Robert W. Hurley, MD/PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Division of Pain Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dr. Hurley is the Director of The Johns Hopkins Blaustein Pain Treatment Center
Dr. Hurley is an associate editor of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (RAPM) and a guest editor 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 15 years and has published more than 30 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.
Dr. Hurley 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 MacNeal 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. He joined the faculty of the department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2007.
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 (reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)), post-herpetic neuralgia (shingles) and post-amputation pain. His procedural and research interests include intrathecal drug delivery, spinal cord stimulation, and peripheral nerve stimulation in treatment of chronic pain conditions.
