Journalist and author of Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

Journalist and author of five books of narrative nonfiction, including two on our national epidemic of drug addiction and one on tuba players and band directors

Emeritus Professor of Oral Surgery, King's College London; Honorary Consultant, King's College Hospital; Visiting Professor, University of Leeds; Visiting Professor, University of Jordan

Professor of Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine (Rheumatology), and Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School; Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Associate Director, Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center; Co-Director of Research Development, Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR)

David Hao, MD, MS: Director, MGH Cancer Pain Program; Anesthesiologist and Chronic Pain Physician, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School; Editor-in-Chief, A&A Practice; Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Anesthesia & Analgesia. Jocelyn Streid, MD, MPP: Anesthesiologist and Interventional Pain Physician, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Professor and Department Head, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Dentistry, Texas A&M University

Chief, Division of Pain Medicine; Vice Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine; Director, Center for Translational Pain Research, Massachusetts General Hospital; Richard K. Kitz Professor of Anesthesia Research, Harvard Medical School

Lisa Simon, MD, DMD: Director, Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine; Assistant Professor of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Richard Valachovic, DMD, MPH: Interim Chair, Department of General Dentistry and Comprehensive Care; Clinical Professor and Co-Executive Director, Center for Oral Health Policy and Management, New York University College of Dentistry; President Emeritus, American Dental Education Association; Harvard School of Dental Medicine

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Orthopaedic Knee Specialist and Knee Preservation Surgeon; Founder, The Knee Signature, Regenera Clinic Barcelona

Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Director, Neuroinflammation Program, Center for Inflammation Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital

Associate Professor of Neurology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University; Division Chief and Director of Outpatient Operations, Jefferson Headache Center

David T. Rovee PhD and Joanne V. Rovee Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Founding Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research (CHOIR), Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

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Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark; Senior Physician-Scientist, Translational Research Center, Copenhagen University Hospital – Rigshospitalet

J.D. Irving Research Chair in Occupational Medicine and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Dalhousie University; Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Chief, Division of Physiatry, New England Baptist Hospital

Chief, Division of Behavioral Neurology, Mass General Brigham; Founding Director, Functional Neurological Disorder Unit and Research Group, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Senior Investigator, Division of Intramural Research; Chief, Section on Affective Neuroscience and Pain, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health; Joint Appointments, National Institute of Mental Health and National Institute on Drug Abuse

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Paul Negulescu, PhD: Senior Vice President, Research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Darin Correll, MD: Attending Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Director, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core; Director, Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND), McLean Hospital; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Emeritus Professor, Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Rutgers School of Dental Medicine; Adjunct Professor, Eastman Institute for Oral Health, University of Rochester; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Oral & Facial Pain and Headache

Gary Klasser, DMD: Professor, Division of Diagnostic Sciences, Louisiana State University Health New Orleans School of Dentistry; Henry A. Gremillion, DDS Chair in Orofacial and Maxillofacial Pain. Shruti Handa, DMD: Assistant Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Harvard School of Dental Medicine; Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital

Director, Chronic Pain Inpatient Service; Anesthesiologist and Chronic Pain Physician, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Alopi Patel, MD: Associate Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; Associate Program Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Anesthesiologist and Interventional Pain Physician, Rutgers Health. Helen Sauhee Jung, PhD: MD-PhD Candidate and NIH F30 Predoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Postdoctoral Research Intern, Pain Prevention Research Center, Hospital for Special Surgery

Co-Founder and Clinical Advisor, AugMend Health; Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience; Director, Dartmouth Brain Imaging Center, Dartmouth College

Clinical Fellow, Mass General Brigham–Harvard Headache Medicine Fellowship; John R. Graham Headache Center, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital

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Co-Founder and Director, Chronic Pain Research Alliance, an initiative of The TMJ Association

President, Latin American Pain Society; Interventional Pain Physician, Centro Médico Zambrano Hellion; Professor of Interventional Pain Management, Tecnológico de Monterrey and University of Guadalajara

Professor, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney; Director, Centre for Pain IMPACT; Senior Research Scientist and Group Leader, Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA)

Former Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Northeastern University (2025–2026); former Eduardo D. Glandt President’s Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania

Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Assistant Professor; Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Researcher and Orofacial Physiotherapist, Department of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Guest Lecturer, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, University of Antwerp; Faculty, SOMT University of Physiotherapy