Daniel J. Clauw, M.D. is on the staff of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research. He is the Director of the University's Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, and the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center. Dr. Clauw's research interests are in fibromyalgia and central pain syndromes, stress, mechanisms of pain processing, and the treatment of chronic pain, and he has research support in the form of grants from institutions including the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. In addition to his research work and appointments at the University of Michigan, Dr. Clauw has served as a Visiting Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. In 2006, he was awarded the Nana Svartz Lecture of the Swedish Rheumatological Society at the Swedish Society of Medicine Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden. Dr. Clauw received his MD with honors from the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Rheumatology at Georgetown University Medical Center, where he was later appointed as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and an Instructor of Medicine. He is a member of the American Medical Association, American College of Rheumatology, American College of Physicians, American Federation for Medical Research, and the International Association for the Study of Pain.

Dr. Clauw is a co-editor of Arthritis and Rheumatism, and he is on the editorial boards of Arthritis Care and Research, Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain, and Current Rheumatology Reviews.