Current Postdoctoral Fellows
First Year Fellows
Claudia Campbell
Claudia Campbell, PhD, received her Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees in Clinical
Psychology from the University of Florida. She completed her internship training
at the University of California, San Diego/Veteran’s Affairs consortium. Dr. Campbell’s
dissertation was titled “Ethnic Differences in Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Controls
(DNIC) and focused on the pain inhibitory capacity of healthy African American and
non-Hispanic White individuals using the Nociceptive Flexion Reflex (NFR) and an
ischemic arm pain task. Results of this research suggest potential differences in
endogenous pain inhibition between African Americans and whites.
Dr. Campbell’s primary research interests are in individual differences in clinical
and experimental pain perception, psychological variables contributing to the pain
experience and mechanisms underlying these variables. She is also interested in
health disparities and factors affecting pain treatment. During her post-doctoral
fellowship in Biobehavioral Pain Research, Dr. Campbell would like to develop expertise
in these areas and build a foundation for future research into individual differences,
biopsychosocial contributors to the pain experience and mechanisms underlying pain
processing. Dr. Campbell is being co-mentored by Drs. Edwards and Haythornthwaite,
Clinical Psychologists in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and
Dr. Raja, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Director of Pain
Research in the Division of Pain Medicine.
Publications:
Campbell, C.M., France, C.R., Robinson, M.E., Logan, H.L., Geffken,
G.R., Fillingim, R.B. Ethnic differences in the nociceptive flexion reflex (NFR).
Pain (in press).
Campbell, C.M., Edwards, R.R., Fillingim, R.B. (2005) Ethnic differences
in responses to multiple experimental pain stimuli. Pain, 113, 20-26.
Robert W. Hurley
Robert W. Hurley, MD/PhD completed his Bachelor of Arts in Neuropsychology from
McGill University, Montreal Canada. He received his Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD)
in Neuroscience and his Doctorate of Medicine (MD) from the University of Chicago
where he was elected to the medical honor society, Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) and graduated
with Honors. Dr. Hurley completed his internship at the Mac Neal Hospital-University
of Chicago and his Anesthesiology residency at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
He completed his fellowship in Pain Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
Dr. Hurley is an associate editor of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (RAPM)
and a guest editorial board member for Anesthesia and Analgesia (A&A). He is
a frequent reviewer of publications Pain and Anesthesiology among other publications.
He has served on the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Research.
Dr. Hurley has been involved in research on the topic of pain for over 10 years
and has published more than 20 articles, reviews and book chapters on a wide range
of topics involving pain conditions and their treatment. He has been a presenter
at several national and international meetings and won several research awards.
Dr. Hurley is a member of the American Pain Society, International Association for
the Study of Pain, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Society for Neuroscience,
International Anesthesia Research Society, and American Society of Regional Anesthesia.
His clinical interests involve interventional management of acute and chronic pain
management especially post-thoracotomy pain, post-mastectomy pain, chest pain (angina
pectoris) refractory to medical management, low back pain, cancer pain, complex
regional pain syndrome, post-herpetic neuralgia and post-amputation pain. His procedural
interests include intrathecal drug delivery, spinal cord stimulation, and peripheral
nerve stimulation in treatment for amenable chronic pain conditions.
His research interests include translation of basic pharmacological concepts regarding
individual classes of analgesics and drug delivery technologies from the lab to
clinical application. He is also interested in the elucidating clinical, demographic,
physiological and psychological variables that predict positive or negative outcome
from interventional pain therapies.
Peer Reviewed Publications:
Hurley RW, Grabow TS, Tallarida RJ, Hammond DL (1999) Interaction between medullary
and spinal delta1 and delta2 opioid receptors in the production of antinociception
in the rat. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 289(2): 993-999.
Grabow TS, Hurley RW, Banfor PN, Hammond DL (1999) Supraspinal and spinal delta2
opioid receptor-mediated antinociceptive synergy is mediated by spinal alpha2 adrenoceptors.
PAIN 83 (1): 47-55.
Hurley RW and Hammond DL (2000) The analgesic effects of supraspinal mu and delta
opioid receptor agonists are potentiated during persistent inflammation. J Neurosci
20 (3): 1249-1259.
Hurley RW and Hammond DL (2001) Contribution of endogenous enkephalins to the enhanced
analgesic effects of supraspinal mu opioid receptor agonists after inflammatory
injury. J Neurosci 21 (7): 2536-2545.
Second Year Fellows
Susan Hofkamp
Susan Hofkamp, PhD received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University
of Miami, a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology from Finch University of Health
Sciences, and her PhD in Clinical Psychology, with a specialty in Health Psychology,
from the same program now known as Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and
Science. Dr. Hofkamp also completed a clinical internship in Behavioral Health Psychology
at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. Her thesis was titled "Information
Processing, Pain, and Emotions" and focused on the interaction between hostility
and cognitive processing of pain in a healthy adult population. Results suggested
that highly hostile individuals have greater reactivity and distress following acute
pain induction than those with low levels of hostility. However, there was no interaction
between hostility level and the way in which pain was cognitively processed. Dr.
Hofkamp's dissertation examined patient attitudes towards a self-management approach
to care in an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation program. Readiness to adopt a self-management
approach increased throughout the rehab program and early changes in self-management
attitudes predicted later decreases in weight.
Dr. Hofkamp's primary research interests are in the relationship between pain and
cardiovascular disorders. Specifically, she is interested in exploring the variability
of pain reporting in patients with transient myocardial ischemia and the possible
mechanisms responsible for individual differences. She is also interested in self-management
interventions for patients with pain and cardiovascular disease. During her post-doctoral
fellowship in Biobehavioral Pain Research Dr. Hofkamp would like to develop an area
of expertise in cardiac chest pain and build a foundation for future research into
mechanisms and interventions in this population. Dr. Hofkamp is being mentored by
Dr. Stephen Wegener, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Dr.
Jerilyn Allen, School of Nursing.
Publications:
Landre, N., Poppe, C., Davis, N., Schmaus, B., & Hobbs, SE. (2006).
Cognitive functioning and postconcussive symptoms in trauma patients with and without
mild TBI. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 21(4), 255-273.