YEARS
1997-Present Medical Director of the Norman Marcus Pain Institute, New York, NY.
1999-Present Clinical Associate Professor in Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, Director Division of Muscle Pain Research, NYU School of Medicine.
2007-Present Director Division of Muscle Pain Research,
NYU School of Medicine, Dept of Anesthesiology.
1996-2000 Medical Director of the Princess Margaret Hospital Pain Treatment and Functional Restoration Centre Windsor, United Kingdom.
1983-1997 Developed and was Chief of the Pain Treatment Service at Lenox Hill Hospital in the departments of Medicine and Psychiatry (New York).
1977 Co-founded the first Pain Center in New York City, the Montefiore Pain Treatment Center in the Department of Anesthesiology.
1975-1977 Staff Physician at the Montefiore Headache unit in the department of Neurology at Montefiore Hospital (New York City).

 

Internship and Residencies:
YEARS
1967-1968 Rotating Intern, Mt. Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
1970-1971 Chief Resident in Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

 

Fellowships:
YEARS
1966 Summer Fellow, New York State Public Health Service, Survey of Medical Rehabilitation Program
1972-1974 Fellow in Liaison and Psychosomatic Psychiatry, Liaison Psychiatrist in General Medicine and Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, Bronx, NY

 

Tutorial:
YEARS
1991-1996 The evaluation and treatment of muscle pain with Hans Kraus MD (White House Physician for back pain for JFK), ten hours per week.

 

Licensure and Certification:
YEARS
1967 California License
1968 New York License
1974 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology & Psychiatry
1993 America Board of Pain Medicine
1997 English Medical License

 

Past Professional Appointments:
YEARS
1970-1971 Assistant Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
1971-1974 Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
1977-1981 Clinical Instructor in Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
1977-1983 Academic Affiliate: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

 

Hospital Appointments:
YEARS
1974-1982 Assistant Attending Psychiatry Montefiore Hospital
1977-1983 Assistant Attending Anesthesiology Montefiore Hospital
1983-1988 Assistant Atending Psychiatry Lenox Hill Hospital
!988- Senior Attending Psychiatry Lenox Hill Hospital
1988- Senior Attending Medicine Lenox Hill Hospital
1983-1998 Chief of Pain Service Mewdicine and Psychiatry                 Lenox Hill Hospital
1997-2000 Consultant, Pain Medicine Princess Margaret Hospital   Windsor, UK
2002- Attending Psychiatry/Pain Medicine Tisch Hospital/NYU
2002- Attending NYU Pain Management Center
2007- Attending Anesthesiology Tisch Hospital/NYU
2007-8 Attending Physician Family Medicine Kaiser Permanente       San Diego

           Major National Association Committee Assignments:

 
1994- AHCPR Reviewer for Acute Low Back Pain Guidelines
1998-2000 Scientific Advisory Committee American Medical Accrediting Program
2000-Present AAPM Liaison To AMA PCPI

                 Memberships, Offices and Committee Assignments in Professional Societies:

 

Professional Society Memberships:
American Academy of Pain Medicine
American Pain Society
American Board of Pain Medicine
International Association for the Study of Pain
Eastern Pain Association
American Medical Association

                                                        Professional Society Offices

American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM):
YEARS
1985-1989 Board of Directors, Director at Large, American Academy of Pain Medicine
1988-1990 Chairman Membership Committee
1989-1999 Chairman, Committee to Establish Uniform Outcome Criteria for US Pain Centers.
1990-2004 Editorial Board: The Clinical Journal of Pain
1992 Scientific Program Chairman for annual scientific meeting, Scottsdale, AZ
1992-1995 Treasurer
1989-1999 President Elect
1999-2000 President
2000-2001 Immediate Past President

 

Committee Memberships: AAPM
YEARS
1990 By Laws and Long Range Planning
1995 Liaison, American Board of Pain Medicine
1999 Liaison to American Pain Society

 

American Board of Pain Medicine (ABPM):
YEARS
1992-1994 Member, Examination Council
1992-1995 Assistant Chairman Membership Committee (ABPM)
1994-1995 Vice President

 

American Pain Society (APS):
YEARS
1991-1992 Chairman Sub-committee on Public Relations

 

Eastern Pain Association:
YEARS
1982-1983 Chairman, CME Credentials Committee
1983-1986 Scientific Program Chairman
1987, 1990 Chairman John J. Bonica Lectureship Award Committee
1984-1988 Council Member Director at Large

 

Biofeedback Society of America:
YEARS
1979-1980 President, New York State Biofeedback Society
1979-1982 Member, Ethics Committee of Biofeedback Society of America
1980-1982 Member, Committee for Accreditation, Biofeedback Society of America

 

Research:
YEARS
1991- 1999 Chairman, Committee to Establish Uniform Outcome Measures for Pain Treatment Programs . Developed a standardized pain treatment assessment instrument.
1992-1993 Pain consultant at Whitehall Laboratories for Robaxin treatment of back pain.
1994 Glaxo Clinical Trial: Sumatriptan Suppos Phase III
1998 Analgesic Drug Trials: The use of Dextromethorphan to reduce tolerance to opioids in chronic pain patients (Algos) Phase II.
Naloxone for opiate induced constipation in chronic pain patients (UK and U.S.), (Roxane) Phase III.
Oxycontin in the treatment of chronic low back pain. (U.K.) (Napp) Phase II
Scientific Advisory Board American Pharmed Labs. Inc.
2003- Conceived and Developed Muscle Pain Detection Device (MPDD) with Stevens Institute of Technology’s                                  Division of Biomedical Engineering
2007-8 Elimination of Need for Low Back Surgery in Patients Scheduled for Surgery at Kaiser Permanente , San Diego

 

Major Research Interests:
Outcomes Assessment and Evidence Based Medicine
Cost Effective Treatments
Muscle Pain Evaluation and Treatment
Physical Examination Protocols
Recreating the Standard Examination Protocols for All Chronic Pain Syndromes to Always Include a Muscle Assessment

 

Principal Clinical and Hospital Service Responsibilities:
YEARS
1975-1977 Staff Physician, Headache Unit, Montefiore Hospital
1977-1983 Co-founder and Co-director, Pain Treatment Center, Montefiore Hospital
1983-1998 Chief of Pain Service and Director of New York Pain Treatment Program, Lenox Hill

 

Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals:
Ruiz, Lowenson, Marcus, Langrod.
Treatment of Drug Addiction in Two Different Communities.  NYS J Med 1973;73:18.
Ruiz, Lowenson, Langrod, Marcus.
Social Rehabilitation of Addicts:  A Two-year Evaluation.  Int. J of the Addictions 1977;1.
Marcus, N, Levin, G.
Clinical Applications of Biofeedback: Implications for Psychiatry: Hospital and Community
Psychiatry 1977;28(1)
Marcus, N.
Establishing Uniform Outcome Measures for Pain Treatment Centers.
APS Bulletin, December, 1991.
Marcus, N.J.  (1997, April)
Technological advance amidst humanistic decline: Ignoring muscle evaluation and treatment in the modern age of medicine
Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 8 (2). pp. 83 – 85.
Kraus, H., Marcus, N.J. (1997, April)
The Reintroduction of an Exercise Program to Directly Treat Low Back Pain of Muscular Origin.
Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 8 (2). pp. 95-108
Marcus, N.J. (1997, April).
Comprehensiveness, Uniformity and Standardization in the Evaluation of Patients with Complaints of Pain.
Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 8 (2). pp. 89-94.
Marcus, NJ (2002, June).
Failure to Diagnose Muscle Pain Leads to Unnecessary Surgery.
Pain Medicine, 3 (2). pp. 161-166.
Marcus, NJ (2005).
Pain In Cancer Unrelated to the Disease or its Treatment.
Cancer Investigations, 23(1). pp 84-93.
Marcus NJ, Mense S (2006).
Invited Response to Weiner and Schmader-Postherpetic Pain: More Than Sensory Neuralgia.
Pain Medicine, 7(3). p.
Marcus NJ, Gracely EJ, Keefe K (2009).
A Novel Structured Muscle Protocol to Diagnose and Treat Pain of Muscular Origin.
(accepted for publication 4/09) Pain Medicine

 

Books:
Marcus N.J. and Arbeiter J. Freedom from Chronic Pain. New York:
Simon & Schuster

 

Chapters in Books:
Mulholland T., Marcus N.
Disregulation of a Controlled EEG Response to Visual Stimulation in a Narcoleptic.
In: Psychophysiology.
Rosenzweig, eds. Amsterdam, Netherlands: VEB Gustav Fischer Verlag Jena(GDR) and Elsevier Biomedical Press, 1980: 263-273
Marcus, N.J. and Bleyer, A.
Outcome Measures in Pain Treatment. In: Surgical Management of Pain
In: Surgical Management of Pain
Ed. Burchiel, K. Thieme, NY, 2002: 156-164
Marcus, NJ. and Bleyer, A.
Assessment of Neurosurgical Pain Treatments.
In: Handbook of Neurosurgery for Pain.
Ed. Follett, K. Elsevier Inc (USA), 2004: 265-270

 

Other Articles:
Original Communications in Non-Reviewed Publications
Marcus, Norman.
The Value of Patient Communications in Pain Management.
Mediguide to Pain. 1985;6:3
Marcus, Norman.
Rationale for the Treatment of Acute Intractable Pain.
Lenox Hill Hospital Pharmacy and Therapeutics Newsletter. 1985;2:4.
Marcus, Norman.
Rationale for Multidisciplinary Treatment of Chronic Pain.
Pain and Analgesia 1986; 2:1.
Marcus, Norman.
A Rational Approach to the Treatment of Cancer Pain.
Home Infusion News 1992; 2:5.

 

Letters to the Editor (Reviewed Journals):
Marcus, NJ.
Letter to the editor: Comments on Culture and Pain.
Morris D. The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1995.
Marcus N.J., Kraus H., Rachlin E.S.
Letter to the editor: In response to Hopwood and Abram.
The Clinical Journal of Pain 1995;11:84.
Marcus N.J., Kraus H., Rachlin E.S.
Comments on K.H. Njoo and E. Van der Does.
Pain 1995; 61:159-160.

 

Magazine Articles:
Marcus, Norman.
Understanding Your Pain.
Mature Choices, Fall issue 1994.

 

Letters to the Editor (Newspapers):
New York Times, 10/14/97, Technological Advance and Humanistic Decline.
New York Times, 3/10/99,
Work-Place Injuries – Ignoring Muscles.