Dr. Kyle Baumbauer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He received his Ph.D. from Kent State University in Experimental Psychology in 2005. Dr. Baumbauer was then a Postdoctoral Fellow at Texas A&M University (Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience) until 2011, followed by a second postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School in the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research (Neurobiology). In 2014, Dr. Baumbauer moved to the University of Connecticut, where he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing, until 2019 when he joined the faculty at KUMC. Dr. Baumbauer is a past Rita Allen Foundation Pain Fellow, and his work has been generously funded by the Rita Allen Foundation, the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.