Dr. Flavia P. Kapos earned her DDS degree at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She complete her residency in Orofacial Pain and her MS degree at the University of Minnesota. She then achieved her PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Washington and her postdoctoral fellowship at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke University. Her interests include the identification of how the social environment contributes to chronic pain over the course of a life time and informing innovative system-level actions (e.g., communities, healthcare systems, policies) to improve pain prevention and management for all people.