Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Neurological Surgery and Neurology at University of California, San Francisco. As a neurologist and pain management specialist, he studies basic brain and spinal mechanisms of pain using invasive neurophysiology and electrical stimulation. The primary goal of his laboratory is to clarify how distributed circuits across the brain process the physical, emotional and cognitive elements of real-world chronic pain. Having discovered the first-in-human objective biomarkers for chronic pain with brain recordings, his lab is actively developing new therapies for chronic pain using personalized, adaptive brain stimulation.