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Lonnie K Zeltzer, MD
Dr. Zeltzer is a Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine. She received her B.A. (Pre-medicine) at Douglass College-Rutgers University, N.J., and M.D. at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She completed a Pediatric Internship at UCLA, Residency at the University of Arizona (Tucson), and Adolescent Medicine Fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. She is Director of the UCLA Pediatric Pain Program at the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and is also Associate Director of the Patients and Survivors Program of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research of UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is also a member of the UCLA Norman Cousins Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) Program Task Force. On a national level, she has been a member of the Human Development Study Section at NIH, the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Pediatric Research, and the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (SDBP) Executive Council. She has also been a member of the Developmental Psychobiology of Stress Research Consortium and the Advisory Committee of the Children’s Social Competence and Health Outcomes Project of the Center for the Advancement of Health. She has served as past-Secretary/Treasurer of SDBP and past-President of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. She has been a recipient of a William T Grant Foundation Faculty Scholar's Award and a Research Career Development Award from the National Cancer Institute.
Her clinical work, teaching, and research are intertwined. Her clinical program integrates complementary and traditional therapies for treatment of chronic pain and she studies the development of chronic pain, mind-body-pain connections, and the impact of complementary therapies on chronic pain. She has completed studies of hypnotherapy, acupuncture, yoga, and meditation and is part of an NIH-funded national research consortium studying the late effects of childhood cancer. She is Principal Investigator of a $2.4 million NIH-funded study of the relationship between gender, puberty, and pain. She has published over one hundred articles, reviews, and chapters related to pediatric pain or surviving childhood cancer.
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