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

Dusek is the contact PI of a multi-site R01 from NCCIH to study the effects of acupuncture on acute pain for individuals in three Emergency Departments affiliated with the BraveNet Practice Based Research Network (PBRN).  BraveNet PBRN includes 26 well-known integrative health clinics across the US, Canada and Australia (ssihi.uci.edu/research/bravenet/). Dusek serves as BraveNet PBRN’s PRIMIER study, which was a real-world, multi-site observational study of overall 2500 patients.

Dusek has published over 100 scientific articles in peer reviewed medical literature and, according to Google Scholar his research has been cited over 11,000 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.