Erin E. Krebs, MD, MPH
Erin E. Krebs, MD, MPH
Roudebush VAMC
Indianapolis, IN
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Dr. Erin E. Krebs is a General Internist, Physician Scientist at the Roudebush VAMC Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) Center of Excellence in Implementing Evidence-Based Practice (CIEBP) and Regenstrief Institute, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Indiana University. Along with Center colleagues, Dr. Krebs has been at the forefront of research in chronic pain management in the primary care setting and overlap syndromes, especially pain and PTSD. This work is funded by a VA Research Career Development Award focused on "Improving the Quality and Safety of Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care". Dr. Krebs also received DoD funding in 2008 for a study focusing on PTSD/pain comorbidity in veterans. She is also working with VACO’s Center for Medication Safety on a Substance Use Disorder QUERI-funded project to evaluate mortality rates among veterans prescribed methadone and other long-acting opiods. Drs. Kroenke, Bair and Krebs were also recipients of an IUPUI a signature research center (The Indiana University Center for Assessment, Mechanisms, and Management of Pain (IU CAMMP) which is a partnership with the Center of Excellence designed to enhance pain research, and to promote collaboration among researchers across several IUPUI schools and existing centers to stimulate new approaches to address pain.
Dr. Krebs completed her fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also earned her MPH in Health Care & Prevention. She is committed to strengthening the evidence-based standard of care for pain management and to developing and testing practical, cost-effective pain management tools for primary care. Dr. Krebs’ related research interests include mental health conditions that are commonly comorbid with chronic pain, pain measurement, and women’s health. She is a Staff Physician in the IU Center of Excellence in Women’s Health and Roudebush VA primary care clinics. Dr. Krebs completed Internal Medicine residency training at the University of Minnesota and served as Chief Resident at the Minneapolis VAMC.