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Living Well Center provides health care rather than sick care

Focus on lifestyle factors addresses chronic pain, surgery preparation, overall health

by Jim DrydenDecember 1, 2022

Devyani M. Hunt, MD, a professor of orthopedic surgery and medical director of the Living Well Center, talks with patient Zach Wood about pain issues. A computer monitor on the desk beside Dr. Hunt displays a spinal scan.Matt Miller

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Jim covers psychiatry and neuroscience, pain and opioid research, orthopedics, diabetes, obesity, nutrition and aging. He formerly worked at KWMU (now St. Louis Public Radio) as a reporter and anchor, and his stories from the Midwest also were broadcast on NPR. He hosts the Show Me the Science podcast, which highlights the outstanding research, education and clinical care underway at the School of Medicine. Jim has a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He joined Medical Public Affairs in 1992.