Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics, by courtesy
Chief of Pediatric Pain Management, Stanford University School of Medicine

Jennifer Rabbitts is Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, and Professor of Pediatrics, by courtesy, at Stanford University. Dr. Rabbitts serves as Chief of Pediatric Pain Management at Stanford University School of Medicine. She directs an NIH-funded laboratory that conducts research devoted to understanding and preventing chronic postsurgical pain. Her research program focuses on identifying risk and resilience factors that influence recovery after surgery, examining acute and chronic pain after surgery, and developing treatments to improve long-term pain and health outcomes and reduce reliance on opioids in adolescents undergoing major surgery. She serves as section editor for Psychology, Psychiatry and Brain Neuroscience Section for Pain Medicine, and on the editorial boards for Pediatric Anesthesia and Journal of Pain. Dr. Rabbitts is passionate about mentoring clinician-scientists in anesthesiology and training the next generation of pediatric pain clinicians and researchers.