I am a primary care internist, health services researcher, chief of general internal medicine at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, and professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. My professional goal is to improve the management of chronic pain in primary care. I conduct research that is informed by my practice as a primary care physician and by engagement with patients who have chronic pain. My current research focuses on patient-centered outcomes of opioid tapering and care of patients prescribed long-term opioids for chronic pain. I completed medical school and internal medicine residency at the University of Minnesota and received my MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar.