Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
John Markman, MD
Vice Chair for Clinical Research
Director, Translational Pain Research Program I Neuromedicine Pain Management Division
Dr. John Markman founded and directs the Translational Pain Research Program in the Department of Neurosurgery and is a Professor at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Markman leads the Department of Neurosurgery's Neuromedicine Pain Management Division, a regional multi-specialty pain practice with a focus on patients with chronic pain associated with nerve injury. His practice and center offerings includes the gamut of medical, interventional, and behavioral therapies for chronic pain. Dr. Markman is an NIH-funded researcher who as has served as Principal Investigator on more than 50 analgesic clinical trials. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and lectures globally on chronic neuropathic pain, chronic low back pain syndromes, and analgesic clinical trial design and interpretation.
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Dr. Markman has served as Chair of the Pain and Palliative Care Section of the American Academy of Neurology and held leadership roles in the American Pain Society and International Association for the Study of Pain. He has served as a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Pain and Pain Medicine and an examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He also served as a special government employee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a member of the Anesthetic and Life Support Drug Advisory Committee. Dr. Markman is board certified in Neurology and has subspecialty board certification in Pain Management. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.?
Dr. Markman trained in Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. His training in Pain Management was completed in the Department of Anesthesiology at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He completed his medical degree at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry where he was awarded the Rudolph Angell Prize, the Robert J. Joynt Prize for Excellence in Clinical Neurology, and a member of AOA.
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