Publications

For a complete and up-to-date list, please see my Curriculum Vitae.

Editorials

  • Rassu, F. S., Mathur, V. A., Merriwether, E. N., & Hirsh, A. T. (2026). Accelerating the science of equity: Insights and innovations from Health Psychology on pain disparities. Health Psychology, 45(1), 1–4.

  • Kenney, M. O., Rassu, F. S., Bartley, E. J., Hirsh, A. T., Janevic, M. R., Mathur, V. A., & Merriwether, E. N. (2026). Why this, why now? A unified call at a critical time. Health Psychology.

  • Kenney, M. O., Rassu, F. S., Bartley, E. J., Hirsh, A. T., Janevic, M. R., Mathur, V. A., & Merriwether, E. N. (in press). Why this, why now? A unified call at a critical time. The Journal of Pain.

Original Research

  1. Rassu, F. S., Johnson, S. M., Barron, D. S., Kalpakjian, C. Z., Slavin, M. D., Daneshvar, D. H., & Isaac, Z. (2025). Physician and patient perspectives on PROM implementation barriers in spine care and pain management: A mixed-methods assessment. BMJ Open Quality, 14, e003663.

  2. Rassu, F. S., Minick, K. I., Bardsley, T., Greene, T. H., Skolasky, R. L., & Fritz, J. M. (2025). Pain Disparities Among Medicaid Beneficiaries with Chronic Low Back Pain: The Differential Role of Psychological Distress. The Journal of Pain, 105550.

  3. Rassu, F.S., Staguhn, E., Ravyts, S., Castillo, R., Wiechman, S.A., Kirkhart, T., Aaron, R.V., Acton, A., Ware, L., Milner, S.M. Price, L.A., Fauerbach, J., Haythornthwaite, J.A., Wegener, S.T. (2025). Efficacy of an online self-management program for chronic burn pain: A randomized controlled trial of the Take Charge of Burn Pain program. Burns, 51(2), 107336.

  4. Rassu, F.S., Bhattiprolu, K., Campbell, C. M., Wegener, S. T., & Aaron, R. V. (2025). Neighborhood disadvantage and pain-related experiences in a pain psychology clinic: The mediating roles of pain catastrophizing and pain-related fear. The Journal of Pain, 27, 104744.

  5. Raghuraman, N., Akintola, T., Rassu, F. S., O'Connor, T. D., Chen, S., Gruber-Baldini, A., & Colloca, L. (2025). The effects of socioeconomic position on endogenous pain modulation: A quasi-experimental approach. The Journal of Pain, 104778.

  6. Ravyts, S. G., Carnahan, N., Campbell, C. M., Castillo, R. C., Wegener, S. T., Rassu, F. S., Lumley, M. A., Aaron, R. V. (2025). Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) for Persistent Pain Following Orthopedic Trauma: Study Protocol for a Single-Arm Feasibility Clinical Trial. BMJ Open, 15(3), e093102.

  7. Aaron, R. V., Rassu, F. S., Archer, K., Stone, A., Priest, A., Bhattiprolu, K., Bruehl, S., Osgood, G., Wegener, S. T., & Campbell, C. M. (2026). Quantitative Sensory Testing Following Orthopedic Trauma: A Longitudinal Multi-Site Feasibility Study. The Clinical Journal of Pain. Accepted for publication.

  8. Hertz, A. G., Dawson, D. B., Rassu, F. S., Ecker, A. H., Helm, A., Hundt, N. E., & Fletcher, T. L. (2023). Delivery of Exposure and Response Prevention Among Veterans with Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 1-10.

  9. Aaron, R. V., Rassu, F.S., Wegener, S. T., Holley, A. L., Castillo, R. C., Osgood, G. M., & Fisher, E. (2023). Psychological treatments for the management of pain after musculoskeletal injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PAIN, 10-1097.

  10. Rassu, F.S., McFadden, M., Aaron, R.V., Wegener, S.T., Ephraim, P.L, Lane, E., Brennan, G., Minick, K.I., Fritz, J.M., Skolasky, R.L. (2021). The relationship between neighborhood deprivation and perceived changes for pain-related experiences among U.S. patients with chronic low back pain during the COVID19 pandemic. Pain Med., 22(11), 2550-2565.

  11. Rassu, F.S., Sansgiry, S., Hundt, N.E., Kunik, M.E., & Cully, J.A. (2021). Presence of PTSD is associated with clinical and functional impact in Veterans with depression treated in community-based clinics. J. Clin. Psychol. Med. Settings, 1-10.

  12. You, D.S., Rassu, F.S., Meagher, M.W. (2021). Emotion regulation strategies moderate the impact of negative affect induction on alcohol craving in college drinkers: an experimental paradigm. J. Am. Coll. Heal., 1-9.

  13. Fritz, J.M., Lane, E., Minick, K.I., Bardsley, T., Brennan, G., Rassu, F.S., Wegener, S.T., Skolasky, R.L. (2021). Perceptions of telehealth physical therapy among patients with chronic low back pain. Telemed. Reports, 2(1), 258-263.

  14. Evans-Hudnall, G., Odafe, M.O., Johnson, A., Armenti, N., O'Neil, J., Lawson, E., Trahan, L.H., & Rassu, F.S. (2020). Using an adjunctive treatment to address psychological distress in a national weight management program: Results of an integrated pilot study. Mil. Med., 185(9-10), e1662-e1670.

  15. Rassu, F.S., Luedke, J.C, Nanavaty, N., Mathur, V.A., Meagher, M.W. (2020). Greater mechanical temporal summation of pain in Latinx-americans and the role of adverse life experiences. Pain Reports, 5(5), e842.

  16. Rassu, F.S., Linsenbardt, H.R., Fields, S.A., & Meagher, M.W. (2018). Does pain impact preference? The effect of tonic laboratory pain on discounting of delayed rewards. J. Pain, 19(9), 962-972.

  17. Fields, S.A., Lange, K., Ramos, A., Thamotharan, S., & Rassu, F.S. (2014). The relationship between stress and delay discounting: a meta-analytic review. Behav. Pharmacol., 25(5-6), 434-444.

  18. Johnson, R.R., Bouchard, S.M., Prentice, T.W., Bridegam P, Young, C.R., Rassu, F.S., Steelman, A.J., Welsh Jr., T.H., Welsh, C.J.R., & Meagher, M.W. (2014). Neonatal experience interacts with adult social stress to alter acute and chronic Theiler's virus infection. Brain Behav. Immun, 40, 110-120.

  19. Brinkmeyer-Langford, C., Young, C., Rodrigues, A., Haney, R., Rassu, F.S., Steelman, A.J., Young, C., Riggs, P., Storts, R. Meagher, M.W., Welsh, C.J.R. (2014). Consequences of perinatal bisphenol A exposure in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis. Autoimmunity, 47(1), 57–66.

Book Chapters

  • Fletcher, T. L., Ecker, A. H., Boykin, D. M., Dawson, D. B., Rassu, F., & Hundt, N. E. (2021). Technology-based psychotherapies for OCD. In E. Storch, D. McKay, & J. Abramowitz (Eds). Complexities in Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders: Advances in Conceptualization and Treatment.