An Interview With Founding Director Myron A. Hirsch
The first night, ten years ago, that Myron A. Hirsch put the Afternoon Edition, the Facial Pain Research Foundation’s web newspaper, online, he received an email.
An Interview with Dr. Orion P. Keifer
Orion P. Keifer, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., is Vice President for discovery and translation at CODA Biotherapeutics Inc. in South San Francisco, California. He is a neuroscientist with neurosurgical expertise in small and large animal models, focused on small molecule, biologics, and cell and gene therapies for neurological diseases.
An Interview With Founding Director Michael Pasternak
Michael Pasternak, Ph.D., is a Founding Director of the Facial Pain Research Foundation. Dr. Pasternak spoke with Mervyn Rothstein, who was an editor and writer at The New York Times for 30 years.
An Interview With Dr. Cory R. Nicholas
Cory R. Nicholas, Ph.D., is a co-founder and chief scientific officer of Neurona Therapeutics. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco.
An Interview With Dr. Wolfgang Liedtke
Wolfgang Liedtke, M.D., Ph. D., is a professor in the Departments of Neurology, Anesthesiology and Neurobiology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
An Interview With Research Director Douglas K. Anderson, Ph.D.
In 2018 Douglas K. Anderson was the recipient of the US Congressional Certificate of Recognition and The University of Florida McKnight Brain Institute established the Douglas K. Anderson Facial Pain Research Program to fund future research to find cures for TN and neuropathic pain.
An Interview With Dr. Todd Golde
Todd E. Golde, M.D., Ph.D., is executive director of the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida. He oversees neuroscience and neuromedicine research programs across the University of Florida campus.
An Interview With Dr. John Neubert
John K. Neubert, D.D.S., Ph.D., is the principal investigator for the scientific research project entitled Mapping Towards a Cure: Identification of Neurophysiologic Signatures of Trigeminal Neuralgia Pain
An Interview With Dr. Allan Basbaum
Dr. Basbaum spoke by telephone from San Francisco with Mervyn Rothstein, who was an editor and writer at The New York Times for 29 years before retiring in 2010.
An Interview With Dr. Kim Burchiel
"I’m more committed to solving the problem than I am to any particular solution. So if it turns out that we can discover the origins of this condition it may well be that surgery may not be the ultimate answer."