About Us

The PROCAIM Network is a centralized data collection and information system that brings together a broad and heterogeneous population of patients, participants in health enhancement programs, clinicians, and academic researchers. The purposes of this network are (1) to evaluate integrative medicine including pharmacologic, psychologic, and complementary and alternative interventions through participant-reported outcome assessments and (2) to provide a forum for the exchange of relevant clinical information and recent research findings. Our overall mission is to advance understanding of the broad range of mind/body and alternative therapies and the treatment of a variety of stress-related conditions with overlapping symptoms.

PROCAIM was developed under a grant from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine to UCLA researchers to study the effectiveness of complementary and alternative therapies, and the interactions among stress and coping, pain, and treatment outcomes.

We are currently inviting people with fibromyalgia, IBS, interstitial cystitis, chronic pain, and other chronic and recurring conditions to sign up and participate in a year-long Internet-based survey.

This is a web-based study composed of surveys that will recur at intervals over 1 year!

TO ENROLL

Register as a New User (click Enroll Here).
Select clinic name: PROCAIM
Read and sign the Consent Form.

After you "sign" the form with your email address, you can begin to answer the first in a series of questionnaires. The system will send you email reminders at the time of each scheduled follow-up for one year.

For more information, please download our brochure. [ Brochure Link ]
Adobe Reader is required to view the brochure. If you don't have Adobe Reader, you will need to download and install it on your own computer. To download Adobe Reader to your computer. [ Adobe Reader Download ]

The PROCAIM Staff

Deborah Lynn Ackerman, M.S., Ph.D. - Director
Roger Bolus, Ph.D. - Co-Director
Jaime L. Natoli, M.P.H. - Coordinator
Cathy Liu - Programmer

The CNS Board of Directors

Emeran A. Mayer, M.D. - Director
Lin Chang, M.D. - Co-Director
Bruce Naliboff, Ph.D. - Co-Director
Yvette Taché, Ph.D. - Co-Director

The PROCAIM web site was created and is maintained by the UCLA Computing Technologies Research Lab (CTRL)

Robert Dennis, Ph.D. - Co-Director
Khy Huang - Project Leader
Rey Encarnacion - Project Programmer

The development of PROCAIM was supported by a grant from the National Center for Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine to the UCLA Center for Neurobiology of Stress and by a grant from the Samueli Institute.