Mark C. Bicket, MD, PhD, is a pain physician and health policy researcher at the University of Michigan, where he is an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Anesthesiology and Health Management & Policy, and a member of the Division of Pain Research. He co-directs the Overdose Prevention Engagement Network (OPEN), a program serving the state of Michigan to prevent overdoses and reduce the harms of opioids.
His research examines how acute and chronic pain are treated, how opioids are prescribed around surgery, and how those decisions affect patients long afterward. Much of this work draws on large statewide data that link surgical records with prescribing information to answer practical questions: how much pain medication patients actually use after an operation, when prescribing leads to lasting opioid use, and how screening and policy can make care safer. His studies have appeared in JAMA, The BMJ, and Annals of Surgery, and his research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research.
Bicket has also worked at the intersection of science and public policy. He served as a fellow in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2019 to 2020, where he helped lead a national research roadmap to address the opioid crisis, coordinating efforts across seventeen government entities. From 2022 to 2026 he was a voting member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee, which advises the agency on the evaluation of pain and anesthetic medications.
He earned his MD at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he also served as chief resident in anesthesiology, and completed fellowship training in pain medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed his PhD at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, was named an ASRA Pain Medicine Presidential Scholar in 2024, and received the ASA James E. Cottrell, MD, Presidential Scholar Award in 2025.