Bio for Howard SChubiner, MD
Dr. Howard Schubiner is an internist and pediatrician, who attained the rank of full Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1999. He the director of the Mind-Body Medicine Center at Ascension Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan. He is a Clinical Professor at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and is a fellow in the American College of Physicians, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has authored more than 100 publications in scientific journals and books, and lectures regionally, nationally, and internationally. He has consulted for the American Medical Association, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Mental Health.
Dr. Schubiner is the author of three books: Unlearn Your Pain, Unlearn Your Anxiety and Depression, and Hidden From View, a practical handbook for clinicians written with Dr. Allan Abbass. He has collaborated extensively with Mark Lumley, PhD, a Professor of Psychology at Wayne State University in a series of studies to develop psychological treatments for chronic pain. They developed Emotion Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), which has been tested in various formats for people with different chronic pain conditions and found to be not only effective compared to treatment as usual but superior to CBT in two trials.
EAET is now listed as a “best practice” in the 2019 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inter-agency Task Force Report to combat the opioid epidemic. Dr. Schubiner also worked with Alan Gordon, LCSW as they developed a related pain treatment protocol, Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT). In 2020, PRT was tested for people with back pain in an NIH-funded brain imaging study at the University of Colorado published in JAMA Psychiatry which found the novel treatment cured 66% of people who were randomly assigned to it.
Dr. Schubiner lives, practices medicine, and teaches medical professionals in the Detroit area with his wife of thirty-seven years. You can find out more about his work at his site, Unlearn Your Pain.