Robert B. Raffa

Dr. Robert B. Raffa has devoted his professional career to pharmacology and understanding the balance between therapeutic utility and abuse potential of drugs. He was team co-leader for analgesics drug discovery at Johnson & Johnson, where he was involved in the elucidation of the mechanism-of- action of tramadol and the discovery of tramadol combinations. Dr. Raffa has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers, is co-author or editor of several books on pharmacology and is a co-editor of the Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. He taught at Temple University School of Pharmacy and is adjunct professor at the University of Arizona. He is a past president of the Mid-Atlantic Pharmacology Society, and he lectures and consults worldwide on analgesics and analgesic combinations.