June Dahl, PhD

June Dahl is Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.  She received a PhD in Physical Chemistry and spent many years in basic research before turning her attention about twenty years ago to efforts to bring improvement in pain management.  Her focus on pain began when she was serving as Chair of Wisconsin’s Controlled Substances Board and co-founded the Wisconsin Cancer Pain Initiative with David Joranson.  She currently serves as advisor to the Alliance of State Pain Initiatives and remains involved in work directed at the knowledge, regulatory, and system barriers responsible for the undertreatment of pain.