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Dr. Gebhart is Director of the newly established Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research and Professor, Anesthesiology, Pain Research at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, Dr. Gebhart was professor and head, Department of Pharmacology, the University of Iowa. He earned his Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Iowa. After two years of study at the Universite de Montreal, Dr. Gebhart joined the faculty in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Iowa as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor and then to professor. Dr. Gebhart’s research has focused on mechanisms and modulation of pain. Dr. Gebhart received a five-year Bristol Myers Award for Excellence in Pain Research, a Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Frederick W.L. Kerr Award from the American Pain Society, the Kappa Delta Elizabeth Winston-Lanier Award from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, the John J. Bonica Award from the American Society for Regional Anesthesia, and the Distinguished Service Award from the American Pain Society. Dr. Gebhart is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Pain, chair of the Editorial Board of the book series Pain Research and Clinical Management, has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers, and has served on national research advisory committees, editorial boards, and committees of international scientific organizations. | 