About Me
I completed my Anesthesiology Residency and Pain Medicine Fellowship training at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Following my faculty leadership roles at Johns Hopkins, the University of Florida, and the Medical College of Wisconsin. I was recruited to be the Executive Director of the Pain Service Line for the Wake Forest Baptist Health System and the Wake Forest Univeristy School of Medicine in 2017 to develop pain clinical care, translational clinical research and fellowship education across the health system and Medical School. I lead the Pain and Spine Specialists group in their clinical care of all patients in our health system.
I transitioned from basic science research training in pain neurobiology to an active clinical translational and clinical informatics research program funded by numerous NIH, AHRQ, DOD, and industry sponsors. The many facets of this work at Wake Forest University School of Medicine naturally connect me across missions and departments, giving me grassroots understanding of faculty development needs.
I have participated in multiple academic and professional leadership training and mentorship programs, including the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship. My publication record includes more than 140 manuscripts. I am the editor of the two major pain textbooks, the Editor-in-Chief of Pain Medicine Journal and serve on the Executive Board of Directors for AAPM. I have guided the careers of more than 40 faculty mentees and received the Exemplary Teacher's Award while on the faculty at the University of Florida College of Medicine.