Sean Mackey

Sean Mackey is the Redlich Professor, Chief of the Stanford Division of Pain Medicine, and Director of the Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab (SNAPL) at Stanford University. Dr. Mackey completed his undergraduate and Masters Studies in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, and received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering and subsequently his MD at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. He went to Stanford for his Anesthesiology residency, his fellowship in Pain Medicine, and then joined Stanford’s faculty.

The Pain Division mission is to “Predict, Prevent and Alleviate Pain through Science, Education and Compassion”. As Director of SNAPL (http://snapl.stanford.edu/), Dr. Mackey’s primary research interest involves the use of advanced research techniques such as functional and structural neuroimaging, psychophysics and neurobehavioral assessment, to investigate the neural processing of pain and neuronal plasticity in patients with chronic pain. He has served as principal investigator for multiple NIH grants. More recently, he is leading a team-science effort to develop objective biomarkers of chronic pain (NIH R61/R33).

Dr. Mackey serves on multiple editorial boards, has published over 300 articles and book chapters, and annually presents papers and lectures at national and international Pain Medicine, Neuroscience and Anesthesiology meetings.