Daniel B. Carr, MD, FABPM

Professor Emeritus of Public Health and Community Medicine; ​Program Director and Founder, MS in Pain, Research Education & Policy Program, Tufts University School of Medicine

Past-President, American Academy of Pain Medicine
Founding Editor, IASP’s Pain: Clinical Updates
Co-founding Editor, Pain Trials, Cochrane Reviews

Daniel B. Carr, MD is Professor Emeritus of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, and was Saltonstall Professor of Pain Research in the Departments of Anesthesia and Medicine. He is known internationally for his contributions to pain research, evidence-based pain medicine, and to the social and political aspects of pain relief.

Dr. Carr co-chaired and drafted major portions of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Clinical Practice Guidelines on Acute and Cancer Pain Management. He was the principal technical consultant for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality evidence reports on cancer pain and symptom control; had leadership roles in the formation of comprehensive multidisciplinary pain treatment centers at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Tufts-New England Medical Center, and Caritas-St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center; and co-developed a novel outcomes instrument (“TOPS”) for patients with chronic pain.

In addition, Dr. Carr was the founding editor of the International Association for the Study of Pain’s publication Pain: Clinical Updates, has been lead editor for pain trials in the Cochrane collaborative review group on Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care, and serves on the editorial boards of several pain-related journals. In addition to his work with AHCPR and AHRQ, he has had consultative or advisory board roles for the US Food and Drug Administration, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the American Board of Pain Medicine, the American Pain Society, the International Association for the Study of Pain, the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Pain and Palliative Care Working Group, among others.

Sessions at Neurovations Events

Napa Pain Conference, 2021

• 7th Annual Legacy Lecture: The Socio-Psycho-Biological Model

Napa Pain Conference, 2012

• Evolving Models of Health Care Delivery: Opportunities and Obstacles for Pain Care

Select Publications

• Dworkin, R. H., Turk, D. C., Farrar, J. T., Haythornthwaite, J. A., Jensen, M. P., Katz, N. P., … & Witter, J. (2005). Core outcome measures for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations. Pain, 113(1), 9-19.
• Ballantyne, J. C., Carr, D. B., deFerranti, S., Suarez, T., Lau, J., Chalmers, T. C., … & Mosteller, F. (1998). The comparative effects of postoperative analgesic therapies on pulmonary outcome: cumulative meta-analyses of randomized, controlled trials. Anesthesia & analgesia, 86(3), 598-612.
• Brennan, F., Carr, D. B., & Cousins, M. (2007). Pain management: a fundamental human right. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 105(1), 205-221.
• Carr, D. B., & Goudas, L. C. (1999). Acute pain. The Lancet, 353(9169), 2051-2058.
• Wen, X., Fuhrman, S., Michaels, G. S., Carr, D. B., Smith, S., Barker, J. L., & Somogyi, R. (1998). Large-scale temporal gene expression mapping of central nervous system development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95(1), 334-339.
• Gordon, D. B., Dahl, J. L., Miaskowski, C., McCarberg, B., Todd, K. H., Paice, J. A., … & Carr, D. B. (2005). American pain society recommendations for improving the quality of acute and cancer pain management: American Pain Society Quality of Care Task Force. Archives of internal medicine, 165(14), 1574-1580.
• Cepeda, M. S., Carr, D. B., Lau, J., & Alvarez, H. (2006). Music for pain relief. Cochrane database of systematic reviews, (2).
• White, P. F., Kehlet, H., Neal, J. M., Schricker, T., Carr, D. B., Carli, F., & Fast-Track Surgery Study Group. (2007). The role of the anesthesiologist in fast-track surgery: from multimodal analgesia to perioperative medical care. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 104(6), 1380-1396.
• Eisenberg, E., McNicol, E. D., & Carr, D. B. (2005). Efficacy and safety of opioid agonists in the treatment of neuropathic pain of nonmalignant origin: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. JAMA, 293(24), 3043-3052.
• Ballantyne, J. C., Carr, D. B., Chalmers, T. C., Dear, K. B., Angelillo, I. F., & Mosteller, F. (1993). Postoperative patient-controlled analgesia: meta-analyses of initial randomized control trials. Journal of clinical anesthesia, 5(3), 182-193.
• Ballantyne, J. C., Loach, A. B., & Carr, D. B. (1988). Itching after epidural and spinal opiates. Pain, 33(2), 149-160.
• Cepeda, M. S., Africano, J. M., Polo, R., Alcala, R., & Carr, D. B. (2003). What decline in pain intensity is meaningful to patients with acute pain?. Pain, 105(1-2), 151-157.
• Carr, D. B., Bullen, B. A., Skrinar, G. S., Arnold, M. A., Rosenblatt, M., Beitins, I. Z., … & McArthur, J. W. (1981). Physical conditioning facilitates the exercise-induced secretion of beta-endorphin and beta-lipotropin in women. New England Journal of Medicine, 305(10), 560-563.
• Hudcova, J., McNicol, E. D., Quah, C. S., Lau, J., & Carr, D. B. (2006). Patient controlled opioid analgesia versus conventional opioid analgesia for postoperative pain. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (4).