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Robert H. Dworkin is a researcher affiliated with the University of Rochester Medical Center in the United States. Their academic focus is primarily within the field of Medicine, with particular emphasis on Pharmacology, Physiology, Economics and Econometrics, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.

The scientist's research portfolio encompasses a diverse range of topics related to pain, including musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, pain mechanisms and treatments, health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, pain management and placebo effect, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, psychedelics and drug studies, and botulinum toxin and related neurological disorders.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • PAIN Reports
  • Neurology
  • Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Notable recent papers by Robert H. Dworkin include:

  • The Prevalence of Psychiatric and Chronic Pain Comorbidities in Fibromyalgia: an ACTTION systematic review (2020, Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism)
  • Interpretation of chronic pain clinical trial outcomes: IMMPACT recommended considerations (2020, Pain)
  • Convergent neural representations of experimentally-induced acute pain in healthy volunteers: A large-scale fMRI meta-analysis (2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • Idiopathic distal sensory polyneuropathy (2020, Neurology)
  • Optimizing and Accelerating the Development of Precision Pain Treatments for Chronic Pain: IMMPACT Review and Recommendations (2022, Journal of Pain)

Robert H. Dworkin collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Dennis C. Turk, Jennifer S. Gewandter, Robert R. Edwards, Roy Freeman, and John D. Markman. These collaborators have worked alongside Dworkin on a significant number of publications, contributing to multidisciplinary perspectives within pain research.

Best Publications

  • Topical Review and RecommendationsCore outcome measures for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations

    Robert H. Dworkin;Dennis C. Turk;John T. Farrar;Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite

  • Pharmacotherapy for neuropathic pain in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Nanna B Finnerup;Nadine Attal;Simon Haroutounian;Ewan McNicol

  • Core outcome domains for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations.

    Dennis C Turk;Robert H Dworkin;Robert R Allen;Nicholas Bellamy

  • Interpreting the Clinical Importance of Treatment Outcomes in Chronic Pain Clinical Trials: IMMPACT Recommendations

    Robert H. Dworkin;Dennis C. Turk;Kathleen W. Wyrwich;Dorcas Beaton

  • Pharmacologic management of neuropathic pain: evidence-based recommendations.

    Robert H. Dworkin;Alec B. O'Connor;Miroslav Backonja;John T. Farrar

  • Advances in Neuropathic Pain: Diagnosis, Mechanisms, and Treatment Recommendations

    Robert H. Dworkin;Miroslav Backonja;Michael C. Rowbotham;Robert R. Allen

  • Recommendations for the Pharmacological Management of Neuropathic Pain: An Overview and Literature Update

    Robert H. Dworkin;Alec B. O'Connor;Joseph Audette;Ralf Baron

  • The Prevalence of Chronic Pain in United States Adults: Results of an Internet-Based Survey

    Catherine B. Johannes;T. Kim Le;Xiaolei Zhou;Joseph A. Johnston

  • Prevention and Management of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Survivors of Adult Cancers: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline

    Dawn L. Hershman;Christina Lacchetti;Robert H. Dworkin;Ellen M. Lavoie Smith

  • Recommendations for the management of herpes zoster.

    Robert H. Dworkin;Robert W. Johnson;Judith Breuer;John W. Gnann;John W. Gnann

  • Pregabalin for the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia A randomized, placebo-controlled trial

    R.H. Dworkin;A.E. Corbin;J.P. Young;U. Sharma

  • Treatment of Neuropathic Pain: An Overview of Recent Guidelines

    Alec B. O'Connor;Robert H. Dworkin

  • Core outcome domains and measures for pediatric acute and chronic/recurrent pain clinical trials: PedIMMPACT recommendations

    Patrick J. McGrath;Gary A. Walco;Dennis C. Turk;Robert H. Dworkin

  • Pregabalin for the treatment of fibromyalgia syndrome: results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

    Leslie J. Crofford;Michael C. Rowbotham;Philip J. Mease;I. Jon Russell

  • Development and initial validation of an expanded and revised version of the Short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ-2)

    Robert H. Dworkin;Dennis C. Turk;Dennis A. Revicki;Gale Harding

  • The Role of Psychosocial Processes in the Development and Maintenance of Chronic Pain.

    Robert R. Edwards;Robert H. Dworkin;Mark D. Sullivan;Dennis C. Turk

  • An interdisciplinary expert consensus statement on assessment of pain in older persons

    Thomas Hadjistavropoulos;Keela Herr;Dennis C. Turk;Perry G. Fine

  • The impact of neuropathic pain on health-related quality of life: Review and implications

    Mark P. Jensen;Marci J. Chodroff;Robert H. Dworkin

  • Pharmacotherapy for Neuropathic Pain in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    N.B. Finnerup;N. Attal;S. Haroutounian

  • Advances in neuropathic pain: Diagnosis, mechanisms, and treatment recommendations. Editorial

    Robert H. Dworkin;Miroslav Backonja;Michael C. Rowbotham;Robert R. Allen

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis C. Turk
Dennis C. Turk University of Washington
Michael P. McDermott
Michael P. McDermott University of Rochester
John T. Farrar
John T. Farrar University of Pennsylvania
Srinivasa N. Raja
Srinivasa N. Raja Johns Hopkins University
Andrew S.C. Rice
Andrew S.C. Rice Imperial College London
Robert R. Edwards
Robert R. Edwards Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mark P. Jensen
Mark P. Jensen University of Washington
Robert D. Kerns
Robert D. Kerns Yale University
Kenneth E. Schmader
Kenneth E. Schmader Duke University
Roy Freeman
Roy Freeman Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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