Description of Research Expertise:
Research related to pain including the use of new pain medications, brain function in people with pain, complementary and alternative therapies, and new methodologies for understanding how patients report their pain in clinical trials. Current research includes ongoing studies of acupuncture for the treatment of pain in osteo-arthritis patients and chronic fatigue in cancer patients, brain imaging of patients with pain, and studies of cancer treatment related pain.
Selected Publications:
Massey SL, Shou H, Clancy R, DiGiovine M, Fitzgerald MP, Fung FW, Farrar JT, Abend NS: Interrater and Intrarater Agreement in Neonatal Electroencephalogram Background Scoring. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology : 2018.
Bao T, Seidman A, Li Q, Seluzicki C, Blinder V, Meghani SH, Farrar JT, Mao JJ: Living with chronic pain: perceptions of breast cancer survivors. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 169 (1): 2018.
Robson JC, Dawson J, Cronholm PF, Milman N, Kellom KS, Ashdown S, Easley E, Farrar JT, Gebhart D, Lanier G, McAlear CA, Peck J, Luqmani RA, Shea JA, Tomasson G, Merkel PA: Health-related quality of life in ANCA-associated vasculitis and item generation for a disease-specific patient-reported outcome measure. Patient Related Outcome Measures 9 : 17-34,2018.
Giuffrida MA, Farrar JT, Brown DC.: Psychometric properties of the Canine Symptom Assessment Scale, a multidimensional owner-reported questionnaire instrument for assessment of physical symptoms in dogs with solid tumors. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 251 (12): 1405-1414,2017.
DiBonaventura MD, Sadosky A, Concialdi K, Hopps M, Kudel I, Parsons B, Cappelleri JC, Hlavacek P, Alexander AH, Stacey BR, Markman JD, Farrar JT: The prevalence of probable neuropathic pain in the US: results from a multimodal general-population health survey. Journal of Pain Research 10 (2525-2538): 2017.
Robson JC, Tomasson G, Milman N, Ashdown S, Boonen A, Casey GC, Cronholm PF, Cuthbertson D, Dawson J, Direskeneli H, Easley E, Kermani TA, Farrar JT, Gebhart D, Lanier G, Luqmani RA, Mahr A, McAlear CA, Peck J, Shea B, Shea JA, Sreih AG, Tugwell PS, Merkel PA: OMERACT Endorsement of Patient-reported Outcome Instruments in Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-associated Vasculitis. The Journal of Rheumatology 44 (10): 2017.
Wang S, Giannakopoulos H, Lowstetter J, Kaye L, Lee C, Secreto S, Ho V, Hutcheson MC, Farrar JT, Wang P, Doyle G, Cooper SA, Hersh EV: Lack of Methemoglobin Elevations After Topical Applications of Benzocaine Alone or Benzocaine Plus Tetracaine to the Oral Mucosa. Clinical Therapeutics 39 (10): 2103-210,2017.
Roy CN, Snyder PJ, Stephens-Shields AJ, Artz AS, Bhasin S, Cohen HJ, Farrar JT, Gill TM, Zeldow B, Cella D, Barrett-Connor E, Cauley JA, Crandall JP, Cunningham GR, Ensrud KE, Lewis CE, Matsumoto AM, Molitch ME, Pahor M, Swerdloff RS, Cifelli D, Hou X, Resnick SM, Walston JD, Anton S, Basaria S, Diem SJ, Wang C, Schrier SL, Ellenberg SS: Association of Testosterone Levels With Anemia in Older Men: A Controlled Clinical Trial. JAMA Internal Medicine 177 (7): 480-490,2017.
Lee I, Garland SN, DeMichele A, Farrar JT, Im EO, Mao JJ: A cross-sectional survey of pain catastrophising and acupuncture use among breast cancer survivors. Acupuncture in Medicine 35 (1): 38-43,2017.
Lai HH, Jemielita T, Sutcliffe S, Bradley CS, Naliboff B, Williams DA, Gereau RW 4th, Kreder K, Clemens JQ, Rodriguez LV, Krieger JN, Farrar JT, Robinson N, Landis JR; MAPP Research Network: Characterization of Whole Body Pain in Urological Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome at Baseline: A MAPP Research Network Study. The Journal of Urology : 2017.