Dr. Poree is medical director at the Pain Clinic of Monterey Bay and Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of California at San Francisco where he trains pain fellows in neuromodulation techniques. He also serves on the board of the North American Neuromodulation Society where he co-authored the NANS neuromodulation training guidelines and the S.A.F.E. principles for incorporating neuromodulation technologies in pain algorithms. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in Toxicology and went on to do a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical engineering and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University where he studied spinal modulation of the sympathetic nervous system. He completed medical school and anesthesia residency at Stanford University and his pain fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco.