Professor of Neurobiology and Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
saross@pitt.edu

The spinal cord plays a critical role in processing somatosensory information – touch, temperature, pain,a nd itch. Dr. Ross’ lab is interested in characterizing these spinal microcircuits.

Dr. Ross earned her B.Sc. from the University of Western Ontario and her PhD from the University of Michigan, both in psychology. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. She joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 2011.