Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Adjunct professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and co-author with Jane Ballantyne of “The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic”
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