Allan I. Basbaum  | |
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| Born | October 18, 1947  Montreal, Quebec, Canada  | 
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| Employer | University of California San Francisco | 
| Known for | Neurobiology of Pain | 
| Title | Neuroscientist | 
Allan Irwin Basbaum is a Canadian-American medical researcher, and professor and chair of the Department of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco. [1] [2] He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine. [3] and a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom. From 2003 to 2012 he was editor-in-chief of Pain , the journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in April 2019. [4]
BSc - McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
 PhD - University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
 PostDoc - University College London, London, UK
 PostDoc - University California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA