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Curley L. Bonds, M.D.

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Curley L. Bonds, M.D.

Somatoform Disorders and Pain
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Director, Consultation Evaluation Services
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Dr. Bonds is a full-time faculty member and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is the Director of the Consultation and Evaluation Psychiatry Service for the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital. In this role, he provides assessment and treatment for medical and psychiatric patients at the UCLA Center for Health Sciences. Dr. Bonds is the primary psychiatric consultant to the UCLA Heart Transplant Program and has worked extensively with medical and surgical patients in the UCLA Center for Health Sciences. The UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences has twice recognized him for his teaching contributions with the Outstanding Medical Student Teaching Award in 2000 and again with the Outstanding Housestaff Teaching Award in 2001.

Objectives:

• To be able to explain the differences between the somataform pain disorders and to know the diagnostic features of each illness.
• To understand which biopsychosocial treatment modalities are helpful in treating somataform pain disorders.