Bennet Davis, MD

Bennet Davis is board certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine. His work focuses on integrating recent discoveries about how a patient's life experiences affect pain into frontline primary care settings. Currently, he serves as a consultant for Providence Northern California, helping establish a clinical and teaching pain program in a rural setting.

Davis has spent decades developing innovative, interdisciplinary models for pain care. From 1995 to 2002, he founded and directed the University of Arizona Pain Center, where he also directed the Pain Fellowship Program and was a co-founding faculty member of the Arizona Cancer Center. In 2002, he co-founded The Integrative Pain Center of Arizona, which operated until 2017 as one of the nation's few models for comprehensive pain care and became the state’s first adult pain clinic to be named an American Pain Society Center of Excellence. He then directed the Pain Recovery Program at Sierra Tucson from 2017 to 2024, focusing on psychological approaches to treating pain, while practicing as a staff physician in Tucson through 2025.

Davis continues his academic and research career as a senior associate with the International Foundation for Integrated Care. He also collaborates with the University of Arizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Center for Pain & Addiction. In 2026, he co-authored a study in a peer-reviewed journal examining how primary care providers screen chronic pain patients for psychological trauma.

Davis completed his undergraduate degree at Stanford University and earned his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University. He completed residency training in orthopedic surgery and anesthesiology at the University of New Mexico and the University of California, Irvine, followed by a fellowship in Manchester, England.