Caroline A Arout

Dr. Arout is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry) and a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute of Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Her interests continue to focus on the intersection of pain and substance use, emphasized by three main lines of human laboratory research: 1) the potential therapeutic utility of cannabinoids, in isolation or in combination with opioids, for pain in the context of abuse liability; 2) the study of medications to treat cannabis use disorder; 3) the identification of biomarkers that can be used to objectify pain and substance use disorder-related outcomes in clinical treatment. Her overarching goal is to identify a more effective, less abuse-prone pharmacological treatment regime for chronic pain.