Dr. Aoyagi is a physical therapist and rehabilitation scientist and conducts clinical pain research focusing on multiple aspects of chronic pain experience in individuals with knee osteoarthritis (OA) and chronic low back pain (CLBP). Dr. Aoyagi's research program aims to develop effective non-pharmacological pain management strategies for improving symptoms of individuals with knee OA and CLBP by integrating non-pharmacological interventions, clinical epidemiology, quantitative sensory testing, biopsychosocial, behavioral and cultural factors, social determinants of health, and racial and ethnic differences in chronic pain experience. He also has extensive experience using multiple national datasets to identify risk factors and predictors for chronic pain experience. Those datasets include The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST) (NIH-funded cohort of 3000 older adults with or at risk for knee OA), The OptumLabs® Data Warehouse, and All of Us Research Program. For his Lab's information, please visit https://www.utep.edu/chs/primept/