Dr. Chad Brummett co-directs the Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network, or Michigan-OPEN, an initiative that seeks to transform pain management and curb opioid abuse in the state of Michigan. Based at the University of Michigan Medical School and Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, it is a five-year initiative funded by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Brummett is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan, the director of the Division of Pain Research and, more broadly, is the Director of Clinical Research in the Department of Anesthesiology. He studies perioperative opioid use and opioid-related outcomes, informing his work with Michigan-OPEN. In addition, his research interests include predictors of acute and chronic post-surgical pain and failure to derive benefit for interventions and surgeries done primarily for pain. Brummett earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at Indiana University followed by anesthesiology residency at the University of Michigan and a pain medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.