Expertise

Our lab is investigating opioid-sparing treatments and novel therapeutic targets for cancer pain.

Dr. White is an expert in the field of chronic pain mechanisms. His research group studies the sequence and nature of the neuroinflammatory events that govern neuron and non-neuronal communication in the nervous system following injury in both pre-clinical models and clinical subjects.

A large proportion of my research has been directed at the influence of tissue-derived  factors on the nervous system during development and following disease/trauma.


Expertise:

  • Neurodegenerative Disorders Research
  • Neurodevelopment Research
  • Neuroimaging (in vivo) Research
  • Ocular Neurobiology Research
  • Pain Research
Affiliations

Vergil K. Stoelting Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Indiana University School of Medicine

Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine

Investigator, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Centers and Institutes, Indiana University School of Medicine

Member, Center for Cachexia Research, Innovation and Therapy, IU Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Centers and Institutes, Indiana University School of Medicine

Member, Center for Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research, Centers and Institutes, Indiana University School of Medicine

Adjunct Professor, Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine

IU Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Centers and Institutes, Indiana University School of Medicine

Past Affiliations

Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine

Professor, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Lecturer, Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago (past)

Associate Professor, Integrative Cell Biology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago (past)

Assistant Professor, Integrative Cell Biology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago (past)

Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Graduate Program, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago (past)

Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Research Institute

Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis (past)

Associate Research Scientist, Neurology and Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University (past)

Research Associate, Massachusetts General Hospital

Burn and Shock Trauma Research Institute, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago (past)

Department of Surgery, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago (past)

Chair, Department of Anesthesia, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago (past)

Neuroscience and Aging Institute, Loyola University Chicago (past)

Assistant Professor, Alcohol Research Program

Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy

Communities
Oncology, Ophthalmology, Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, Neuroscience, Toxicology
Degrees
PhD, University of Toledo, Neurobiology, 1994
MS, University of Toledo, Pathology, 1989
BA, Baldwin Wallace University, Psychology, 1985
Keywords
immunoassay alcohol or alcoholism central nervous system brain development diabetes ischemia metabolic diseases neurological disorders pain traumatology, accidents & injury chronic pain immunological & bioassay methods apoptosis anesthesiology neurology pathology anatomy cell & developmental biology morphology neurobiology
Languages
English
Honors

Vergil K. Stoelting Professor of Anesthesia, Indiana University School of Medicine (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis), 2009

Pilot Project Grant Award (Multiple Sclerosis and Chronic Pain), National Multiple Sclerosis Society (Loyola University, Chicago), 2003-2004

Illinois Excellence in Medicine (Neurobiology), State of Illinois (Loyola University, Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine), 2002-2007

Fellowship (Neurotrophic Factors), Gordon Research Conference (University of Rhode Island), 2001

Individual Grant Award (Injury-induced plasticity in the spinal cord dorsal horn), Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation (Yale University School of Medicine and Loyola University, Chicago), 2000-2003

Fellowship (Neurotrophic Factors), Gordon Research Conference (University of Rhode Island), 1999

Fellowship Grant (Spinal cord regeneration), Spinal Research Trust (Harvard Medical School), 1998-1999

Neural Development, Gordon Research Conference (University of Rhode Island), 1998

NINDS Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Grant (Neural Development), NIH (Washington University in St. Louis), 1994-1997

Predoctoral Fellowship Training Grant (Neurobiology), NIH (Medical College of Ohio), 1990-1994

Associations
American Society of Anesthesiologists
American Society of Pain
Inflammation Research Association
International Association for the Study of Pain
Midwestern Pain Society
Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society
Society for Neuroscience