At Michigan Medicine (MM) Back and Pain Center we provide a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to pain management. Kimberly Bialik, Ph.D. is part of this team as a pain psychologist. She has over 30 years of experience specializing in behavioral pain assessment, chronic pain education, and a variety of evidenced based behavioral treatment interventions such as mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral therapy, acceptance commitment therapy, and emotional awareness and expression therapy. Care is delivered either in person at the MM Back and Pain Center or virtual.

Our center also offers other specialized programs such as neuromodulation (i.e., spinal cord stimulators), opioid transitions to buprenorphine and preparing patients for orthopedic surgeries. Dr. Bialik provides the pre intervention assessments to ensure patients will have successful outcomes.

Research interests include developing a brief trauma informed behavioral pain management approach to broaden the patient's understanding of how chronic pain and trauma overlap and what actions they can take to lessen pain.