Don McGeary, Ph.D., ABPP, is the Wurzbach Distinguished Endowed Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio and a Research Health Scientist with the South Texas Veterans Health Care System. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from UT Southwestern Medical Center in 2003 and completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Health Psychology with the United States Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base, where he stayed until 2010. He is board certified in Clinical Health Psychology through ABPP.

Currently, Dr. McGeary is Professor with Tenure and Vice Chair for Research for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio and Vice Chair for the joint UT Health/VA Institutional Review Board. He developed and oversees specialty clinical services for mental health screening and treatment of individuals with polymorbid pain conditions (i.e., pain occurring in the context PTSD and TBI) and has developed novel services for psychological prehabilitation of individuals recommended for spinal injections or implantable technologies for chronic pain.

Dr. McGeary’s research focuses on applied clinical and pragmatic trials of interdisciplinary management for complex pain including neuropathic and musculoskeletal pain as well as headache. He is the Principal or Partner Principal Investigator of six active multisite clinical trials covering 20 sites across the United States with funding through the National Institutes of Health, the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He recently completed his term as the inaugural Programmatic Chair of the CDMRP Chronic Pain Management Research Program and chairs/co-chairs several NIH grant review panels focusing on pain management and the HEAL initiative. His published research has appeared in high impact Psychology (e.g., American Psychologist) and medical journals (e.g., JAMA Neurology).