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Michael J. Chandler is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a significant focus on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Pharmacology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Physiology.

Their research revolves around several core topics, including:

  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes

Chandler's recent publications display a concentration on pain management and opioid therapy. The following papers outline some of their latest work:

  • Care Models to Improve Pain and Reduce Opioids Among Patients Prescribed Long-Term Opioid Therapy (2024), published in JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Buprenorphine, Pain, and Opioid Use in Patients Taking High-Dose Long-Term Opioids (2025), published in JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Characterizing Patients after Opioid Taper in a VA Medical Center (2021), published in Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy
  • Comparing Effectiveness of Gabapentin and Pregabalin in Treatment of Neuropathic Pain: A Retrospective Cohort of Palliative Care Outpatients (2020), published in Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy
  • Developing a Life Story Intervention for Older Adults With Dementia or at Risk of Delirium Who Were Hospitalized: Multistage, Stakeholder-Engaged Co-Design Study (2024), published in JMIR Aging

They frequently publish in venues such as:

  • JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy
  • JMIR Aging
  • Cureus
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Chandler collaborates often with several co-authors, including:

  • Jacob T. Painter
  • Erin E. Krebs
  • David Nelson
  • Beth DeRonne
  • Allyson M. Kats

Best Publications

  • Cultural Continuity as a Hedge against Suicide in Canada's First Nations

    Michael J. Chandler;Christopher E. Lalonde

  • Egocentrism and antisocial behavior: The assessment and training of social perspective-taking skills.

    Michael J. Chandler

  • Factors influencing the outcome of psychotherapy: A review of quantitative research.

    Lester Luborsky;Arthur H. Auerbach;Michael Chandler;Jacob Cohen

  • Small-scale deceit: deception as a marker of two-, three-, and four-year-olds' early theories of mind.

    Michael Chandler;Anna S. Fritz;Suzanne Hala

  • Personal persistence, identity development, and suicide: a study of Native and Non-native North American adolescents

    Michael J. Chandler;Christopher E. Lalonde;Bryan W. Sokol;Darcy Hallett

  • On the Distinction between False Belief Understanding and Subscribing to an Interpretive Theory of Mind

    Jeremy I. Carpendale;Michael J. Chandler

  • Aboriginal language knowledge and youth suicide

    Darcy Hallett;Darcy Hallett;Michael J. Chandler;Christopher E. Lalonde

  • Wisdom: Explorations in Adult Competence

    Stephen G. Holliday;Michael J. Chandler

  • False belief understanding goes to school: On the social-emotional consequences of coming early or late to a first theory of mind.

    Chris E. Lalonde;Michael J. Chandler

  • Cognitive development, epistemic doubt, and identity formation in adolescence.

    Michael C. Boyes;Michael Chandler

  • Doubt and developing theories of mind.

    Michael Chandler

  • Fledgling Theories of Mind: Deception as a Marker of Three‐Year‐Olds' Understanding of False Belief

    Suzanne Hala;Michael Chandler;Anna S. Fritz

  • Assessment and Training of Role-Taking and Referential Communication Skills in Institutionalized Emotionally Disturbed Children.

    Michael J. Chandler;Stephen Greenspan;Carl Barenboim

  • Cultural Continuity as a Protective Factor Against Suicide in First Nations Youth

    Michael J. Chandler;Christopher E. Lalonde

  • Competing claims about competing knowledge claims.

    Michael J. Chandler;Darcy Hallett;Bryan W. Sokol

  • The Othello Effect

    Michael Chandler

  • Children's understanding of interpretation

    Christopher E Lalonde;Michael J Chandler

  • Relativism and stations of epistemic doubt

    Michael Chandler;Michael Boyes;Lorraine Ball

  • Developmental Changes in the Contribution of Shared Experience to Social Role-Taking Competence

    Michael J. Chandler;David Helm

  • Ersatz egocentrism: A reply to H. Borke.

    Michael J. Chandler;Stephen Greenspan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy I. M. Carpendale
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale Simon Fraser University
Carol S. Dweck
Carol S. Dweck Stanford University
Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia
Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia Michigan State University
Reinhard Pekrun
Reinhard Pekrun Australian Catholic University
Louis J. Moses
Louis J. Moses University of Oregon
Hubert J. M. Hermans
Hubert J. M. Hermans Radboud University
Katherine Nelson
Katherine Nelson City University of New York
Pascal Boyer
Pascal Boyer Washington University in St. Louis
Paul L. Harris
Paul L. Harris Harvard University
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University

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