- Pain psychology
Martin Cheatle, PhD
Pain Management
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Pain Medicine Center Tuttleman Center
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Director, Behavioral Medicine - Penn Pain Medicine Center
- Director, Pain and Chemical Dependency Program Center for the Studies of Addcition
- Emeritus Associate Professor CE of Psychology in Psychiatry
My education and training
- Graduate School: Princeton University
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Advanced Practice Provider
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Advanced Practice Provider
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Advanced Practice Provider
Qualifications and experience
- American Board of Medical Psychotherapists (fellow and diplomate), National
- International Association for the Study of Pain (member), International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
White DM, Kimmel PL, Dember LM, Wilkie C, Edwards DP, Williams J, Bernardo L, Quintana N, Cheatle MD, Lash JP, Fischer MJ, Schmidt R, Doorenbos A, Schrauben S, Johansen KL; HOPE Consortium, a member of the HEAL Initiative. Patient Engagement in the Design and Conduct of the HOPE Trial: Addressing Chronic Pain in Hemodialysis Patients. , Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2025 Oct 1;20(10):: 2025,1461-1469.
Lee Y, Giordano NA, Compton PA, Tang NKY, Polomano RC, Cheatle MD. Correlates of mental defeat in individuals with chronic non-cancer pain on long-term opioid therapy. , Pain Med. : 2025,576-582.
Candon M, Dusek JA, Nielsen A, Cheatle M, Werner RM, Mandell D. Cost Sharing for Acupuncture Therapy in Commercial Insurance Plans. Glob Adv , Integr Med Health. : 2025
Candon M, Sutherland T, Spataro Solorzano S, Mandell DS, Cheatle M. Trends in Pain Care for Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain Between 2012 and 2021. , J Gen Intern Med. : 2025
Dember LM, Hsu JY, Mehrotra R, Cavanaugh KL, Kalim S, Charytan DM, Fischer MJ, Jhamb M, Johansen KL, Becker WC, Pellegrino B, Eneanya ND, Schrauben SJ, Pun PH, Unruh ML, Morasco BJ, Mehta M, Miyawaki N, Penfield J, Bernardo L, Brintz CE, Cheatle MD, Doorenbos AZ, Heapy AA, Keefe FJ, Krebs EE, Kuzla N, Nigwekar SU, Schmidt RJ, Steel JL, Wetmore JB, White DM, Kimmel PL, Cukor D; HOPE Consortium. Pain Coping Skills Training for Patients Receiving Hemodialysis: The HOPE Consortium Randomized Clinical Trial. , JAMA Intern Med, 5(185): 2025,609
Steel JL, Brintz CE, Heapy AA, Keefe F, Cheatle MD, Jhamb M, McNeil DW, Shallcross AJ, Kimmel PL, Dember LM, White DM, Williams J, Cukor D. Adapting a pain coping skills training intervention for people with chronic pain receiving maintenance hemodialysis for end stage Kidney disease. , J Behav Med. : 2025,298-307.
Themelis K, Gillett JL, Karadag P, Cheatle MD, Ilgen MA, Balasubramanian S, Singh SP, Tang NKY. Mental Defeat Predicts Increased Suicide Risk in Chronic Pain: A 12-Month Prospective Study. , Eur J Pain. : 2025
Candon M, Nielsen A, Dusek JA, Spataro Solorzano S, Cheatle M, Neuman MD, Samitt C, Shen S, Werner RM, Mandell D. Utilization of Reimbursed Acupuncture Therapy for Low Back Pain. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Aug 1;7(8):e2430906. , JAMA Network Open, 7(8): 2024
Toikumo S, Vickers-Smith R, Jinwala Z, Xu H, Saini D, Hartwell E, Venegas MP, Sullivan KA, Xu K, Jacobson DA, Gelernter J, Rentsch CT; Million Veteran Program; Stahl E, Cheatle M, Zhou H, Waxman SG, Justice AC, Kember RL, Kranzler HR. The genetic architecture of pain intensity in a sample of 598,339 U.S. veterans. Nat Med. 2024 Apr;30(4):1075-1084. , Nature Medicine , 30(4): 2024
Meghani SH, Quinn R, Robinson A, Chittams J, Vapiwala N, Naylor M, Cheatle M, Knafl GJ. Trajectories and predictors of high-occurrence pain flares in ambulatory cancer patients on opioids. , JNCI Caner Spectrum, 8(1): 2024