Ashlyn Schmitgen

Clinical Research Coordinator
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Ashlyn Schmitgen is a Clinical Research Coordinator working with the DBS chronic pain team. Ashlyn graduated from UC San Diego with a B.S. in Public Health and minor in General Biology. Her clinical background includes work as an EMT, Medical Assistant, Emergency Department Medical Scribe, Inpatient Critical Care Intern, and UCSF Health Hospital Assistant. After helping launch the NIH-sponsored Precision Medicine Initiative at UCSF, Ashlyn joined the UCSF Shirvalkar Lab with a focus on improving patient behavioral reporting in the team's efforts to better understand and treat refractory chronic pain conditions using deep brain stimulation. 

Publications: 

Quantifying Pain Location and Intensity with Multimodal Pain Body Diagrams.

Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE

Kwong J, Lin J, Leriche R, Wozny TA, Shaughnessy A, Schmitgen A, Shirvalkar P

First-in-human prediction of chronic pain state using intracranial neural biomarkers.

Nature neuroscience

Shirvalkar P, Prosky J, Chin G, Ahmadipour P, Sani OG, Desai M, Schmitgen A, Dawes H, Shanechi MM, Starr PA, Chang EF

Practical Closed-Loop Strategies for Deep Brain Stimulation: Lessons From Chronic Pain.

Frontiers in neuroscience

Prosky J, Cagle J, Sellers KK, Gilron R, de Hemptinne C, Schmitgen A, Starr PA, Chang EF, Shirvalkar P

Musical Hallucinations in Chronic Pain: The Anterior Cingulate Cortex Regulates Internally Generated Percepts.

Frontiers in neurology

Schmitgen A, Saal J, Sankaran N, Desai M, Joseph I, Starr P, Chang EF, Shirvalkar P