Course Director
Director, Translational Pain Research
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Christine N. Sang, MD, MPH FASA, is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, specializing in both pediatric and adult anesthesiology and acute and chronic pain management. She is the founding director of the Translational Pain Research program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which conducts Phases 1a (First-in-Human), 1b/2a (proof-of-concept) and 2b/3 analgesic clinical trials in a variety of pain states and in neurodegeneration. Dr. Sang continues to serve on numerous boards and committees for her institution, leading medical societies, government agencies, publications, nonprofit organizations, and patient advocacy. She is the founding chair of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee at United Spinal Association and served on the board of Praxis Spinal Cord Institute where she was chair of the governance committee and continues to serve on their Innovation Committee. She serves the Department of Health and Human Services as a scientific member of the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee and grant review committees. Dr. Sang obtained her M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and her M.P.H. from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
UC San Diego Health
San Diego, CA

Mark Steven Wallace, MD, received his MD from Creighton University School of Medicine in 1987. He completed an Anesthesiology residency at the University of Maryland followed by an NIH training grant fellowship and a Clinical Pain Fellowship in the Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego (UCSD). He is currently a Professor of Anesthesiology and the past Chief, Division of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology, UCSD School of Medicine and has over 30 years’ experience providing care for chronic pain and training Pain Fellows. He is also Co-Director, Division of Clinical Research Services in the UCSD Altman Clinical and Translational Institute (ACTRI) and Co-Investigator on the UCSD CTSA grant. He oversees an 18,000 sq ft research clinic which includes a phase I unit and is responsible for supporting the UCSD clinical investigators across all disciplines. He currently has numerous NIH grants supporting early phase clinical trials and back pain phenotyping. He conducts phase 1A studies in the ACTRI phase 1 unit.

Dr. Wallace is the recipient of numerous awards including the Award for Excellence in Clinical Care, American Pain Society Center of Excellence Award, and the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award. Dr. Wallace has authored and co-authored more than 340 articles, abstracts, books, and book chapters concerning pain research and management, including research on the use of medical cannabis to treat pain. He has also authored numerous book chapters and review articles on medical cannabis to treat chronic pain. He has presented over 200 lectures at major meetings nationally and internationally. He has extensive experience with all phases of clinical trials.

Associate Professor, Hematology & Medical Oncology Division
Breast Cancer Program Director
OHSU, Knight Cancer Institute
Portland, Oregon

Scott Weiner, MD, MPH, FAAEM, FACEP, FASAM, is the McGraw Endowed Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an associate professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Weiner completed his residency training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and his MPH degree at Harvard School of Public Health. He is board-certified in emergency medicine and addiction medicine. He is an active researcher, working on multiple projects that focus on prevention and treatment of opioid use disorder.