I couldn’t be happier to share that I’ve won the John Renner Travel Award from the @AAAP1985!! Thank you so much to @AAAP1985 for the opportunity, and to my mentor Joao P. De Aquino, M.D. for supporting my application!

Congratulations to Gabriel P. A. Costa, M.D. on winning the AAAP John Renner Travel Award from 🇧🇷 ! 🎉 Your hard work and dedication have paid off. Keep up the great work! @AAAP1985 #ProudMentor

Glad to collaborate on this important discussion about #cannabis policies in the context of the #opioid crisis. Check out our piece in Scientific American

Opioid use disorder treatment needs to take into account evolving cannabis policies, to help give people the best chances of recovery | Opinion trib.al/WyQgK53

Glass Health is thrilled to announce Gabriel P. A. Costa, M.D. as the winner of Glass Health's Future of Medicine essay contest with his piece, “AI and the Future of Medicine: A Vision of Personalized, Equitable Healthcare.” 🎉

📢 Excited to share our latest paper in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine! In our systematic review and meta-analysis, #buprenorphine outperformed full agonist #opioids for acute #postoperative #pain: ✅ Superior pain relief ✅ Less rescue #analgesia needed ✅

Excited to share the infographic published alongside our recent paper in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine. 🎉 Congrats to Tom Hickey, Gabriel P. A. Costa, M.D., and Victor Avila-Quintero, MD 🇪🇨 for the fantastic work exploring #buprenorphine for acute postoperative #pain management. 👏 rapm.bmj.com/content/early/…

Excited to share our new paper in @DrugAlcoholDep! We show a bidirectional link between #pain and daily #smoking: Pain doubles the risk of initiating smoking, and smoking doubles the risk of persistent pain. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 👏 Congrats to Gabriel P. A. Costa, M.D., Julio Nunes,

📢 Just published! For many patients, pain and smoking are two sides of the same coin. Thank you @DrugAlcoholDep for sharing our findings. Thank you Joao P. De Aquino, M.D. Gabriel P. A. Costa, M.D. for the team work. And Yale Psychiatry for your support!

New #yalepsych research!

Congratulations to, from left, Drs. Julio Nunes, Gabriel P.A. Costa, and Tiago Paiva Prudente of #yalepsych for being named recipients of 2025 College on Problems of Drug Dependence Travel Awards for Early Career Investigators. bit.ly/4cj5gIO

🎉 Congratulations to mentees Julio Nunes and Gabriel P. A. Costa, M.D. from the PAIN Lab and Yale Psychiatry on receiving 2025 The College on Problems of Drug Dependence Travel Awards for Early Career Investigators! Well-deserved recognition for their exciting work. 👏 👉 bit.ly/4cj5gIO #CPDD2025

Couldn’t be happier to see this so well deserved! Joao P. De Aquino, M.D. has been an incredible mentor and role model. Truly grateful to learn from you every day!

🚨Hot off the press!🚨Pain, addiction, and metabolic dysfunction are intertwined, even though they’re often treated separately. Our new work in Alcohol Research quantifies how heavy #alcohol drinking (+34%) and #obesity (+50%) additively worsen #pain, while each extra hour of

Our latest work explores the link between childhood trauma, substance use, and pain. Glad to see it published in ASAM and contributing to ongoing efforts in trauma-informed care.

Grateful to have contributed to this work with Eric L. Garland and @JPDeAquino examining how emotion regulation impacts cannabis use in the context of pain. Proud to be part of the team!

Thank you Yale Psychiatry for the endless support! It takes a village and I would not have gotten so far without all the mentorship. Special thanks to Joao P. De Aquino, M.D., Ellen Edens, and Dolores Vojvoda; thank you for everything!

Speaking tomorrow at Columbia University GLASS series on "Thriving Under Pressure: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome". Imposter feelings aren’t just “in our heads, they’re reinforced by systems. The key is amplifying our champions and the doors we’ve opened, not just the walls we hit.

Thrilled to share our new paper in Pain Medicine Journal on quantitative sensory testing (#QST) among people with #opioid use disorder. Proud of Yale Psychiatry PAIN Lab postdoc Gabriel P. A. Costa, M.D. and alumna Debora Oliveira! 👏 shorturl.at/2F1UE

Grateful to have contributed to this review highlighting shared mechanisms between tobacco use disorder and chronic pain, and the need for mechanism-targeted, integrative trials.