Richard H. Gracely, Ph.D.
Richard Gracely, Ph.D., received his doctorate from Brown University in 1977. In 1974, he began working in what is now the Pain and Neurosensory Mechanisms Branch, National Institutes of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, and was chief of the Clinical Measurement and Mechanisms Unit and an adjunct member of the Department of Anesthesia at Georgetown University Medical Center. His research focuses on the neural mechanisms responsible for pain abnormalities observed in chronic multisymptom illness and the experimental models of these syndromes. Pain from clinical conditions and pain induced in the laboratory are assessed by subjective reports and functional brain imaging using positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging. Gracely has published extensively in the field of pain, and is an associate editor of the journal PAIN and an editor of the Journal of Pain. He currently is a professor in the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Neurology at the University of Michigan and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.
