LucyChenMD

Pain Medicine

Associate Professor of Harvard Medical School, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

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Office
55 Fruit Street
Cln 3
Boston, MA 02114
Phone+1 617-726-8810

Fax+1 617-726-3632

Education & Training

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterFellowship, Pain Medicine, 1999 - 2000
Virginia Commonwealth University Health SystemResidency, Anesthesiology, 1995 - 1999
Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical ScienceClass of 1982

Certifications & Licensure

MA State Medical License 1999 - 2026
VA State Medical License 1999 - 2006
American Board of Anesthesiology Pain Medicine

Clinical Trials

Evaluating the Effect of Acupuncture on Pain Relief Using Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST) Start of enrollment: 2010 Jan 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Effect of Acupuncture and Pain Medication on Radicular Pain Using QST Start of enrollment: 2012 Dec 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Effect of Guanfacine on Opioid-induced Hyperalgesia (OIH) and Tolerance Start of enrollment: 2013 Nov 01
Active, not recruiting
Phase 4

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

73 citations
Buprenorphine–Naloxone Therapy in Pain Management
Kelly Yan Chen, Lucy Chen, Jianren Mao
Anesthesiology. 2014-05-01
19 citations
Effects of Spinal Cord Stimulation on Pain Thresholds and Sensory Perceptions in Chronic Pain Patients.
Shihab U. Ahmed, Yi Zhang, Lucy Chen, Kristin St. Hillary, Abigail S. Cohen
Neuromodulation. 2015-07-01
67 citations
Intravenous Ketamine Infusions for Neuropathic Pain Management: A Promising Therapy in Need of Optimization.
Dermot P. Maher, Lucy Chen, Jianren Mao
Anesthesia and Analgesia. 2017-02-01

Journal Articles

A randomized trial to assess the immediate impact of acupuncture on quantitative sensory testing, pain, and functional status.
52. Chen L, Deng H, Houle T, Zhang Y, Ahmed S, Zhang V, Sullivan S, Opalaze A, Roth S, Falacova J, St Clair K, Vo T, Malarick C, Kim H, You Z, Shen S, Mao J, Pain. 2019 Nov;160(11):2456-2463, 11/2019
Persistent Nociception Facilitates the Extinction of Morphine-induced Conditioned Place Preference
51. You Z, Ding W, Doheny JT, Yang J, Yang L, Lim G, Miao J, Chen L, Shen S, Mao J., Anesth Analg 2019 Sep;129(3):890-895., 9/2019
Methylphenidate and Morphine Combination Therapy in a Rat Model of Chronic Pain
49. You Z, Ding W, Doheny JT, Shen S, Yang J, Yang L, Chen L, Zhu S, Mao J, Anesth Analg. 2019 Jun 12. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000004273, 6/12/2019
Alleviation of trigeminal neuropathic pain by electroacupuncture: the role of hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channel protein expression in the Gas...
50. Yang L, Ding W, You Z, Yang J, Shen S, Doheny JT, Chen L, Li R, Mao J., Acupunct Med. 2019 Jun;37(3):192-198. doi: 10.1177/0964528419841614. Epub 2019 Apr 12., 6/8/2019
Analgesic Effects Evoked by Real and Imagined Acupuncture: A Neuroimaging Study
Randy Gollub, Lucy Chen, Jian Kong, Cerebral Cortex
Gut microbiota is critical for the induction of chemotherapy-induced pain.
37. Shen S, Lim G, You Z, Ding W, Huang P, Ran C, Doheny J, Caravan P, Tate S, Hu K, Kim H, McCabe M, Huang B, Xie Z, Kwon D, Chen L, Mao J, Nature Neurosci. 2017 Jul 17. doi: 10.1038/nn.4606., 7/17/2017
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Press Mentions

Medical School Applicants Reach Highest Number Ever as Students Step up to Strained Medical FieldFebruary 21st, 2022

Grant Support

Effect of Combined Morphine and Duloxetine on Chronic PainNIH2017–2020
Effect of Guanfacine on Opioid-induced Hyperalgesia (OIH) and ToleranceNIH2013–2018
Evaluating the Effect of Acupuncture on Pain Relief Using QSTNIH2009–2015
Pain Responses in Patients on Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Chronic PainNIH2006–2011

Committees

Member, AUA Scientific Advisory Board 2016 - Present
Co-chair, APS SIG 2015 - Present
member, ASA Committee for Abstract Review on Chronic pain 2013 - 2015

Research History

clinical investigatorConduct clinical research on chronic pain, opioid treatment and complementary integrative medicine2006 - Present
research associate at NIH NHLBIperform bench study1987 - 1988