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Arthur G. Lipman, Pharm.D.

Arthur G. Lipman is Professor of Pharmacotherapy in the College of Pharmacy, Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology in the School of Medicine, and Director of Clinical Pharmacology at the University Hospitals and Clinics Pain Management Center.  He also is a member of the Huntsman Cancer Institute Pain Medicine and Palliative Care Advisory Group at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center in Salt Lake City.  Before moving to Utah in 1977 to become chairman of his academic department, Dr. Lipman was Drug Information Director at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center and held concurrent faculty appointments at the Yale University School of Medicine, Yale University Graduate School of Nursing and University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy.

Dr. Lipman served on both the Acute Pain Management and Cancer Pain Management Guidelines Panels of the U.S. Public Health Service Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.  He was an investigator on the original NIH-sponsored demonstration of hospice care in the United States and has been a hospice consultant, board member and president during the past 30 years.  Dr. Lipman was a founder and past president of Cancer Pain Relief-Utah and served on the Board of Directors of the American Alliance of Cancer Pain Initiatives. He has been a consultant and special grants reviewer for the National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration and other government agencies.  Dr. Lipman’s research is in pharmacotherapy of chronic pain and evidence-based symptom control in palliative care.

His professional service includes co-chair of the American Pain Society Arthritis Pain Management Clinical Guidelines Panel, American Cancer Society National Advisory Group on Cancer Pain Relief, American Pain Society Analgesic Regulatory Affairs Committee and the Ethics Task Force of the American Pain Society and American Academy of Pain Medicine.  He co-chaired the American Pain Society Analgesic Principles 2003 revision committee.

He has served as editor of three professional journals. He is founding editor of the Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy (indexed in Medline/PubMed), is an editor in the international Cochrane Collaboration on evidence-based medicine and has served on the editorial boards of a dozen other professional and scientific journals.  He also served as editor of the Research Update and Palliative Care departmentsof the American Pain Society Bulletin.

Dr. Lipman has published five books and over 200 articles, chapters and monographs plus over 300 reviews and editorials.  He has made over 600 invited presentations at national and international professional and scientific meetings.