Dr. Furnish is Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at UC San Diego where he is associate chief of the pain division, associate program director of the pain fellowship, and director of the inpatient pain service. His practice includes high-risk peri-operative pain, cancer-related pain, and chronic pain management. Dr. Furnish has a master’s degree in social work from the University of Kansas and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He completed both his anesthesia residency and pain medicine fellowship at UC San Diego. He has studied, published, and lectured on post-operative pain management, gabapentin and opioid-related risks in inpatients, intrathecal drug delivery, the use of cannabinoids for the treatment of pain, and classical psychedelics and analgesia.