Dr. Ben Arevalo earned a BA with honors in Human Biology at Stanford University. His work on his honors thesis titled, “Juvenile Crime Patterns and Community Affinity for Restorative Justice in Cape Town, South Africa” was recognized with the Edith and Norman Abrams Award for Excellence in Public Interest Advocacy. Ben then went east to Boston for Medical School at Harvard and simultaneously earned an MBA at the Harvard Business School. Ben went on to the University of Chicago Medical Center for his residency in Emergency Medicine where he also served as Chief Resident. He received the Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Emergency Medicine Ambassador Award from the University of Chicago. He came to UCSF for HPM fellowship and then joined the faculty in the DPM where he spent a year working in the SMS. Ben then went back to Boston to do a one-year fellowship this year in Interventional Pain Management at Massachusetts General Hospital. We are thrilled that Ben is coming back to UCSF to join the faculty with a joint appointment in the Division of Anesthesia Pain and the DPM. Ben's work in the DPM will focus on seeing patients in the SMS. He will work closely with the DPM to incorporate interventional pain techniques into the care of palliative care patients and further expand the opportunities to help our patients.