Jodie Trafton
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Formerly Arkansas Affiliated with UAMS through 2024; recent publications list United States Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Palo Alto Health Care System.
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Biography and Research Information
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Jodie Trafton's research primarily focuses on pain management, opioid use, and related health outcomes, particularly within veteran populations. Trafton has investigated the associations between stopping opioid prescriptions, the duration of opioid treatment, and subsequent overdose or suicide deaths in US veterans. This work has involved the development and application of tools like the Veterans Health Administration’s Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM) to enhance opioid safety and prevent adverse events.
Trafton's publications also address the impact of interventions on postoperative pain and opioid cessation, including the effect of perioperative gabapentin. Further research has explored the treatment needs associated with pain in individuals with substance use disorders, highlighting implications for concurrent treatment strategies. Early work by Trafton also examined the neurobiological mechanisms of pain sensation, including studies on capsaicin receptors and neurokinin-1 receptor internalization in response to noxious stimulation.
With a substantial publication record of 199 works and a high citation count, Trafton is recognized as a highly cited researcher. Collaborations include work with Matthew Tyler Boden at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences such as Sara J. Landes, Karen L. Drummond, and Rajinder Sonia Singh.
Metrics
- h-index: 46
- Publications: 199
- Citations: 9,797
Selected Publications
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Association of short-term ambient environmental exposures with suicide and drug overdose deaths among U.S. Veterans (2026)
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A Multi-Stage Validation Framework for Trustworthy Large-scale Clinical Information Extraction using Large Language Models (2026)arXiv (Cornell University) OpenAlex
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A Multi-Stage Validation Framework for Trustworthy Large-scale Clinical Information Extraction using Large Language Models (2026)
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Leveraging large language models to automate the identification of healthcare access barriers for veterans (2025)
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A modeling study of the opioid epidemic for vulnerable communities in Knoxville, Tennessee (2025)
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Is the Veterans Affairs Suicide Prevention in Emergency Department Intervention associated with improved mental health attendance and all-cause mortality outcomes? (2025)
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Defining suicidality phenotypes for genetic studies: perspectives of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Suicide Working Group (2025)
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VA Determinants of Health Data Curation Documentation FY25-Q3 (2025)
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Describing county-level clustering patterns of suicide among Veterans Health Administration patients and all American adults, 2018–2019, using exploratory spatial data analysis (2025)
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VA Determinants of Health Data Curation Documentation FY25-Q2 (2025)
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VA EDH Advanced Software Pipeline Framework Report: Enhancing Automation and Scalability (2025)
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Identifying spatiotemporal patterns in opioid vulnerability: investigating the links between disability, prescription opioids and opioid-related mortality (2025)
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Combining Machine Learning and Comparative Effectiveness Methodology to Study Primary Care Pharmacotherapy Pathways for Veterans With Depression (2025)
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A multilevel investigation of potential inequities in the volume of mental health care received by Black Veterans Health Administration patients. (2025)
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State-level suicide mortality insights: a comparative study of VHA veterans and the whole US population (2025)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
- Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid treatment, and overdose or suicide deaths in US veterans: observational evaluation
- Development and applications of the Veterans Health Administration’s Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM) to improve opioid safety and prevent overdose and suicide.
- Treatment needs associated with pain in substance use disorder patients: implications for concurrent treatment
- Cost-effectiveness of Treatments for Opioid Use Disorder
- Pharmacotherapy of Alcohol Use Disorders by the Veterans Health Administration: Patterns of Receipt and Persistence
Showing 5 of 30 shared publications
- Effect of Perioperative Gabapentin on Postoperative Pain Resolution and Opioid Cessation in a Mixed Surgical Cohort
- Treatment needs associated with pain in substance use disorder patients: implications for concurrent treatment
- Cost-effectiveness of Treatments for Opioid Use Disorder
- Pharmacotherapy of Alcohol Use Disorders by the Veterans Health Administration: Patterns of Receipt and Persistence
- Predictors of retention in methadone programs: A signal detection analysis
Showing 5 of 25 shared publications
- Development and applications of the Veterans Health Administration’s Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM) to improve opioid safety and prevent overdose and suicide.
- Evaluation of the Acceptability and Usability of a Decision Support System to Encourage Safe and Effective Use of Opioid Therapy for Chronic, Noncancer Pain by Primary Care Providers
- What Do Patients Do With Unused Opioid Medications?
- Time-to-Cessation of Postoperative Opioids: A Population-Level Analysis of the Veterans Affairs Health Care System
- Reasons for Under-Use of Prescribed Opioid Medications by Patients in Pain
Showing 5 of 20 shared publications
- Prevalence of cannabis use disorder diagnoses among veterans in 2002, 2008, and 2009.
- Pharmacotherapy of Alcohol Use Disorders by the Veterans Health Administration: Patterns of Receipt and Persistence
- Pharmacotherapy for alcohol dependence: Perceived treatment barriers and action strategies among Veterans Health Administration service providers.
- Receipt of opioid agonist treatment in the Veterans Health Administration: Facility and patient factors
- Trends in Opioid Agonist Therapy in the Veterans Health Administration: Is Supply Keeping up with Demand?
Showing 5 of 19 shared publications
- Development and applications of the Veterans Health Administration’s Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM) to improve opioid safety and prevent overdose and suicide.
- Evaluation of the Acceptability and Usability of a Decision Support System to Encourage Safe and Effective Use of Opioid Therapy for Chronic, Noncancer Pain by Primary Care Providers
- Designing an automated clinical decision support system to match clinical practice guidelines for opioid therapy for chronic pain
- High dimensional predictions of suicide risk in 4.2 million US Veterans using ensemble transfer learning
- Improving Patient Safety Using ATHENA-Decision Support System Technology: The Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain Experience
Showing 5 of 18 shared publications
- Geographical Insights into Suicide Mortality Through Spatial Machine Learning
- Dataset Repository for Investigating Suicide Risk Using Social and Environmental Determinants of Health
- Identifying spatiotemporal patterns in opioid vulnerability: investigating the links between disability, prescription opioids and opioid-related mortality
- State-level suicide mortality insights: a comparative study of VHA veterans and the whole US population
- Describing county-level clustering patterns of suicide among Veterans Health Administration patients and all American adults, 2018–2019, using exploratory spatial data analysis
Showing 5 of 18 shared publications
- Seeking Safety treatment for male veterans with a substance use disorder and post‐traumatic stress disorder symptomatology
- Measurement-based management of mental health quality and access in VHA: SAIL mental health domain.
- Coping among military veterans with PTSD in substance use disorder treatment
- The impact of posttraumatic stress disorder on cannabis quit success
- Mental Health Treatment Quality, Access, and Satisfaction: Optimizing Staffing in an Era of Fiscal Accountability
Showing 5 of 14 shared publications
- Effect of Perioperative Gabapentin on Postoperative Pain Resolution and Opioid Cessation in a Mixed Surgical Cohort
- A Pilot Cohort Study of the Determinants of Longitudinal Opioid Use After Surgery
- Factors Associated With Acute Pain Estimation, Postoperative Pain Resolution, Opioid Cessation, and Recovery
- Efficacy of motivational-interviewing and guided opioid tapering support for patients undergoing orthopedic surgery (MI-Opioid Taper): A prospective, assessor-blind, randomized controlled pilot trial
- Self-Loathing Aspects of Depression Reduce Postoperative Opioid Cessation Rate
Showing 5 of 14 shared publications
- Geographical Insights into Suicide Mortality Through Spatial Machine Learning
- State-level suicide mortality insights: a comparative study of VHA veterans and the whole US population
- Describing county-level clustering patterns of suicide among Veterans Health Administration patients and all American adults, 2018–2019, using exploratory spatial data analysis
- VA EDH Data Curation Documentation (FY24-Q2)
- Leveraging large language models to automate the identification of healthcare access barriers for veterans
Showing 5 of 14 shared publications
- Participatory System Dynamics Modeling: Increasing Stakeholder Engagement and Precision to Improve Implementation Planning in Systems
- Seeking Safety treatment for male veterans with a substance use disorder and post‐traumatic stress disorder symptomatology
- Validation of a brief screen for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with substance use disorder patients
- Coping among military veterans with PTSD in substance use disorder treatment
- Prevalence and nature of criminal offending in a national sample of veterans in VA substance use treatment prior to the Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom conflicts.
Showing 5 of 12 shared publications
- Effect of Perioperative Gabapentin on Postoperative Pain Resolution and Opioid Cessation in a Mixed Surgical Cohort
- A Pilot Cohort Study of the Determinants of Longitudinal Opioid Use After Surgery
- Factors Associated With Acute Pain Estimation, Postoperative Pain Resolution, Opioid Cessation, and Recovery
- Efficacy of motivational-interviewing and guided opioid tapering support for patients undergoing orthopedic surgery (MI-Opioid Taper): A prospective, assessor-blind, randomized controlled pilot trial
- Self-Loathing Aspects of Depression Reduce Postoperative Opioid Cessation Rate
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
- Seeking Safety treatment for male veterans with a substance use disorder and post‐traumatic stress disorder symptomatology
- Coping among military veterans with PTSD in substance use disorder treatment
- Prevalence and nature of criminal offending in a national sample of veterans in VA substance use treatment prior to the Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom conflicts.
- Pilot Test of Seeking Safety Treatment With Male Veterans
- Letter
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
- Effect of Perioperative Gabapentin on Postoperative Pain Resolution and Opioid Cessation in a Mixed Surgical Cohort
- A Pilot Cohort Study of the Determinants of Longitudinal Opioid Use After Surgery
- Factors Associated With Acute Pain Estimation, Postoperative Pain Resolution, Opioid Cessation, and Recovery
- Self-Loathing Aspects of Depression Reduce Postoperative Opioid Cessation Rate
- Pain Duration and Resolution following Surgery: An Inception Cohort Study
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
- Dataset Repository for Investigating Suicide Risk Using Social and Environmental Determinants of Health
- Identifying spatiotemporal patterns in opioid vulnerability: investigating the links between disability, prescription opioids and opioid-related mortality
- VA EDH Data Curation Documentation (FY24-Q2)
- VA EDH Data Curation Documentation (FY24-Q3)
- VA EDH Data Curation Documentation FY24-Q4
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
- Impaired Nociception and Pain Sensation in Mice Lacking the Capsaicin Receptor
- Inflammation Increases the Distribution of Dorsal Horn Neurons That Internalize the Neurokinin-1 Receptor in Response to Noxious and Non-Noxious Stimulation
- Spinal Opioid Analgesia: How Critical Is the Regulation of Substance P Signaling?
- Mu and delta opioid receptor-like immunoreactivity in the cervical spinal cord of the rat after dorsal rhizotomy or neonatal capsaicin: an analysis of pre- and postsynaptic receptor distributions
- Presynaptic regulation of spinal cord tachykinin signaling via GABA B but not GABA A receptor activation
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
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