Prof. Karin N Westlund, PhD, Professor (tenured) and Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine. Her secondary appointment is in the Department of Neuroscience, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, USA. Her overall research career aim is to stop pain through pursuit of pain relief mechanisms and development of therapies for testing in chronic neuropathic pain models. She held the President’s Research Professorship at the University of Kentucky (2009–2017) and received the Frederick W.L. Kerr Career Research Award, American Pain Association 27th American Pain Society Meeting, “Stopping Pain in Its Tracks”, Tampa, Florida, 10 May 2008. Since 2005, she has served as Associate Editor/Reviewer for PAIN (official journal for the International Association for the Study of Pain).