Dr. Yeomans is a Professor in the Department of Anesthesia at Stanford Medical School. He is also Director of Pain Research and the Medical Neuroscientist Program at Stanford. He received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Florida, where he studied the differential effects of strong narcotic analgesics on different types of pain. His current academic interests focus primarily on gene therapy for chronic pain and biomarkers for different pain types.