Scientific Advisory Board

The following individuals serve on our Scientific Advisory Board.

Troels Jensen, MD, is President Elect for the International Association for the Study of Pain, past Chair of the Scandinavian Association for the Study of Pain and Professor of Experimental and Clinical Pain Research, Aarhus University, Denmark. Dr. Jensen received his MD from the University of Aarhus, his residency in Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Neurophysiology at University Hospitals in Aarhus and Copenhagen and his postgraduate clinical fellowship at the Hôpital de la Salpetriere in Paris. He has authored more than 175 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals on experimental and clinical pain, numerous book chapters and he is editor of three books on pain. Dr. Jensen leads the Danish Pain Research Center at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is Section Editor for the journal Pain, serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Pain, The Clinical Journal of Pain and the European Journal of Pain and is a reviewer for over 20 international journals. He has served as Visiting Scientist at the Mayo Clinic and Visiting Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego.

Nathaniel Katz, M.D., M.S. is President of Analgesic Research and former Chair of the FDA Advisory Committee for Anesthetic, Critical Care, and Addiction Products Division. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania and his M.S. in Biostatistics at Columbia University. After his neurology residency at Tufts-New England Medical Center he entered a Pain Management fellowship in the Department of Anesthesia at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and then served as a Staff Neurologist in the Pain Management Center of Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Subsequently, he founded the Pain & Symptom Management Program at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the Pain Trials Center (a clinical analgesics research unit) at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Dr. Katz’s interests include clinical research methods, analgesic clinical trials, opioids for chronic pain, opioids and addiction, neuropathic pain, and cancer pain. He is an internationally recognized expert in pain management and analgesic clinical trials, and he has conducted numerous clinical investigations of treatments for pain, involving pharmaceuticals, non-pharmaceutical analgesics and devices, with a particular focus on opioids and risk management. Dr. Katz is active on many publications and was an Associate Editor at the Clinical Journal of Pain, and Associate Editor (Pain) for the Encyclopedia of Neurological Sciences.

Arthur G. Lipman, PharmD, is a Professor of Pharmacotherapy, College of Pharmacy and Director of Clinical Pharmacology at the Pain Management Center, University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics. Before moving to Utah, Dr. Lipman was Drug Information Director at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center and he held concurrent faculty appointments at the Yale University School of Medicine, Yale University Graduate School of Nursing and University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy. He served on both the Acute and Cancer Pain Management Guideline Panels of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, co-chaired the Arthritis Pain Management Clinical Guidelines Panel of the American Pain Society, and is a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain Acute Pain Taskforce. Dr. Lipman has published over 300 articles, chapters and reviews, and is editor of the Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy.

Cynthia McCormick, MD, is President of McCormick Consultation LLC and the former Director of the FDA’s Division of Anesthetic, Critical Care and Addiction Drug Products (since renamed the Division of Analgesics, Anti-inflammatory and Rheumatology Products). As Head of this Division, Dr. McCormick was responsible for providing scientific and regulatory oversight for a large number of investigational and marketed analgesic products, including opioids and drugs for the treatment of neuropathic pain. She received her medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and then undertook a Residency and Fellowship in Pediatric Neurology at the University of Michigan and a Residency in Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. McCormick has worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, including the FDA and NIH for over 15 years. After serving as Director of the FDA’s Division of Anesthetic, Critical Care and Addiction Drug Products for five years, she served as Deputy Director, Division of Extramural Research, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the NIH. Dr. McCormick has extensive experience in regulatory and clinical aspects of analgesic drug development and consults to a number of pharmaceutical companies.

Richard Payne, MD, is Immediate Past President of the American Pain Society, Professor of Medicine and Director, End of Life Care Institute at Duke University. Prior to assuming his current position, he was Professor of Neurology and Pharmacology at Cornell University Medical College and Chief, Pain & Palliative Care Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr Payne has held various academic appointments, including Chief of Neurology at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center, and Vice-Chairman, Department of Neurology at the University of Cincinnati Medical School and Chief of the Pain and Symptom Management Section and Professor of Neurology at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center. He has served on the Editorial Board of numerous journals including Pain, American Pain Society Journal, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Pain Forum and Journal of Pain. Dr. Payne has published over 100 manuscripts, 50 abstracts, 40 book chapters and two books. He is Chairman of the Task Force on Pain of the American Academy of Neurology and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pain Medicine and the American Pain Society. Dr. Payne has received a Distinguished Service Award from the American Pain Society; the Humanitarian Award from the Urban Resources Institute; and the Janssen Excellence in Pain Award.

Frank Porreca, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Porreca is an internationally recognized analgesic pharmacologist. He is an Associate Editor of the Life Sciences and Pain and he serves on the Editorial Boards of a number of leading journals. For his research efforts, Dr. Porreca has been recognized by a number of organizations including the American Pain Society where he received the F.W. Kerr Award for Basic Science Research in Pain in 2000. In 2000, he was the Sterling Professor of Pharmacology at Albany Medical School and gave the Covino Lecture at Harvard Medical School. He was recently inducted as a Research Fellow by the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences. Dr. Porreca has published over 250 manuscripts, 28 book chapters and hundreds of scientific abstracts. Dr. Porreca is a sought after speaker at both national and international basic and clinical research meetings.

Raymond Sinatra, MD, PhD, is Professor of Anesthesiology at Yale University Medical School. He completed his Anesthesiology residency and Fellowship in Pain Management at Harvard Medical School. He is Senior Editor of the textbook Acute pain: Mechanisms and Management, has authored over 200 scientific papers, review articles, abstracts and textbook chapters on pain management obstetrical anesthesiology and intraoperative anesthesiology. Dr. Sinatra serves as a reviewer for Anesthesia and Analgesia, Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, and The Pain Clinic.

Arthur Weaver, MD, is Past President of the American College of Rheumatology and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Nebraska. Dr. Weaver received his medical degree from Northwestern University and his residency and fellowship in internal medicine and rheumatology from the Mayo Clinic. He has served as an investigator in over 100 clinical trials, published over 150 manuscripts and abstracts in rheumatology and made over 1000 scientific presentations. Dr. Weaver is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Arthritis Foundation Founders Award, the Mayo Clinic Philip Hench award for excellence in rheumatology and the American College of Rheumatology Pauldine Phelps Award. Dr. Weaver is a sought after speaker at both national and international meetings.