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Roberta Teixera Tallarico, MB
Medical School: Escola Superior de Ciencias da Saude
Carolyn Thai, DO
Medical School: Klirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine
Internship: Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
Loc Thang, MD, PhD
Medical School: Michigan State University
Internship: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
Loc Thang, MD, PhD
Instructor, Anesthesiology and Pain Management
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.
Jeremy Thompson, MD, PhD
Texas Tech University HSC, School of Medicine
* ASAP
Jeremy Thompson, MD
Pain Medicine Fellow (2022-23)
Medical School: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
Residency: WashU Medicine — Anesthesiology
Jeremy Thompson, MD, PhD
Instructor in Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology Featured Member: October 2025
Jeremy Thompson, MD, PhD, is an Instructor in Anesthesiology in the Division of Pain Management and a member of the Washington University Pain Center, conducting research in Meaghan Creed’s Laboratory on how chronic pain reshapes mesolimbic dopamine circuitry with a focus on SK channel regulation in VTA→NAc neurons. He earned a BE in biomedical engineering from Vanderbilt University, completed his MD/PhD in translational neuroscience at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and then finished anesthesiology residency and pain medicine fellowship at WashU Medicine through the Academic Scholars Advancement Program. He is currently supported by the FAER Alison Cole Endowed Mentored Research Training Grant. Outside of work, he enjoys playing with his cat, baking, building LEGO sets, and running in Forest Park.