After two years of juggling part-time roles at separate institutions, I bid farewell to my dear colleagues at Kaiser Permanente and began a full-time role at Stanford University. I assumed multiple leadership roles during my near 15 years with the Stanford Division of Pain Medicine. I was Program Director of the Stanford Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Pain Program (SCIPP), one of the few academic inpatient pain programs in the United States. SCIPP was an immensely rewarding experience, as I was able to work with an interdisciplinary team of specialists to help individuals living in pain reduce their consumption of opioid medication and instead utilize non-pharmacologic strategies to manage their conditions. I was the first Psychologist to be appointed to the role of Assistant Division Chief, a position that was historically held by a physician. To address the dearth of Psychologists formally trained to work in the arena of pain, I developed a Pain Psychology Fellowship that became fully accredited by the American Psychological Association and served as its Training Director.  As Director of Psychological Services, I oversaw the expansion of Pain Psychology offerings in both the inpatient and outpatient settings: by the time I departed Stanford, the Division of Pain Medicine had expanded its Psychology faculty and trainee FTEs by more than 500% compared to when I started.

​Outside the realm of pain, I was actively engaged in clinician wellness endeavors. In this domain, I served on Stanford Hospital's Physician Wellness Committee; was co-Director of  the Peer Support and Resiliency in Medicine (PRIME) Program, the Stanford Department of Anesthesiology's Resident Wellness Program; and developed and implemented the first Fellow Wellness Program within the Stanford Division of Pain Medicine. 

Delivered the only talk on behavioral approaches to pain management at a hospital in Shenzhen, China