Pain Innovator Project
Empowering practitioners for impact, influence and income
You became a clinician because you care about patients, and you’re committed to helping them lead healthy lives. You believe everyone deserves to successfully manage their pain.
Practitioners like you are, quite literally, close to the pain. You see what your patients go through and struggle with, day to day.
I had my own practice, and it was going alright. But I also knew there was more to physical therapy and pain care than I learned while earning my degree.
A guided program for practitioners to develop their own approach or clinical protocol
The Pain Innovator Project is a unique THINK TANK dedicated to helping practitioners like you develop clinical interventions that are integrative, scalable and applicable to the real world.
I developed this program because I believe that untapped insight and innovation exists within clinicians who lack access to expert mentors, proven systems, and a pathway to having their ideas be broadly accepted and implemented.
The answers are inside you. And they’re too important to keep tucked away. It’s time to bring them to fruition.
The Pain Innovator Project (PIP) will walk you through a proven, simple, step-by-step plan for making impact and income from what you’ve already learned in your clinical experience. The lessons from your practice are about to become your greatest asset - and your greatest legacy.
PIP will nurture your entrepreneurial, innovative spirit as you fast-track a new idea into a valuable real-world approach.
Led by world-class innovators and leaders in healthcare, it will help you clear systemic obstacles to innovation, develop new approaches to pain care, and generate impactful health outcomes for patients.
Learn how to think outside the box and analyze deeply, so you can creatively solve problems.
Every great invention required a rejection of the “same-old.” We didn’t get cars by trying to make horses faster.
Pain care is a rapidly-changing field, but the old ideas still have a grip on academia—and therefore, new clinicians are graduating with outdated mindsets.
In PIP, you will be empowered to explore your own clinical ideas that can solve real-world problems your patients face. The program’s environment encourages you to take strategic risks in pursuit of growth, rather than perfection. You’ll discover the importance of trusting that your theories are worth pursuing.
Create an efficient and lucrative system to diagnose or treat a specific condition or patient population.
Who do you wish you could help? What protocol have you been dreaming about? Do you know the difference between a good idea and an opportunity? We will help you evaluate the real-world potential for your innovative idea.
Once you are focused, you will clarify the concept into an intervention that you can test and prove.
By the the end of this process you will be ready to launch your approach for individual, group, in-person or online.
Finally, it is time to deliver it to the masses in an accessible format. Your very own revolutionary scientific approach will be able to make a difference for patients, create disruptive change in healthcare, position you as a leader, and help your practice become more profitable.
Rest assured, PIP is nothing like going back to school.
Welcome to the Pain Innovator Project 💡
Creativity Can't Be Forced
Your Elusive Create Genius
Video Replay of 1st PIP Meeting
The Pain Innovator Project will lead you on an exciting journey of revolutionizing pain care, one novel protocol at a time. You will:
Physical Therapist Coordinator for the Empower Veterans Program at the Veterans Health Administration
PIP combines formal training with group support, one-on-one mentorship and guided action on your part.
From start to finish, the program will take three months to complete.
When you enroll, you will gain access to:
An average year in a PhD program ranges from $20,000 for public schools to $60,000 for private schools.
But there’s also an enormous opportunity cost, considering you have to put your career as a practitioner on hold.
In PIP, you never have to stop making money as a clinician, and you can bring your idea from your mind to real-life application in just three months.
Plus, you’ll be able to position yourself as an expert authority and thought leader, bringing you more career opportunities and patients seeking you out.
The enrollment cost in this program is easily worth tens of thousands. But we have made the deliberate choice to keep access to this program accessible and affordable—because we believe in the importance of bringing diverse thinkers to the table, as well as the power of disruptive clinical entrepreneurship.
When I went back to school for my transitional DPT , it was the norm in PT programs to focus on exercise, but I had a strong interest in nutrition and pain.
Instead of following the crowd I set out on my own path to:
You do not need a background in research or statistics to be a good fit for this program. You also don’t need to be a physical therapist. You simply need to be a licensed health professional.
What’s more important than your research chops is your mindset. If any of these apply to you, then you’re a good fit:
If you don't find the answer to your question here, please reach out using the 'support' link at the bottom of this page
No! You simply need to be a practicing, licensed healthcare professional who is willing to try innovation.
No. Any licensed healthcare professional is a good fit, so long as they want to focus on a subspecialty area in pain management, lifestyle medicine, behavioral health, or health promotion.
The first day is January 22, 2022. Please block off the day on your calendar, because we will meet as a group for 5 hours.
Three months, from start to finish. But if you fall behind we will see you through to the finish line.
You’ll have multiple meetings with Kerstin and me, as well as a chance to do some rapid testing, to make sure your idea has an excellent chance of being proven clinically successful. We will work with you to make sure you’re on track, from the get-go.
PIP incorporates both group sessions and one-on-one meetings with each instructor. Plus, you’ll have a chance to present your findings to your cohort and learn about their own research.
Yes, enrollment is limited to 20 participants, so we can ensure everyone receives ample individual attention and support. Plus with a small group, you’ll have a chance to network with your fellow practitioners.
Your investment is $1,997. When you compare that with a year in a graduate degree program—as well as the opportunity cost you’ll earn back since you won’t have to stop your clinical career—we hope you’ll see the immense value in this program.
The Pain Innovator Project is a call-to-action for the licensed healthcare professionals who will develop the next generation of therapeutic interventions.
The proven PIP method of training and mentorship supports you as you cultivate your own ideas, develop a unique and science-backed approach, and then transform them into useful applications across multiple practice settings and specialties.
Envision with us a healthcare system that incorporates improved personalization, quality, equity, outcomes, and efficiency. Be part of that change. And use your innovative approach as a launchpad for your practice and your career.