Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Management
UT Southwestern Medical Center/ Children Medical Center, Dallas
Dr. Rebstock did her undergraduate work at Jacksonville University (Jacksonville, Florida) in 1992, and went on to receive a Master's Degree at the University of Florida ( Gainesville, Florida) in 1994 in Nutritional Biochemistry, having completed a human study in Folic Acid Absorption at 2 stages of human gestation within the Clinical Research Center at U.F. In 1994. Dr. Rebstock worked at Hoechst Pharmaceautical division doing research into collagen formation inhibition in the cirrhotic liver. She attended Medical School at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz and did her doctoral research at the Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich looking at gap junction communication in the microvasculature.
Dr. Rebstock did her residency and fellowship at Penn State Hershey Medical Center and Collage of Medicine, working with Dr. David Sherry and Dr. John Rose in Pediatric Pain Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as part of her training. She went on to be an attending anesthesiologist at Penn State and develop the first pediatric pain service/ clinic at Penn State Children's Hospital. In 2011, Dr. Rebstock was recruited at the Children's National Medical Center as director of pediatric pain medicine, and as a principal Investigator in the Sheikh Zayed Institute of Pediatric Surgical Innovation. She was then recruited to be Chief of pediatric anesthesiology with Envision Physician Services to be pediatric site director for their residency. Dr. Rebstock has been at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center since 2019 as an associate professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Management. She has an appointment with the Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture where she continues her folic acid research in Anesthesia and the developing brain and is the founder of a videogaming technology project for pain rehabilitation and monitoring, where she is running research into the effects of immersion technology on the autonomic nervous system and pain.