Dr. Foreman
Dr. Robert D. Foreman, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology in the College of Medicine at The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, OK. He has also been awarded the George Lynn Cross Research Professorship and the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Presidential Professorship from the University of Oklahoma in recognition of his research and teaching achievements.
He received his Ph.D. in Physiology from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois under the mentorship of Dr. Robert D. Wurster. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the Marine Biomedical Institute. He received his training from William D. Willis Jr. M.D., Ph.D. who is internationally recognized for his seminal work on neural mechanisms of pain.
After spending two years as a faculty member at UTMB Galveston, he accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He advanced through the ranks to Professor and was appointed Chair of the department in 1986. Related to the Chairmanship, he served as President of Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology in North America.
Dr. Foreman is internationally recognized in the scientific community for his contributions to understanding the neural mechanisms of visceral pain especially related to coronary artery disease and more recently, irritable bowel syndrome. He has been funded continually by the National Institutes of Health since 1975. He was also awarded a Research Career Development Award. Recently he established the International Working Group on Neuromodulation of the Heart. This group of clinicians and basic scientists is working together to explain how spinal cord stimulation relieves pain, improves cardiac function and protects the heart from detrimental effects of coronary artery disease and angina pectoris.
Dr. Foreman is a member of The American Physiological Society, The Society for Neuroscience, The International Association for the Study of Pain, The American Pain Society, The American Neuromodulation Society and the International Neuromodulation Society. He presently serves as Scientific Editor of the Neuromodulation Journal and is Treasurer of the International Neuromodulation Society.
Bob and his wife Charlotte have two very active sons who attend Oklahoma State University. He enjoys his hobby of collecting model John Deere tractors, a connection with his boyhood days on the farm, and his 30 plus year habit of jogging.
