Executive Committee

Steering Committee

Robert H. Dworkin, PhD, ACTTION Director; Executive Committee Chair
Dennis C. Turk, PhD, ACTTION Associate Director; Executive Committee Vice-Chair
Shannon M. Smith, PhD, Senior Assistant Director
Robert R. Edwards, PhD, Assistant Director
Jennifer S. Gewandter, PhD, Assistant Director
Michael P. McDermott, PhD, Chief Biostatistician
Allan I. Basbaum, PhD, Director of Preclinical Research
Bethea (Annie) Kleykamp, PhD, Director of Communications
Cornelia Kamp, MBA, Program Director
Omar Mbowe, PhD, Biostatistician
Daniel J. Clauw, MD, Co-Chair representing American College of Rheumatology (ACR)
James C. Eisenach, MD, Co-Chair representing American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
John D. Markman, MD, Co-Chair representing American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
Tuhina Neogi, MD, Co-Chair representing Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI)
Lee S. Simon, MD, Co-Chair representing Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT)
Ajay D. Wasan, MD, Co-Chair representing American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM)
Roy Freeman, MD, Chair, Consortium on Clinical Endpoints and Procedures for Peripheral Neuropathy Trials (CONCEPPT)
Eric C. Strain, MD, Chair, Consortium for Addiction Research on Efficacy and Safety (CARES)
Denham S. Ward, MD, PhD, Chair, Sedation Consortium on Endpoints and Procedures for Treatment, Education, and Research (SCEPTER)
Naomi Lowy, MD, Acting Deputy Director, Division of Anesthesiology, Addiction Medicine, and Pain Medicine, FDA
Allison Lin, PharmD, PhD, Assoc. Director Special Projects, Division of Anesthesiology, Addiction Medicine, and Pain Medicine, FDA

Ralf Baron, MD, German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain liaison and University of Kiel
Stephen Bruehl, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Robert R. Conley, MD, Elli Lilly
Penney Cowan, American Chronic Pain Association
Paul Desjardins, DMD, PhD
Mary DiGiorgi, PhD, Pacira
Scott Evans, PhD, George Washington University
John T. Farrar, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Ian Gilron, MD, International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) liaison and Queen's University
Tony D. Gover, PhD, United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, PhD, University at Buffalo
Sharon Hertz, MD
Smriti Iyengar, PhD, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Barbara I. Karp, MD, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Nathaniel P. Katz, MD, Analgesic Solutions and Tufts University
Robert D. Kerns, PhD, Yale University
Richard Malamut, MD, Collegium
Kushang V. Patel, PhD, University of Washington
Linda Porter, PhD, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Bryce B. Reeve, PhD, Duke University
Andrew S.C. Rice, MD, Imperial College London
Michael C. Rowbotham, MD, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute
Friedhelm Sandbrink, MD, Department of Veterans Affairs
Christin Veasley, Chronic Pain Research Alliance
Kenneth M. Verburg, PhD, Pfizer