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Overview

Roger B. Fillingim is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States, with a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine. Their extensive body of work includes significant contributions to subfields such as Pharmacology, Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main research topics covered by Fillingim include:

  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques

Frequent publication venues for Fillingim include:

  • Journal of Pain (61 publications)
  • UNC Libraries (38 publications)
  • Innovation in Aging (17 publications)
  • Pain (13 publications)
  • PAIN Reports (10 publications)

Coauthorship collaborations are a considerable part of Fillingim's research career. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Yenisel Cruz-Almeida (60 joint publications)
  • Richard Ohrbach (54 joint publications)
  • Burel R. Goodin (54 joint publications)
  • Kimberly T. Sibille (50 joint publications)
  • Roland Staud (48 joint publications)

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Roger B. Fillingim include:

  • Associations of Psychologic Factors with Multiple Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions, 2020, Journal of Oral & Facial Pain and Headache
  • The Prevalence of Psychiatric and Chronic Pain Comorbidities in Fibromyalgia: an ACTTION systematic review, 2020, Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
  • Patient and Procedural Determinants of Postoperative Pain Trajectories, 2021, Anesthesiology
  • The prevalence of comorbid chronic pain conditions among patients with temporomandibular disorders, 2021, The Journal of the American Dental Association
  • Beyond Black vs White: racial/ethnic disparities in chronic pain including Hispanic, Asian, Native American, and multiracial US adults, 2022, Pain

Fillingim has also contributed to book publications, including a chapter titled Sex, gender, and pain in Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine (2023).

Best Publications

  • Sex, Gender, and Pain: A Review of Recent Clinical and Experimental Findings

    Roger B. Fillingim;Christopher D. King;Margarete C. Ribeiro-Dasilva;Bridgett Rahim-Williams

  • Sex Differences in Pain: A Brief Review of Clinical and Experimental Findings

    E. J. Bartley;R. B. Fillingim

  • The Unequal Burden of Pain: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pain

    Carmen R. Green;Karen O. Anderson;Tamara A. Baker;Lisa C. Campbell

  • Sex differences in the perception of noxious experimental stimuli: a meta-analysis.

    Joseph L Riley;Michael E Robinson;Emily A Wise;Cynthia D Myers

  • Studying sex and gender differences in pain and analgesia: a consensus report

    Joel D. Greenspan;Rebecca M. Craft;Linda LeResche;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

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

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

  • Sex-related hormonal influences on pain and analgesic responses

    R.B. Fillingim;T.J. Ness

  • Painful Temporomandibular Disorder Decade of Discovery from OPPERA Studies

    G.D. Slade;R. Ohrbach;J.D. Greenspan;R.B. Fillingim

  • Gender differences in the responses to noxious stimuli

    Roger B. Fillingim;William Maixner

  • Sex, gender, and pain: women and men really are different.

    Roger B. Fillingim

  • GTP cyclohydrolase and tetrahydrobiopterin regulate pain sensitivity and persistence

    Irmgard Tegeder;Michael Costigan;Robert S Griffin;Andrea Abele

  • Race, ethnicity and pain

    Christopher L Edwards;Roger B Fillingim;Francis Keefe

  • A Meta-Analytic Review of the Hypoalgesic Effects of Exercise

    Kelly M. Naugle;Roger B. Fillingim;Joseph L. Riley

  • The melanocortin-1 receptor gene mediates female-specific mechanisms of analgesia in mice and humans

    Jeffrey S. Mogil;Sonya G. Wilson;Elissa J. Chesler;Andrew L. Rankin

  • Psychological Factors Associated With Development of TMD: The OPPERA Prospective Cohort Study

    Roger B. Fillingim;Richard Ohrbach;Joel D. Greenspan;Charles Knott

  • Recommendations on terminology and practice of psychophysical DNIC testing.

    David Yarnitsky;David Yarnitsky;Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Didier Bouhassira;Robert R. Edwards

  • Individual differences in pain: understanding the mosaic that makes pain personal.

    Roger B. Fillingim

  • Gender role expectations of pain: Relationship to sex differences in pain

    Michael E. Robinson;Joseph L. Riley;Cynthia D. Myers;Rebecca K. Papas

  • Idiopathic pain disorders--pathways of vulnerability.

    Luda Diatchenko;Andrea G. Nackley;Gary D. Slade;Roger B. Fillingim

  • Consensus report Studying sex and gender differences in pain and analgesia: A consensus report

    Joel D. Greenspan;Rebecca M. Craft;Linda LeResche;Lars Arendt-Nielsen

Frequent Co-Authors

William Maixner
William Maixner Duke University
Roland Staud
Roland Staud University of Florida
Gary D. Slade
Gary D. Slade University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joel D. Greenspan
Joel D. Greenspan University of Maryland, Baltimore
Yenisel Cruz-Almeida
Yenisel Cruz-Almeida University of Florida
Steven Z. George
Steven Z. George Duke University
Laurence A. Bradley
Laurence A. Bradley University of Alabama at Birmingham
Luda Diatchenko
Luda Diatchenko McGill University
Margaret R. Wallace
Margaret R. Wallace University of Florida
Robert R. Edwards
Robert R. Edwards Brigham and Women's Hospital

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