Allan Irwin Basbaum is a Canadian-American medical researcher, and professor and chair of the Department of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the

Institute of Medicine The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly called the Institute of Medicine (IoM) until 2015, is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Medicine is a part of the National Academies of Sciences, E ...

. and a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom. From 2003 to 2012 he was editor-in-chief of ''

Pain Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, ...

'', the journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain. He was elected a member of the

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in April 2019.

Education

BSc - McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
PhD - University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
PostDoc - University College London, London, UK
PostDoc - University California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

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