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    Patrick Dougherty, PhD

    Professor
    MD Anderson Cancer

    For the past 22 years, Dr. Dougherty has held appointment as Professor of Pain Medicine at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center with his recent work centered on determining the mechanisms of neuropathic pain experienced by cancer patients. The work has been composed of parallel studies conducted in both humans and animals. In the human studies, he has conducted psychophysical studies to define the sensory fibers involved in these pain conditions; and more recently, expanded this work to utilize human dorsal root ganglia tissue excised during surgical treatment for cancer. The animal studies have been to define both the peripheral and central neurophysiological mechanisms that are altered following cancer and cancer chemotherapy and to determine agents that may provide a neuroprotective role. The current emphasis in each of these studies is to determine the role that innate immune mechanisms and even more recently the role that membrane lipid rafts play in the pathogenesis of cancer- and cancer treatment-evoked neuropathic pain. Overall, his work has resulted in the publication of 208 manuscripts and 31 book chapters and has received greater than 11000 citations with an h index is 67.

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