Institution Affiliations:

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon
Spine Center

Medical School:

MD, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, 1978

Residency:

University of Rochester-Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, NY, Internal Medicine, 1978-81

Fellowship:

University of Texas Health Science Center, Dallas, TX, Orthopaedics, 1985

Board Certification:

Internal Medicine, 1981

Specialties:

Orthopaedics
Spine Center

Joined Staff in 2003

Practice Note: Chronic Disabling Back & Neck Pain

Selected Publications:

Hazard RG, Fenwick JW, Kalisch SM, Redmond J, Reeves V, Reid S, Frymoyer JW: Functional Restoration with Behavioral Support: A One-Year Prospective Study of Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain. Spine 14(2):157-161, 1989

Hazard RG, Bendix A, Fenwick JW: Disability Exaggeration As a Predictor of Outcomes for Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain. Spine 16(9), 1062-7, 1991

Hazard, RG: Occupational Low Back Pain: The Critical Role of Functional Goal Setting. American Pain Society (APS) Journal 3:101-106, 1994

Hazard, RG: Multidisciplinary Approach to Occupational Low Back Pain and Disability. Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery 2:157-163, 1994

Hazard RG, Haugh LD, Green PA, Jones PL : Chronic Low Back Pain: The Relationship between Patient Satisfaction and Pain, Impairment and Disability Outcomes. Spine 19:881-887, 1994. Abstracted for Orthopaedics/Rheumatology Digest, April:12-13, 1995

Hazard RG, Haugh LD, Reid S, McFarlane G, MacDonald L: Early Physician Notification of Patient Disability Risk and Clinical Guidelines Following Occupational Low Back Injury: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Spine December, 1997

Hazard RG: Point of View: Reliability of the American Medical Association Guides' Model for Measuring Spinal Range of Motion. Spine 24(3):268, 1998

Hazard RG, Reid S, Haugh LD, McFarlane G: A Controlled Trial of an Educational Pamphlet to Prevent Disability Following Occupational Low Back Injury. Spine 25, 2000

Selected Book Chapter:
Hazard RG: Functional Restoration of Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain. Chapter 9 in The Adult Spine, Frymoyer JW, Ed. Raven Press, New York, 1991. Revised for Second Edition, 1995.