Daniel Clauw, M.D.


Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
Professor of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry
Director, Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research
Director, Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center

Daniel J. Clauw is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology, and Director of the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center (CPFRC). The CPFRC is one of the world's leading pain research groups, and focuses on identifying the mechanisms and most effective treatments of chronic pain and fatigue syndromes. Dr. Clauw’s research interests on fibromyalgia, low back pain, stress, rheumatic disorders and Gulf War Illness have resulted in more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and multiple speaking engagements. He serves on several study sections and is a co-editor of Arthritis and Rheumatism, and serves as a consultant to the Institute of Medicine, CDC, the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, and the National Institutes of Health.

The Center for the Advancement of Clinical Research was a unit founded in 1998 to provide infrastructure and support for clinical and translational research. is dedicated to the facilitation of innovative clinical investigation at the University of Michigan. This unit has been successful at developing many innovative programs that have helped improve the infrastructure and support of clinical and translational research. In recognition of this, in 2004 Dr. Clauw was named Assistant Dean for Clinical and Translational Research. In 2005, he was chosen to lead Michigan's effort to obtain a NIH CTSA grant, and the institutional process to provide the necessary roadmap for restructuring the clinical and translational research enterprise culminated in the University creating the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research in November 2006. Dr. Clauw will direct this institute and his Medical School title will change to Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research in January 2007.

Dr. Clauw attended the University of Michigan for his undergraduate studies and Medical School. He completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology Fellowship at Georgetown University where he joined the faculty in 1990. He has received numerous awards, including Intern of the Year at Georgetown University Hospital and the Hussey Teaching Award. Additionally, he has received the “Breakthroughs in Research Award” from the Arthritis Foundation and the Senior Fellow Award of The American College of Rheumatology. He became Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy at Georgetown, in addition to serving as the Director of the Georgetown Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center. In 2002 he returned to Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan and successfully established faculty collaborations in numerous Divisions and Departments throughout the Medical School to bring pain researchers under the umbrella organization of the CPFRC.

Contact Information

Daniel Clauw, M.D.
24 Frank Lloyd Wright Dr, Lobby M SPC 5737
PO Box 385
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-5737
734-998-6961
734-998-6900 fax
dclauw@umich.edu