C. Alan Lyles, MPH, ScD, RPh, is the Henry A. Rosenberg Professor of Public, Private, and Nonprofit Partnerships at the University of Baltimore (UB). He is a professor in the UB College of Public Affairs' Health Systems Management Program and a senior fellow in the Center on Drugs and Public Policy at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.

He is also a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a docent of pharmaceutical policy and pharmacoeconomics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. As an international expert, Lyles is widely published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and frequently is invited by Topics in Pain Management to provide comment on pharmacy and health care policy issues.

Disclosure: Dr. Lyles has consulted with government, nongovernmental organizations, and industry; however, this has not included pain management.