Jocelyn Jiao is a movement disorders trained neurologist and a subspecialty trained palliative care specialist; she hails from the Bay Area in Northern California, though she has completed parts of her medical training throughout the United States (New York City, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon). Her primary academic interest is the promotion and development of palliative care for people living with Parkinson's disease and other serious neurological illnesses. She will be joining the faculty at Stanford University in the fall.

A chemist and mathematician, Dr. Kosek is a certified principle investigator through the Association of Clinical Research Professionals and has been involved in more than 25 pain-related clinical trials.

After receiving his medical degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Kosek completed his residency in anesthesiology at Stanford, which included research in neurobiology. He then joined the faculty at Stanford as a cardiac anesthesiologist. He then joined Oregon Health & Science University as a member of the adult and pediatric cardiac anesthesia faculty and was an interterm director of pain management.

In 1998 he moved to Eugene, Oregon where he focused on pain management full time and founded Pain Consultants of Oregon. He joined Oregon Neurosurgery in 2017 after closing Pain Consultants of Oregon.