Research Professor
University of Miami and Miami VA
Dr. Felix is a Research Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and a Research Health Scientist at the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with Honors and a PhD in Biological and Experimental Psychology from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has over 20 years of experience using psychophysical techniques to study somatosensory function (i.e., quantitative sensory testing), in both healthy populations and in a variety of patient samples. Her primary research expertise is in the multidimensional measurement of chronic pain, and her work is aimed at understanding the contributions of both somatosensory dysfunction and psychosocial factors associated with pain report and function. Her current funded research includes investigations of the mechanisms underlying the development of neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury, and the characterization and diagnosis of chronic nociplastic ocular pain. She has a long record of collaborative, multidisciplinary research, has published more than 80 peer-reviewed research articles, and has had continuous federal funding as PI since 2012.
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