Lori Kiefer, MD, is a board-certified anesthesiologist and fellowship-trained, board-eligible pain medicine specialist at Southern Pain and Spine. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana. She then attended Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she was awarded a Doctor of Medicine degree. After medical school, Dr. Kiefer completed her anesthesiology internship and residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. She then practiced as an anesthesiologist for nine years in Bloomington, Indiana. She decided to pursue further training in pain medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine's multidisciplinary pain medicine fellowship.