Jennifer Gewandter

Jennifer Gewandter, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Rochester and an Associate Director of the FDA Public-Private partnership, ACTTION. Her research and scholarly activities are focused on optimizing the design, execution, and transparent dissemination of clinical trials for pain and peripheral neuropathy treatments as well as researching interventions for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy and chronic low back pain. She is a Co-PI of the University of Rochester’s Clinical Hub of the NIH-funded Early Phase Pain Investigation Clinical Network (EPPIC-Net) and is the PI of an NIH-funded, multi-site RCT of a TENS intervention for CIPN. She has co-authored over 75 peer-reviewed publications including those published in PAIN, The Journal of Pain, and Neurology and she recently served as a co-section editor of the Neuropathic Pain Section of Pain Medicine. She has mentored over 20 medical students, residents, fellows, and clinical faculty in research design and scientific writing.