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Dr.
Russell K. Portenoy is Chairman, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative
Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, and Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein
College of Medicine. He is past president of the American Pain Society, current
Secretary of the International Association for the Study of Pain, and Editor-in-Chief
of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. He has been an active clinical
investigator in the field of opioid pharmacology and pain epidemiology, and
has published numerous didactic works related to the use of opioids in nonmalignant
pain and the interface between pain and chemical dependency. He is author
or editor of 12 books and more than 350 papers devoted to the field of pain
management.
Dr. Portneoy received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore in 1980. He completed his residency in Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1984 and later completed a fellowship in Pain and Neuro-Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
