Muscular Contributions to Pain Syndromes: Overlooked and Under-treated

Dr. Norman Marcus, MD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry and Director of Muscle Pain Research at New York University School of Medicine, as well as Director of the Norman Marcus Pain Institute in NYC. In 1977, he founded and directed the first pain center in NYC at Montefiore Hospital, with Dr Edith Kepes, MD. He went on to establish and direct pain centers at Lenox Hill Hospital in NYC from 1983 to 1998 and The Princess Margaret Hospital in Windsor, UK, from 1997 to 2001.

A member of nine professional societies, Dr. Marcus has presented more than 100 lectures about pain management and diagnoses to audiences throughout the world. A past President of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), currently AAPM liaison to the AMA Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement, and past Vice-President of the American Board of Pain Medicine, Dr. Marcus initiated the AAPM effort to establish uniform outcome assessments for pain treatment interventions.

Dr. Marcus was the co-inventor, with Stevens Institute of Technology, of the Muscle Pain Detection Device (MPDD) for the identification of painful muscles. He is author of Freedom from Pain in 1994 and No More Back Pain to be released in 2012, both published by Simon and Schuster. His major research interests are muscle pain evaluation and treatment and developing physical examination protocols for pain patients.