GARY A. WALCO, PhD is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (adjunct Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Director of Pain Medicine at Seattle Children’s Hospital.  He has conducted multiple studies on pain treatment and assessment in children, with over 100 peer reviewed papers and book chapters in the area.  Dr. Walco was the founder of the American Pain Society’s first special interest group, focusing on Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents, and received their Jeffrey Lawson Award for Advocacy in Children’s Pain Relief (2003) and their Distinguished Service Award (2019).  Dr. Walco is a past chair of the Pain Committee for the Children’s Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance and served on the core committee for Palliative Care in the Children’s Oncology Group.  He was the president elect of the American Pain Society and is a past president of the special interest group on Pain in Childhood of the International Association for the Study of Pain.  Dr. Walco currently sits on editorial boards for Pain, the Journal of Pain, the Clinical Journal of Pain (past associate editor), and Frontiers in Pain Medicine (associate editor) and did so formerly for the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics and the Journal of Pediatric Psychology.  Dr. Walco is a founding member and currently on the Board of Directors for ChildKind International.  He has consulted on analgesic trials for children and served on the US FDA’s Analgesic and Anesthetic Drug Products Advisory Committee.