph Medical Center in the Bloomington-Normal area for outpatient studies that require surgical suites.

Currently, members of our research team have adjunct academic appointments at Illinois State University, the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria.

CenterWatch is listing the following trials that are actively recruiting patients at this center.

• Opioid-induced constipation

For more information, please contact:

Jeff Kramer
Director, Translational and Clinical Research
Millennium Pain Center
1015 S. Mercer Ave.
Bloomington, IL 61701 USA
Phone: 309-662-4321
Fax: 309-661-4532
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Last updated on April 16, 2008

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