Loc Thang, MD, PhD

Department of Anesthesiology Featured Member: November 2021

Loc Thang, MD, PhD, was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States when he was a young boy.

He obtained his Master of Biomedical Engineering degree from the University of Michigan and then completed the MSTP program at Michigan State University.

He is an alumnus of the Department’s Academic Scholars Advancement Program (ASAP) where he completed his residency training, a pain medicine fellowship, and nearly two years of research time. Currently, he is an instructor of anesthesiology and pain management. He also has served as the associated program director of the pain medicine fellowship since 2020.

His main interest is to alleviate human suffering of pain through educating the next generation of pain physicians, caring for acute/chronic pain patients, and researching ways to understand how norepinephrine modulate moods/pain.

Loc enjoys spending time outdoors including traveling and skiing. One of his memorable adventures was three months he spent in Ghana researching plant medicine. In his spare time, Loc enjoys hanging out with his lovely wife, Kim, and his two energetic sons, Isaiah and Isaac. The boys love to spend time together making garden beds and digging holes for Kim to plant her many beautiful flowers.