John T. Farrar, M.D., Ph.D.Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Member, University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
Director, Undergraduate Medical Education in Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Director, Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology Program, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Department: Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Contact information
Room 816, Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
Office: 215-898-5802
Fax: 215-573-5315 Email: jfarrar@mail.med.upenn.edu
Graduate Group Affiliations
Education:
ScB. (Biology, Computer Science minor) Brown University, 1976. M.D. The University of Rochester School of Medicine, 1981. M.S.C.E. (Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics) The University of Pennsylvania, 2000. Ph.D. (Graduate Group - Biostatistics and Epidemiology) The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2004.
Post-Graduate Training
Residency Program in Internal Medicine, Children's Hospital of San Francisco, CA, 1981-1983. Residency Program in Neurology, The New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, 1984-1986. Chief Resident in Neurology, The New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, 1986-1987. Neuro-Oncology and Pain Fellow, Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 1987-1988. Fellowship in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1993-2000.
Certifications
Permanent linkAmerican Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Recertified - 2006), 1995. Subspecialty in Pain Medicine, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2004. Description of Research ExpertiseResearch 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.Description of Clinical ExpertiseFocuses on all aspects of pain and symptom therapy in cancer patients as a member of the Symptom and Palliative Care Team and as a collaborator in the development of a multi-disciplinary program for the evaluation and treatment of patients with pain.Selected PublicationsStrom, B.L., Kelly, T., Norman, S., Farrar, J.T., Kimmel, S., Lautenbach, E., Feldman H.I. : The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine’s Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology Degree Program: A Model for Clinical Research Training. Academic Medicine 87(1): 1-7, Jan 2012.Dworkin, R.H., Peirce-Sandner, S., Turk, D.C., McDermott, M.P., Gibofsky, A., Simon, L.S., Farrar, J.T., Katz, N.P. : Outcome measures in placebo-controlled trials of osteoarthritis: responsiveness to treatment effects in the REPORT database. Osteoarthritis Cartilage Mar 23 2011 Notes: Epub ahead of print. Gordon, D., Pellino, T., Turk, D.C., Sherwood, G., Farrar, J.T., Paice, J., McCracken, L., Wallace, M., Polomano, R., Strassels, S.: Revised American Pain Society patient outcome questionnaire (APS-POQ-R) for quality improvement of pain management in hospitalized adults – preliminary psychometric evaluation. Journal of Pain 11(11): 1172-86, November 2010. Lee, J.Y.K., Chen, H.I., Urban, C., Hojat, A., Church, E., Xie, S.X., Farrar, J.T.: Development and psychometric testing of the Brief Pain Inventory-Facial in patients with facial pain syndromes. Journal of Neurosurgery 113(3): 516-23, September 2010. Dworkin, R.H., Turk, D.C., Peirce-Sandner, S., McDermott, M.P., Farrar, J.T., Hertz, S., Katz, N.P., Raja, S.N., Rappaport, B,A.: Placebo and treatment group responses in postherpetic neuralgia vs. painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy clinical trials in the REPORT database. Pain 150(1): 12-6, July 2010. Brown, D.C., Boston, R.C., Farrar, J.T. : Use of an Activity Monitor to Detect Response to Treatment in Dogs with Osteoarthritis Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 237(1): 66-70, July 2010. Farrar, J.T., Polomano, R.C., Berlin, J.A., Strom, B.L.: Comparison of Change in the 0-10 Numeric Rating Scale to a Pain Relief Scale and Global Medication Performance Scale in a Short-term Clinical Trial of Breakthrough Pain Intensity. Anesthesiology 112(6): 1464-72, June 2010. Farrar, J.T., Pritchett, Y.L., Robinson, M., Prakash, A., Chappell, A. : The Clinical Importance of Changes in the 0-10 Numeric Rating Scale for Worst, Least, and Average Pain Intensity: Analyses of Data from Clinical Trials of Duloxetine in Pain Disorders. Journal of Pain 11(2): 109-18, February 2010. Halbert SC, French B, Gordon RY, Farrar JT, Schmitz K, Morris PB, Thompson PD, Rader DJ, Becker DJ.: Tolerability of red yeast rice (2,400 mg twice daily) versus pravastatin (20 mg twice daily) in patients with previous statin intolerance. American Journal of Cardiology 105(2): 198-204, January 2010. Farrar J.T. : Advances in clinical research methodology for pain clinical trials. Nature Medicine 16(11): 1284-93, 2010.
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