Jane C. Ballantyne, MD, FRCA, professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine, University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Ballantyne is coeditor of Expert Decision Making on Opioid Treatments and president of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, SupportPROP.org.
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