Dustin Wallace, PhD, is the Director of Behavioral Health for the Rehabilitation for Amplified Pain Syndromes (RAPS) program, an intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment program for youth. His research primarily focuses on behavioral and nonpharmacological treatments for chronic pain in young people, biopsychosocial factors that maintain pain and/or contribute to pain-associated impairment, as well as parenting and family functioning for youth affected by medical conditions. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, and also serves as co-Chair of the Children's Mercy Hospital Institutional Review Board (IRB).