Anita Gupta, DO, MPP, GMP, PharmD, FASA is the first woman physician anesthesiologist to co-chair the American Society of Anesthesiologist Committee on Prescription Opioid Abuse. She is a professor of medical education and lead of the Ideas Innovation Lab at the California University of Sciences and Medicine. In addition to this, she is a practicing anesthesiologist, pain medicine specialist, pharmacist and adjunct professor of anesthesiology, critical care, and pain medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Gupta was appointed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the FDA to lead the expansion of naloxone in the U.S.