Primary Job Title Director of the Anesthesiology Clinical Research Center Primary Organization 
University of Rochester
Location Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Robert is Professor of Anesthesiology, Neurology, Oncology, and Psychiatry, Professor of Neurology in the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics, and Director of the Anesthesiology Clinical Research Center at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
He is Director of the Analgesic, Anesthetic, and Addiction Clinical
Trial Translations, Innovations, Opportunities, and Networks (ACTTION), a public-private partnership with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Robert’s current research focuses primarily on examining the relationships between study methodologic features and study outcomes in acute and chronic pain trials, as well as comparing the responsiveness to treatment effects of different primary and secondary outcome measures.
The overall objective of this work, which is being conducted under the auspices of ACTTION, is to improve the efficiency and informativeness of clinical trials of pain treatments and to provide an evidence-based approach to analgesic clinical trial design. He is Co-chair of the Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials (IMMPACT); a member of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Zoster Working Group; and a Special Government Employee of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. He has been a principal investigator for numerous clinical trials of analgesic treatments.
Robert is an Associate Editor of Pain and sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Pain and Current Pain and Headache Reports. Robert received the American Pain Society’s Wilbert E Fordyce Clinical Investigator Award in 2005, the Eastern Pain Association’s John J Bonica Award in 2011, and the American Pain Society’s John and Emma Bonica Public Service Award in 2014.
