Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology

B.S./B.A., University of Missouri Columbia

M.P.H., University of Missouri Columbia

Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis

 In conjunction with the Open Philanthropy Project

I lead a multidisciplinary research program aimed at understanding the neural mechanisms underlying the emotional distress associated with stress, chronic pain, and addiction. The long-term goal of the laboratory is to use a neural circuit-level understanding of the brain systems that are disrupted in anxiety and chronic pain to reverse these conditions. If these questions become intractable, the laboratory plans to develop new wireless technology to interface with the nervous system and explore new approaches to data analysis to access the most information from collected data.