Dr. Mark Farris Pirtle is the Associate Director of the Pain Program at Sierra Tucson, one of the world’s leading inpatient behavioral health centers treating individuals and families with addictions, mood and trauma disorders, and chronic pain. Dr. Pirtle’s primary work focuses on multidisciplinary well-being management, which integrates pain science, functional restoration and cognitive behavioral therapy into a mindfulness meditation practice he calls Awareness-Based Sensory Integration (ABSI).

Dr. Pirtle lectures around the world on his clinical platform, inspiring patients and professionals alike through his unique mind-body approach to the treatment of physical, emotional, and spiritual pain. His more than 19 years of clinical experience have culminated in the culminated in authorship of articles on topics ranging from chronic pain to meditation to artificial intelligence and the forthcoming book End of Back Pain as We Know It: The “Effauses” and “Caufects” of Chronic Low Back Pain.

Dr. Pirtle’s serves on the faculty of Dr. Andrew Weil’s Associate Fellowship Program in Integrative Medicine at The University of Arizona. His current work stimulates healing through intentional change processes in mood, trauma, addiction, and chronic pain patients.

Dr. Pirtle resides in Tucson, Arizona.