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Dr. Foreman
received his undergraduate degree from Central College in 1969 and
his PhD in Physiology from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine
in Chicago, Illinois in 1973. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship
at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the Marine
Biomedical Institute. He received his training from William D. Willis
Jr., MD, PhD who is internationally recognized for his seminal work
on neural mechanisms of pain.
After spending two years as a faculty member at UTMB Galveston,
he accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Physiology at the
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He advanced through
the ranks to Professor and was appointed Chair of the department
in 1986.
Dr. Foreman
is internationally recognized in the scientific community for
his contributions to understanding the neural mechanisms of visceral
pain especially related to coronary artery disease and more recently,
irritable bowel syndrome. He has been funded continually by the
National Institutes of Health since 1975, and is the recipient
of a Research Career Development Award.
Recently he
established the International Working Group on Neuromodulation
of the Heart. This group of clinicians and basic scientists is
working together to explain how spinal cord stimulation relieves
pain, improves cardiac function and protects the heart from detrimental
effects of coronary artery disease and angina pectoris. Dr. Foreman
is a member of The American Physiological Society, The Society
for Neuroscience, The International Association for the Study
of Pain, The American Pain Society, The American Neuromodulation
Society and the International Neuromodulation Society.
He serves
as Scientific Editor of the Neuromodulation Journal and is Treasurer
of the International Neuromodulation Society
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