Dr. Simon Haroutounian is a Professor of Anesthesiology, and the Chief of Division of Clinical and Translational Research in the Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, USA. As a clinical pharmacist, he helps patients with chronic pain optimize their medications. 

Dr. Haroutounian has obtained his B.Sc.Pharm, M.Sc in Clinical Pharmacy, and his PhD degrees from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed a Fulbright doctoral fellowship in pain outcomes research at the University of Utah, and a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical pain research at the Danish Pain Research Center in Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark. 

His laboratory at Washington University is focused on investigating clinically relevant pain mechanisms, and developing personalized approaches for prevention and treatment of chronic neuropathic pain.