Dr. Hayes received his Pharm.D. and M.P.H. from UAMS in 2013 and practiced for 3 years, primarily functioning as the clinical pharmacist with the psychiatric treatment team on the two inpatient psychiatric units at Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. From 2016-2018, Dr. Hayes completed a NIDA funded T32 Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Translational Addiction Research. Dr. Hayes’s research has focused on evaluating opioid use and abuse in populations, and some of his previous works has been published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Health Services Research, Journal of Pain, and Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.