Please join us in welcoming Lingyong Li, Ph.D., to the UAB Heersink School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine as an Associate Professor. Dr. Li joins our department from Baylor University where he served as an Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator.

Li’s research interests include chronic pain, comorbid psychiatric disorders in chronic pain, and opioid analgesic tolerance. Li brings several R01 grants and will be the Principal Investigator of the Li Lab here at UAB. The Li Lab will focus on synaptic and neural mechanisms of chronic pain, chronic pain-induced psychiatric disorders, opioid analgesic tolerance, and translational studies in chronic pain management.

We are excited to welcome Dr. Li to our team!