Dr. John Markman directs the Translational Pain Research Program in the Department of Neurosurgery and is an Associate Professor at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Markman leads the Department of Neurosurgery's Neuromedicine Pain Management Center, a multi-specialty pain practice with a focus on patients with chronic pain associated with nerve injury. His practice and center offerings includes the gamut of medical, interventional, and behavioral therapies for chronic pain. His clinical research on chronic pain and low back pain have recently appeared in Journal of Pain, Pain, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Rheumatology, Neurology, Anesthesiology Clinics of North America, Medical Clinics of North America, and Geriatric Clinics of North America in addition to numerous book chapters and non peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Markman is Chairman-elect of the Pain and Palliative Care Section of the American Academy of Neurology, the guest editor of the recent Continuum Edition of Neuropathic Pain, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Pain and an examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He also serves as a special government employee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a member of the Anesthetic and LIfe Support Drug Advisory Committee. He lectures internationally and nationally on lumbar stenosis, chronic low back pain, opioid therapy, and neuropathic pain. Dr. Markman is board certified in Neuroolgy and has subspecialty board certification in Pain Management. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.
Dr. Markman trained in Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. His training in Pain Management was completed in the Department of Anesthesiology at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He completed his medical degree at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry where he was awared the Rudolph Angell Prize, the Robert J. Joynt Prize for Excellence in Clinical Neurology, and a member of AOA.

• Takano T, Chen X, Luo F, Fujita T, Ren Z, Goldman N, Zhao Y, Markman JD, Nedergaard M. Traditional acupuncture triggers a local increase in adenosine in human subjects. J Pain. 2012 Dec; 13(12):1215-23.
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• Turk DC, O'Connor AB, Dworkin RH, Chaudhry A, Katz NP, Adams EH, Brownstein JS, Comer SD, Dart R, Dasgupta N, Denisco RA, Klein M, Leiderman DB, Lubran R, Rappaport BA, Zacny JP, Ahdieh H, Burke LB, Cowan P, Jacobs P, Malamut R, Markman J, Michna E, Palmer P, Peirce-Sandner S, Potter JS, Raja SN, Rauschkolb C, Roland CL, Webster LR, Weiss RD, Wolf K. Research design considerations for clinical studies of abuse-deterrent opioid analgesics: IMMPACT recommendations. Pain. 2012 Oct; 153(10):1997-2008.
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• Dworkin RH, Turk DC, Peirce-Sandner S, Burke LB, Farrar JT, Gilron I, Jensen MP, Katz NP, Raja SN, Rappaport BA, Rowbotham MC, Backonja MM, Baron R, Bellamy N, Bhagwagar Z, Costello A, Cowan P, Fang WC, Hertz S, Jay GW, Junor R, Kerns RD, Kerwin R, Kopecky EA, Lissin D, Malamut R, Markman JD, McDermott MP, Munera C, Porter L, Rauschkolb C, Rice AS, Sampaio C, Skljarevski V, Sommerville K, Stacey BR, Steigerwald I, Tobias J, Trentacosti AM, Wasan AD, Wells GA, Williams J, Witter J, Ziegler D. Considerations for improving assay sensitivity in chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations. Pain. 2012 Jun; 153(6):1148-58.
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• Dworkin RH, Turk DC, Basch E, Berger A, Cleeland C, Farrar JT, Haythornthwaite JA, Jensen MP, Kerns RD, Markman J, Porter L, Raja SN, Ross E, Todd K, Wallace M, Woolf CJ. Considerations for extrapolating evidence of acute and chronic pain analgesic efficacy. Pain. 2011 Aug; 152(8):1705-8.
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• Markman JD. Bundle up: it's painful out there--the case for opioid-acetaminophen combinations. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2010 Sep; 88(3):292-4.
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• Markman JD, Gaud KG. Lumbar spinal stenosis in older adults: current understanding and future directions. Clin Geriatr Med. 2008 May; 24(2):369-88, viii.
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• Markman JD. Not so fast: the reformulation of fentanyl and breakthrough chronic non-cancer pain. Pain. 2008 Jun; 136(3):227-9.
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• Markman JD, Philip A. Interventional approaches to pain management. Anesthesiol Clin. 2007 Dec; 25(4):883-98, viii.
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• O'Connor AB, Schwid SR, Herrmann DN, Markman JD, Dworkin RH. Pain associated with multiple sclerosis: systematic review and proposed classification. Pain. 2008 Jul; 137(1):96-111.
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• Simon LS, Evans C, Katz N, Bombardier C, West C, Robbins J, Copley-Merriman C, Markman J, Coombs JH. Preliminary development of a responder index for chronic low back pain. J Rheumatol. 2007 Jun; 34(6):1386-91.
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• Markman JD, Philip A. Interventional approaches to pain management. Med Clin North Am. 2007 Mar; 91(2):271-86.
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• Markman JD. Gabapentin in the operating room: clear for discharge? Neurology. 2006 Oct 10; 67(7):1116-7.
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• Markman JD, Dworkin RH. Ion channel targets and treatment efficacy in neuropathic pain. J Pain. 2006 Jan; 7(1 Suppl 1):S38-47.
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• Kerrigan DC, Lee LW, Nieto TJ, Markman JD, Collins JJ, Riley PO. Kinetic alterations independent of walking speed in elderly fallers. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2000 Jun; 81(6):730-5.
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• Ackers ML, Schoenfeld S, Markman J, Smith MG, Nicholson MA, DeWitt W, Cameron DN, Griffin PM, Slutsker L. An outbreak of Yersinia enterocolitica O:8 infections associated with pasteurized milk. J Infect Dis. 2000 May; 181(5):1834-7.
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