Board of Advisors

William Schmidt, PhD
Pain Researcher
President of NorthStar Consulting


Chris Christie
Former New Jersey Governor
Former Chairman of the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis


A. Thomas McLellan, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania


Patrick J. Kennedy
Former U.S. Congressman
Founder of The Kennedy Forum, a national mental health nonprofit


Paul Mango
Former Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Previous Senior Partner leading McKinsey’s Global Health Care Practice


Major General (Ret.) Gale S. Pollock, CRNA, FACHE, FAAN
Former Commander of the US Army Medical Command
Former Acting Surgeon General of the Army
Safe Pain Treatment Advocate


Christopher Gharibo, MD
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine as well as
Orthopedics at New York University College of Medicine
Medical Director of Pain Medicine; NYU Langone Hospitals Center


Alan W. Dunton, MD
Former President
Janssen Research Foundation at Johnson and Johnson


Bob Rappaport, MD
Former FDA Director
Division of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Addiction Products


Sandra Comer, PhD
Professor of Clinical Neurobiology
Columbia University


Jack Uetrecht, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
University of Toronto


Roger Fillingim, PhD
Professor of College of Dentistry
University of Florida