Current MGH Appointment: Assistant in Neurology and Neuropathology, Director of MGH Center for Shingles & Postherpetic Neuralgia
Current HMS Appointment: Assistant Professor of Anesthesia and Neurology
Current MGH Address: Offic:, White 531, for mail: Clinics 3
Current MGH Phone #: 617-726-2584
E-Mail: aoaklander@PARTNERS.ORG
FAX #: 617-726-5845
Undergraduate Education: B.S., Cornell University, 1980
Graduate and/or Medical School: MS, MD, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1987
Residencies and Fellowships:
Fellow, Department of Neurological Surgery (Pain Group) 1994-1995 The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Senior Clinical Fellow, Department of Neurology 1991-1994 The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Chief Resident, Department of Neurology 1990-1991 University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ
Resident, Department of Neurology 1988-1991 University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ
Foreign Languages Spoken: French
Certification by an American Specialty Board:
National Board of Medical Examiners,
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology- Added Qualification in Pain Management
Primary Specialty: Neurology
Other Specialties: Nerve injury, pain management, neuropathology
Research Interests:
Director, Neuropathic Pain Study Group
Director, Neurodiagnostic Skin Biopsy Laboratory
Mechanisms of pain after nerve injury, Neuropathic pain syndromes including, Shingles, postherpetic neuralgia, postherpetic itch, Complex regional pain syndrome (reflex sympathetic dystrophy), Trigeminal neuralgia, Painful sensory neuropathy
Clinical Interests: Pain, Nerve injury, Shingles, Itch
Representative Publications:
Oaklander AL, Romans K, Horasek S, Stocks A, Hauer P, Meyer R: Unilateral postherpetic neuralgia is associated with bilateral sensory neurite damage. Annals of Neurology 44:789-795, 1998.
Oaklander AL. Pathology of shingles: Head & Campbell's 1900 monograph. Archives of Neurology 56:1292-1294, 1999.
Pappagallo M, Oaklander AL, Quatrano-Piacentini AL, Clark MR, Raja SN: Heterogenous patterns of sensory dysfunction in postherpetic neuralgia suggest multiple pathophysiological mechanisms. Anesthesiology 92:691-698, 2000.
Oaklander AL. The density of remaining nerve endings in human skin with and without postherpetic neuralgia after shingles. Pain 92:139-145, 2001.
Oaklander AL, Cohen SP, Raju SVY: Intractable post-herpetic itch and cutaneous deafferentation after facial shingles. In press, Pain.
Oaklander AL, Rissmiller J: Postherpetic neuralgia after shingles, an under-recognized cause of vulvodynia. In press, Obstetrics and Gynecology.