Ewan McNicol
Associate Professor
About
Dr. McNicol received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from MCPHS University Boston in 2016. He maintains a practice site in ambulatory pain management at Atrius Health in Boston. He has co-coordinated Drug Literature Evaluation in the PharmD program and Pharmacology In the PA program. He is a former director at Tufts University School of Medicine for the course, “Introduction to Clinical Pain Problems.”
Dr. McNicol has been published in several scientific journals, is a field editor for Cochrane’s Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care group, and collaborates with Analgesic, Anesthetic, and Addiction Clinical Trial Translations, Innovations, Opportunities, and Networks (ACTTION), a public-private partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He conducts evidence-based reviews of analgesic interventions and outcomes for pain and related conditions.
Education
- PharmD
Master's Pain Research, Education and Policy
Research Interests
Evidence-based pain management; Analgesic trial methodologyEducation
- PharmD
Master's Pain Research, Education and Policy
Research Interests
Evidence-based pain management; Analgesic trial methodologyPublications
- Kleykamp BA, Ferguson MC, McNicol E, Bixho I, Matthews M, Turk DC, Dworkin RH, Strain EC. A comparison of registered and published primary outcomes in clinical trials of opioid use disorder: ACTTION review and recommendations. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2022 Apr 7:109447.
- Holzer KJ, Veasley C, Kerns RD, Edwards RR, Gewandter JS, Langford D, Yaeger L, McNicol E, Ferguson M, Turk DC, Dworkin RH. Partnering with Patients in clinical trials of pain treatments: a narrative review. PAIN. 2022 Feb 3.
- Kleykamp BA, Ferguson MC, McNicol E, Bixho I, Arnold LM, Edwards RR, Fillingim R, Grol- Prokopczyk H, Ohrbach R, Turk DC, Dworkin RH. The prevalence of comorbid chronic pain conditions among patients with temporomandibular disorders: A systematic review. J Am Dent Assoc 2022:153:241-50.
- Hohenschurz-Schmidt D, Kleykamp BA, Draper-Rodi J, Vollert J, Chan J, Ferguson M, McNicol E, Phalip J, Evans SR, Turk DC, Dworkin RH. Pragmatic trials of pain therapies: a systematic review of methods. Pain 2022;163:21-46.
- Lim J, Chen D, McNicol E, Sharma L, Varaday G, Sharma A, Wilson E, Wright-Yatsko T, Yaeger L, Gilron I, Finnerup NB. Risk factors for persistent pain after breast and thoracic surgeries: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Pain 2022;163:3-20.