Robert M. Bennett, MD, FRCP, FACP 

Dr. Bennett is Professor of Medicine and Nursing Research at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon.  He was born and educated in England, and did his basic rheumatology training with Professor Eric Bywaters at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London.  He has lived in the USA since 1972 and did additional training with Professor Daniel McCarty at the University of Chicago.  He was Chairman of the Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases at OHSU for 24 years (1976-2000). Dr. Bennett is currently the Board Chairman of the International Myopain Society. He is a past President of the International Myopain Society and the American College of Rheumatology Western Region.  He and his colleagues developed the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire in 1993; it is now the most widely used instrument for measuring disease activity in fibromyalgia patients. He first reported adult growth hormone [GH] deficiency in a subset of fibromyalgia patients in 1992 and has subsequently shown the benefits of GH replacement. He holds patents for the utilization of GH in fibromyalgia, (US Patent #  5,378,686) chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis and polymyalgia rheumatica US Patent #  5,965,520)  His bench research involves the molecular characterization of cell surface DNA receptors  (US Patent #  6,602,707). He has over 400 publications and has been on the editorial boards of Pain, Arthritis and Rheumatism, Geriatrics, the Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain and the Journal of Functional Syndromes. Dr. Bennett is now retired from patient care, but continues to be actively involved in research at OHSU.