Daniel J Clauw, MD
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About
Daniel Clauw is a Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine (Rheumatology) and Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. He serves as Director of the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center and Co-Director of the HEAL National K12 Clinical Pain Career Development Program. Until January 2009 he also served as the first Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research within the University of Michigan Medical School, and PI of the UM Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (CTSA). He attended the University of Michigan for both undergraduate and medical school studies and then completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology Fellowship at Georgetown University. He joined the faculty at Georgetown University in 1990, and while there, founded the Georgetown Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, and served as the Division Chief of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine. Since moving to UM in 2001, Dr. Clauw has continued his commitment to the clinical care and research into overlapping conditions such as Fibromyalgia, Gulf War Illnesses, and Interstitial Cystitis just to name a few, having become an internationally known expert in chronic pain, and especially the central nervous system contributions to chronic pain states, performing past or ongoing work in conditions such as low back pain, osteoarthritis, vulvodynia, endometriosis, irritable bowel syndrome, and temporomandibular joint disorder.
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HEAL K12
Qualifications
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FellowGeorgetown University Medical Center, Rheumatology, Washington D.C., United States
1988 - 1990
Postdoctoral Fellowship
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ResidentGeorgetown University Medical Center, Internal Medicine, Washington D.C., United States
1985 - 1988
Residency
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MD, Graduated with HonorsUniversity of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
1981 - 1985
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BSUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
1976 - 1981
Center Memberships
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Center MemberRegenerative Medicine Resource Center
Research Overview
• Fibromyalgia
• Chronic pain
• Mechanisms of pain processing
• Central Sensitization
• Opioids
• Cannabinoids
• Nociplastic pain
• Psychedelics
Recent Publications
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Singh S, Alrubaie N, Smith M, Kountanis JA, Pancaro C, Yuan Y, Vlisides PE, Clauw DJ, DeJonckheere M. Int J Obstet Anesth, 2026 Aug 1; 68: 105264Journal ArticleGeneral anesthesia for cesarean delivery: a single-center sequential mixed methods study on labor nurses', obstetricians' and anesthesiologists' knowledge, attitudes and practices.
DOI:10.1016/j.ijoa.2026.105264 PMID: 42574845 -
Kerrebijn I, Bjornsdottir G, Arbabi K, Urpa L, Haapaniemi H, Thorleifsson G, Stefansdottir L, Frangakis S, Valliere J, Kunorozva L, Abner E, Ji C, Kangur M, Aagaard B, Bliddal H, Brunak S, Bruun MT, Didriksen M, Erikstrup C, Finer S, Geirsson AJ, Gudbjartsson DF, Hansen TF, van Heel D, Jonsdottir I, Knight S, Knowlton KU, Mikkelsen C, Nadauld LD, Olafsdottir TA, Ostrowski SR, Pedersen OBV, Saevarsdottir S, Skuladottir AT, Sørensen E, Stefansson H, Sulem P, Sveinsson OA, Thorlacius GE, Thorsteinsdottir U, Ullum H, Vikingsson A, Werge TM, Chronic Pain Genomics Consortium , FinnGen , DBDS Genomic Consortium , Estonian Biobank Research Team , Genes & Health Research Team , Saxena R, Stefansson K, Brummett CM, Glintborg B, Clauw DJ, Thorgeirsson TE, Williams FMK, Sinnott-Armstrong N, Ollila HM, Wainberg M. Nat Med, 2026 Jul 28;Journal ArticleThe genetic architecture of fibromyalgia across 2.5 million individuals.
DOI:10.1038/s41591-026-04492-6 PMID: 42521817 -
Hidalgo-Lopez E, Portengen CM, Smith T, Angstadt M, Schrepf A, Clauw DJ, Harte SE, Heitzeg MM, Mindell JA, Beltz AM, Kaplan CM. Communications Biology, 2026 Jul 23;Journal ArticleSex-specific developmental pathways link brain networks, sensory sensitivity, and sleep to adolescent pain
DOI:10.1038/s42003-026-10619-9 -
Liu Y, Harris RE, Clauw D, Bayman E, Leroux A, Lindquist MA. 2026 Jul 18;PreprintA Beta-Binomial Model for Estimating Zero- or One-inflated Pain Trajectories.
DOI:10.64898/2026.05.07.721507 PMID: 42182272 -
Shraim MA, Sterling M, Sluka KA, Arendt-Nielsen L, Backonja M, Baron R, Blechschmidt V, Clauw DJ, Cohen M, Coombes BK, Elsenbruch S, Gilron I, Harris RE, Jones LE, Kapreli E, Kato F, Kosek E, Madden VJ, Nijs J, Reis FJJ, Rice AC, Ringkamp M, Schmid AB, Irani A, Veasley C, Hodges PW. Pain, 2026 Jul 1; 167 (7): 1669 - 1682.Journal ArticleTowards a tool to discriminate between pain mechanistic descriptors: expert ranking of clinical features and allocation of weights using a forced choice paradigm
DOI:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003979 PMID: 42048572 -
Hodges PW, Arendt-Nielsen L, Bannister K, Clauw D, Nijs J, van den Broeke E, Veasley C, Woolf CJ, Sterling M. Pain, 2026 Jun 17;Journal ArticleCentral sensitization: when is this the right terminology?
DOI:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000004017 PMID: 42302106 -
Malik M, Smith T, Clauw D, Nafiu OO, Bergmans R, Kaplan C, Puglia MP. Pain Reports, 2025 Apr 22;Journal ArticleYouth Experiences with Discrimination and the Association with Multisite Pain
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Schrepf A, Smith T, Waller N, Harris RE, Ichesco E, Kaplan CM, Till SR, Williams DA, As-Sanie S, Evanski JM, Urquhart A, Brummett CM, Clauw DJ, Harte SE. 2026 May 27;PreprintGeneralized Sensory Sensitivity for Prediction of Post-Surgical Analgesic Outcomes: An Observational Cohort Study of Total Hip Arthroplasty and Hysterectomy.
DOI:10.64898/2026.05.26.26354108 PMID: 42245048
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