49th Annual Regional Anesthesiology
and Acute Pain Medicine Meeting

March 21-23, 2024 | San Diego, California

#ASRASPRING24

Faculty

Sanjib Adhikary, MD, MBBS; Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
Brian Allen, MD; Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Jaime Baratta, MD; Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Margaretha Barbara Breebaart, MD, PhD; University Hospital Antwerp, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Melissa Byrne, DO, MPH; Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI
Stephanie Cheng, MD, DABMA; Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Ki-Jinn Chin, MBBS, FANZCA, FRCPC; Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Steven Cohen, MD; Johns Hopkins, Clarksville, MD
Javier Cubillos, MD; Western University/ London Health Sciences Center, London, ON, Canada
Juan Carlos de la Cuadra, MD; LASRA/ Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH; American Medical Association, Milwaukee, WI
Nabil Elkassabany, MD, MSCE; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Michael Fettiplace, MD, PhD; University of Illinois Health, Chicago, IL
John Finneran IV, MD; University of California, San Diego, CA
Denise Fraga, MD, MPA; Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital, Charlotte, NC
Rodney Gabriel, MD, MAS; University of California, San Diego, CA
Veena Graff, MD; University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Stuart Grant, MD, ChB, MMCI; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Rajnish Gupta, MD; Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
David Hardman, MD, MBA; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
T. Kyle Harrison, MD; Stanford University and VA Palo Alto, CA
Ronald Harter, MD, FASA; American Society of Anesthesiologists, Chicago, IL
Stephen Haskins, MD; Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Melody Herman, MD; Scope Anesthesia of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC
Nadia Hernandez, MD; McGovern School of Medicine at University of Texas Health, Houston, TX
Rosemary Hogg, MD; Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Maggie Holtz, MD;Georgia Anesthesiologists, P.C., Marietta, GA
Barys Ihnatsenka, MD; University of Florida Health, Newberry, FL
Brian Ilfeld, MD, MS;University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Vivian Ip, MD; University of Alberta Hospital, Alberta, Canada
Rebecca Johnson, MD;Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Jerry Jones, MD; East Memphis Anesthesia Services/ University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Collierville, TN
Hari Kalagara, MD, FCARCSI, EDRA; Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Brinda Kamdar, MD; Massachusetts General Hospital, Lexington, MA
Michelle Kars, MD, FAAP; Cohen Children’s Medical Center/Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, NY
James Kim, MD; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Carrollton, TX
Kyle Kirkham, MD; University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Meghan Kirksey, MD, PhD; Hospital for Special Surgery/ Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Justin Ko, MD, PhD; Sungkyunkwan University/Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea
Lynn Kohan, MD; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Sree Kolli, MD, EDRA; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Sandra Kopp, MD; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Kwesi Kwofie, MD, FRCPC; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Jody Leng, MD, MS; VA Palo Alto/Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, CA
Linda Le-Wendling, MD; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Jiabin Liu, MD, PhD; Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Alan MacFarlane, BSc (Hons),MRCP, FRCA, EDRA; Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Robert Maniker, MD, MSc; Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
William Manson, MD; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Edward Mariano, MD, MAS; Stanford University School of Medicine, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA
Colin McCartney, MBChB, PhD; University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Stavros Memtsoudis, MD, PhD;Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Joshua Miller, MD; Surgical Directions, Charlotte, NC
Eleni Moka, MD, PhD, MSc, EDRA; Creta Interclinic Hospital, Heraklion, Greece
Arun Nagdev, MD; Highland Hospital/ University of California, San Francisco, CA
Samer Narouze, MD, PhD; Western Reserve Hospital, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Olga Nin, MD; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Jennifer Noerenberg, MD; Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Poway, CA
Anahi Perlas, MD, FRCPC; Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada
Carlos Pino, MD, FASA; Uniformed Services University, San Diego, CA
Steven Porter, MD; Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
David Provenzano, MD; Pain Diagnostics and Interventional Care, Sewickley, PA
Bridget Pulos, MD; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Reva Ramlogan, BSc, MBBS; The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Christopher Reid, MD; University of California, San Diego, CA
Meg Rosenblatt, MD; Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and West Hospitals, New York, NY
Engy Said, MD; University of California, San Diego, CA
Kristin Schreiber, MD, PhD; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical, Boston, MA
Mark Schultzel, MD, MBA; United Medical Doctors, San Diego, CA
Gary Schwartz, MD; Maimonides Medical Center, Melville, NY
Eric Schwenk, MD; Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Ashley Shilling, MD; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Cynthia Shum, DNP, Med, BScN; VA Palo Alto, CA
Sanjay Sinha, MD; St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT
Brian Sites, MD; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Plainfield, NH
Ellen Soffin, MD; Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Rakesh Sondekoppam Vijayashankar, MBBS; University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
David Spiegel, MD; Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Christopher Tanaka, MD; Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Tiffany Tedore, MD; Weill Cornell Medicine New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
Ban Tsui, MD, MSc; Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Vishal Uppal, MBBS, MSc, FRCA; Dalhousie University, Canada
Eugene Viscusi, MD; Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Gina Votta-Velis, MD, PhD; University of Illinois Chicago, IL
Marissa Weber, MD; Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
Sylvia Wilson, MD; Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Christopher Wu, MD; Hospital for Special Surgery/ Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Jeff Xu, MD; Westchester Medical Center/ New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY
Yury Zasimovich, MD; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Associate Faculty

Christopher Ciarallo, MD; Elk River Anesthesia Associates, Steamboat Springs, CO
Luara Giron-Arango, MD; Toronto Western Hospital / University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Deirdre Kelleher, MD; Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Amanda Kumar, MD; Duke University Medical Center, Hillsborough, NC
Anthony Machi, MD; Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
Melissa Masaracchia, MD; Northwell Cohen Children’s Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY
Monika Nanda, MD; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Jaime Ortiz, MD, MBA; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Stephanie Pan, MD; Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
Michael Patzkowski, MD; Brook Army Medical Center, Ft. Sam Houston, TX
Sharon Peacock, MD; Sinai Health System, Mount Sinai, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cameron Smith, MD, PhD; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Joanne Tan, MD, FANZCA; Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia
Hanae Tokita, MD, FASA; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Ansara Vaz, MD; Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY


Dr. Sanjib Adhikary

Sanjib Adhikary, MD, MBBS, is a professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine at Penn State College of Medicine. He has been actively practicing regional anesthesia and pain medicine for more than 15 years after fellowship training in regional anesthesia and neuroanesthesia. Presently, Dr. Adhikary serves as the vice chair for research and innovation in his department, with a couple of patents and a number of funding from NIH and DOD. He is actively involved with research related to pain medicine. Daily, he deals with regional anesthesia procedures for acute pain management in his clinical practice. He teaches ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia to residents and faculty regularly as a part of his daily job and also during different workshops. Since the year 2009, he has been an instructor for advanced ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia workshops at American Society of Regional Anesthesia meetings and Canadian Anesthesia Society annual meetings. Dr. Adhikary loves what he does for a living. [top]


Dr. Brian Allen

Brian Allen, MD, is an associate professor and the RAAPM fellowship director at Vanderbilt where he previously directed the acute pain service. His 20 PubMed-cited publications center on trauma care, enhanced recovery, & question-based education. He is an ABA MOCA Minute committee member & an ASA-SEA distinguished educator. He serves in leadership in the AASPD and Regional Anesthesia Fellowship Directors Association & is an AUA member. He feels honored to have found such an amazing, supportive community in the RAAPM field & in ASRA Pain Medicine specifically. [top]


Dr. Jaime Baratta

Jaime Baratta, MD, is an associate professor of anesthesiology and director of regional anesthesia, as well as the director of the regional anesthesia and acute pain fellowship in the department of anesthesiology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. She received her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College. After serving five years as a medical officer in the United States Navy, she completed her residency and fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University. She is the vice-chair of the ASRA Wellness Special Interest Group, serves on the ASRA Faculty Development Committee, and serves as the regional anesthesia faculty advisor on the ASRA Resident Section Committee. [top]


Barbara Breebaart

Margaretha Barbara Breebaart, MD, PhD, has a special interest in regional anesthesia, education, and communication. She finished her PhD in spinal anesthesia in ambulatory surgery. She is certified in medical hypnotic communication and is a comfort talk trainer and teaches communication skills to medical students. She currently follows Lifespan Psychology. Her newest projects are positive communication and improvisational theatre as a teaching tool in the medical curriculum.  In her free time, she is a mother of three, likes cycling and running, and does improvisational theatre. [top]


Dr. Melissa Byrne

Melissa Byrne, DO, MPH, is a graduate of Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. After residency in anesthesiology at the University of Michigan, she worked in private practice in Virginia before returning to her home in Michigan to complete a fellowship in Regional and Ambulatory Anesthesia. Her interests include resident education and Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS). She has recently been named assistant director for POCUS where she is active in curriculum development. [top]


Dr. Stephanie Cheng

Stephanie Cheng, MD, DABMA, FAAMA, completed her anesthesiology residency at Yale and her regional anesthesia and acute pain management fellowship at Hospital for Special Surgery. In addition to her regional anesthesiology practice, she is also a board-certified medical acupuncturist and serves as the Director of the Perioperative Integrative Medicine program at HSS where she has been successful in integrating medical acupuncture as part of a multimodal approach to post-operative pain control. She has also won national competitions for her work in acupuncture research. [top]


Dr. Ki-Jinn Chin

Ki Jinn Chin, MBBS, FANZCA, FRCPC, is a professor in the department of anesthesiology & pain medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada. He completed medical school at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., and anesthesiology training in Singapore. He is deeply interested in ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia to improve patient care and outcomes, and is widely published in this field. He is actively involved in regional anesthesia education and hosts a YouTube channel dedicated to this (https://www.youtube.com/user/gasgenie). [top]


Christopher Ciarallo, MD, is an adult and pediatric anesthesiologist in private practice. He was previously an associate professor at The University of Colorado and director of pediatric anesthesia at Denver Health. He has managed an academic acute pain service, established a pediatric ambulatory catheter program, and directed ultrasound- guided regional anesthesia workshops since 2007. He is an APPLIED examiner for the ABA, and his interests include regional anesthesia in pediatrics and trauma. [top]


Dr. Steven P. Cohen

Steven P. Cohen, MD, is professor of anesthesiology & critical care medicine, neurology, physical medicine & rehabilitation and psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is also Chief of Pain Medicine and Director of Pain Operations at Johns Hopkins and Director of Pain Research at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Dr. Cohen has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in journals such as Lancet, JAMA, BMJ, CMAJ, Anesthesiology, Pain and New England Journal of Medicine. Among his major contributions are the development of an FDA-approved denervation technique for treating sacroiliac joint pain, helping set up the first pain clinic in a war zone, inventing the IV ketamine test, performing the first studies evaluating the epidural administration of biological agents for pain and serving as Senior Investigator on the congressionally mandated study evaluating compounded topical creams for chronic pain. He has served as Chair on international committees developing guidelines on ketamine for acute and chronic pain management, lumbar and cervical facet joint guidelines, and pain management during COVID. His work was instrumental in the passage of the 2008 Military Pain Care Act. In the past few years, ExpertScape listed Dr. Cohen as the #1 lor #2 leading pain expert in the world based on a complex formula that includes the number and quality of publications and the number of citations. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Cohen is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army. [top]


Javier Cubillos

Javier Cubillos, MD, completed his anesthesiology residency at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia followed by fellowship training in regional anesthesia and obstetric, both at the University of Toronto. From 2012 to 2018, he served as assistant professor of anesthesiology in the Hospital San Ignacio and Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia. Currently, he is back in Canada as an assistant professor in the department of anesthesia & perioperative medicine of Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. [top]


Dr. Maxim Eckmann

Maxim Eckmann, MD, is the Ramamurthy Endowed Professor of Pain Medicine and interim chair of the department of anesthesiology at the University of Texas Health San Antonio. Dr. Eckmann has been an academic pain physician since 2008 and has served many societies and entities in a leadership capacity. He is past president of the Texas Pain Society, co-chair of the ASRA Pain Medicine CME Committee, past chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Pain Education Track Subcommittee, examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiologists, and chief executive officer for iKare Mood Trauma and Recovery Clinic.

Dr. Eckmann has served as the director of translational research and vice chair of clinical research for his department. His special interests include joint denervation and neuroanatomy, central and peripheral neuromodulation, medical education, and executive health leadership. [top]


Jesse Ehrenfeld

Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, was inaugurated as president of the American Medical Association (AMA) in June 2023. Upon his inauguration, Dr. Ehrenfeld made AMA history as the first openly gay president of the organization. For the past two decades, he has been a nationally recognized advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals.

Dr. Ehrenfeld is a graduate of Phillips Academy, Haverford College, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed an internship in internal medicine, a residency in anesthesiology, and a research informatics fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Board-certified in both anesthesiology and clinical informatics, Dr. Ehrenfeld is a fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Medical Informatics Association. 

He is a senior associate dean, tenured professor of anesthesiology, and director of the “Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment” at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He also has an appointment as an adjunct professor of anesthesiology and health policy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennesse, and as an adjunct professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dr. Ehrenfeld is a consultant to the World Health Organization Digital Health Technical Advisory Group and previously served as co-chair of the Navy Surgeon General’s Taskforce on Personalized and Digital Medicine and as a special advisor to the 20th U.S. Surgeon General. A combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan during both Operation Enduring Freedom and Resolute Support Mission, Dr. Ehrenfeld, for his work in capturing and supporting the lives of LGBTQ+ people, was recognized in 2015 with a White House News Photographers Association award and, in 2016, with an Emmy nomination.

His work has led to the publication of more than 275 peer-reviewed manuscripts. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Systems and has co-authored 22 clinical textbooks that have been translated into multiple languages.

Dr. Ehrenfeld divides his time among clinical practice and directing a $511-million health philanthropy. Dr. Ehrenfeld’s research, which focuses on understanding how information technology can improve surgical safety and patient outcomes, has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, and the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research. He currently serves on the National Academy of Medicine’s Health Policy Fellowships and Leadership Programs Advisory Committee. [top]


Dr. Nabil Elkassabany

Nabil Elkassabany, MD, MSCE, MBA, is the John C Rowlingson Professor of Anesthesiology and the vice chair of clinical operations in the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia. Dr. Elkassabany did his undergraduate and medical education in Alexandria University. He was then appointed as a faculty in the department of Anesthesiology, Menoufia University, Egypt. He completed his anesthesia residency training at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio and his regional anesthesia subspecialty training at the University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida. He earned a master degree in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics in December 2012 from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and had his MBA in December 2021 from the Fox School of Business, Temple University in Philadelphia. Dr Elkassabany was the division chief of regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 2010-2022. His research interest focuses on patients’ outcomes after orthopedic surgery, specifically patient who receives regional anesthesia in different clinical settings. He is especially interested improving patient outcomes after major joint arthroplasty and defining the value added by regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine to patients’ perioperative experience. Nabil is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA). He also chairs educational track subcommittee on regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine at the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA).  [top]


Michael Fettiplace

Michael Fettiplace, MD, PhD, is a clinician scientist at the University of Illinois, investigating safe dosing of local anesthetics.  He completed his MD/PhD with Dr. Guy Weinberg studying the mechanism of lipid resuscitation and currently serves as chair of ASRA Pain Medicine’s workgroup on LAST.  His research (Fettiplace et al 2015, Ann Emerg Med) serves as the basis of clinical recommendations for lipid emulsion dosing from multiple professional societies including ASRA (Neal et al 2018, Reg Anesth Pain Med) and the American College of Medical Toxicology.  [top]


Dr. John Finneran

John Finneran IV, MD, is an associate professor in the department of anesthesiology and division of regional anesthesia and acute pain at University of California, San Diego. He completed his residency and fellowship training at UC San Diego and now serves as the associate program director of the UCSD anesthesiology residency program.

Dr. Finneran has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His research areas of interest include regional anesthesia in trauma and burn populations, phantom limb pain, and cryoneurolysis and electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves. [top]


Dr. Denise Fraga

Denise Fraga, MD, MPA, is a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine Charlotte Campus and the Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography (AEMUS) Fellowship Director. She completed an ultrasound fellowship at Vanderbilt Medical Center, a certification in Critical Care Echocardiography (CCEeXAM), and board certification in Focused Practice Designation (FPD) in Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography (AEMUS).  [top]


Dr. Rodney Gabriel

Rodney Gabriel, MD, MAS, is an associate professor (In Residence) of anesthesiology and adjunct associate professor in Biomedical Informatics at the University of California, San Diego. He is the director of perioperative informatics, chief of the division of regional anesthesia, and clinical director of anesthesiology at the Koman Outpatient Pavilion Ambulatory Surgery Center. His research expertise is in applying artificial intelligence concepts into perioperative medicine, including machine learning-based predictive modeling and natural language processing. Dr. Gabriel is actively involved in the acute and chronic pain management of patients, especially focused on the reduction of opioid use performance of interventional pain modalities, including ultrasound-guided nerve blocks, peripheral neuromodulation, and cryoneurolysis. [top]


Laura Giron-Arango

Laura Giron Arango, MD, is an anesthesiologist trained in Medellín-Colombia. She did a regional anesthesia fellowship at Toronto Western Hospital/University of Toronto in 2017. After that, she moved back to Colombia, where she worked at Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe in Medellín as a staff anesthesiologist in charge of the regional anesthesia program. In 2021, she returned to Toronto for a point-of-care ultrasound fellowship at Sunnybrook Hospital / University of Toronto. Since 2023, she has worked as a staff anesthesiologist at Toronto Western Hospital and is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. [top]


Dr. Veena Graff

Veena Graff, MD, is a physician and is board certified in anesthesiology & pain medicine. Her clinical expertise includes general anesthesiology, regional anesthesiology, and acute & chronic pain medicine. Her research focuses on the benefits of music medicine in the perioperative setting and decision-making in the perioperative space. Dr. Graff is currently the division chief of regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and serves as the co-chair of the opioid task force, inpatient sector for the University of Pennsylvania Health System. [top]


Dr. Stuart Grant

Stuart Grant, MBChB, graduated from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and trained in anesthesiology in Glasgow before taking an appointment in the Department of Anesthesiology at Duke University in 2002. He earned his masters in Management Clinical Informatics while at Duke University. He is now chief of the Division of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He has multiple publications on the use of regional anesthesia in major joint replacement, and in ambulatory surgery. His textbook Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia is now in its second edition. Stuart currently serves on ASRA Pain Medicine board of directors and its CME Committee. Twitter: @galusweegie [top]


Dr. Raj Gupta

Rajnish Gupta, MD, is a professor of anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. His clinical focus is on regional anesthesia, acute pain management, and orthopedics anesthesia. He has been the director of the Acute Pain Service and currently serves as the director of Orthopedics Anesthesia at VUMC. Dr. Gupta’s research focus includes regional anesthesia techniques, resident education, technology integration into clinical practice, smartphone app development, and endogenous mechanisms of pain experience. [top]


David Hardman

David Hardman, MD, MBA, FASA, is a professor of anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His clinical expertise is in regional anesthesia and pain medicine, along with liver transplantation and major vascular surgery. Dr. Hardman has a special interest in nerve injury after peripheral nerve block, including the unique malpractice risks facing regional anesthesiologists, and has lectured internationally on this topic. He also regularly consults as an expert witness defending anesthesiologists who have experienced neurologic complications after regional anesthesia. [top]


Dr. T. Kyle Harrison

T. Kyle Harrison, MD, is a clinical professor (Affiliated- PAVA) of anesthesiology, perioperative, and pain medicine at Stanford University, and a staff physician at the VA Palo Alto. He earned his MD and did his residency training in anesthesiology at Stanford University. He completed a medical education and simulation fellowship at Stanford. He is board-certified in anesthesiology and addiction medicine. He is co-director of the transitional pain service at the VA Palo Alto. In addition to his OR-based anesthesia practice, he attends on the acute pain service, the transitional pain service, and the addiction medicine service at the VA Palo Alto. [top]


Ronald Harter, MD, FASA, is President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). He was elected for a one-year term in October 2023. Dr. Harter is a professor and chair of the department of anesthesiology at Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, and a practicing physician anesthesiologist at the University’s Wexner Medical Center.  Dr. Harter completed his doctor of medicine at the Ohio State University. He completed his residency in anesthesiology at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He is board-certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology. [top]

Dr. Stephen Haskins

Stephen Haskins, MD, is a regional anesthesiologist trained at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, NY. During his fellowship, Dr. Haskins developed an interest in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), specifically focused cardiac ultrasound, lung ultrasound, abdominal ultrasound, and gastric ultrasound. Dr. Haskins is the co-founder and chair of the ASRA Pain Medicine Perioperative POCUS Special Interest Group. He is also the lead author for POCUS for the regional anesthesiologist and pain specialist review series in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine. [top]


Dr. Melody Herman

Melody Herman, MD, is the director of regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine with Scope Anesthesia. She completed her residency at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital and regional anesthesiology and acute pain fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Most notably, she began creating short regional videos, “Nerve Block TikToks,” in 2020. Dr. Herman is associate faculty for ASRA Pain Medicine and serves as a US representative for the ESRA International Committee. [top]


Dr. Nadia Hernandez

Nadia Hernandez, MD, completed her anesthesiology residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, NY, followed by fellowship training in regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine. She moved back home to Texas where she serves as an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Texas (UT) at Houston McGovern School of Medicine. After one year, Dr. Hernandez revamped the regional anesthesiology fellowship and was promoted to director of regional anesthesiology at UT Houston as well as program chair of the Regional Anesthesia and Perioperative Ultrasound Fellowship. She is one of the co-founding members of the ASRA Pain Medicine Perioperative Point-of-Care Ultrasound Special Interest Group. [top]


Dr. Rosie Hogg

Rosie Hogg, MB ChB FRCA MD, is a consultant anesthetist based at the Belfast Health & Social Care Trust with a specialist interest in regional anesthesia. She spent a year as visiting faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. Her clinical interests include the development & integration of perioperative point-of-care ultrasound & the use of regional anesthesia in the improvement of perioperative outcomes.  She also works for the NI Department of Health on the future development of elective care. [top]


Dr. Margaret Holtz

Maggie Holtz, MD, is a board certified anesthesiologist. Having previously served as assistant professor of anesthesiology at Emory and then at Yale, she is now part of WellStar Medical Group in Atlanta, where she serves as Medical Director of Regional Anesthesia for WellStar’s 11-hospital system. Dr. Holtz founded the ASRA Private Practice SIG in 2021 and is passionate about bringing the private practice perspective to ASRA Pain Medicine. She speaks on opioid minimization and enhanced recovery after surgery and also teaches at regional anesthesia workshops both nationally and internationally. [top]


Barys Ihnatsenka

Barys Ihnatsenka, MD, started his career in anesthesia and critical care in 1995 when he graduated from medical school in Belarus. In 2001, he moved to the United States. In 2005, he started residency training at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he also completed his fellowship in regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine. Since graduation, he has been a faculty member at the University of Florida. He is interested in education and simulation, especially in regional anesthesia. [top]


Dr. Brian Ilfeld

Brian Ilfeld, MD, MS, completed medical school and residency at the University of California San Francisco. He completed a regional fellowship and earned his master of science degree in clinical investigation at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Since 2006, Dr. Ilfeld's focus has been in clinical research at the University of California San Diego. He has received more than $10 million in career federal funding with current clinical research involving the treatment of both acute and chronic pain with ambulatory continuous peripheral nerve blocks, cryoneurolysis, and percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation. [top]


Ip_Vivian

Vivian Ip, MBChB, MRCP, FRCA, is a clinical professor in the department of anesthesia and pain medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. She is a practicing anesthesiologist with fellowship training in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, and Ambulatory anesthesia. At the University of Alberta Hospital, she is the Director of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine and the Director of Ambulatory Regional Anesthesia Program. At the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society (CAS), she is the Chair of the Environmental Sustainability Section at the CAS and the Vice Chair of the Regional Anesthesia Section. At the American Society of Regional Anesthesia Pain Medicine (ASRAPM), she is the Chair of the Green Anesthesia Special Interest Group and the Vice Chair/Editor of the Newsletter Committee. She is active in research and her research interests include regional nerve block catheters, nerve block safety, environmental sustainability with a focus on regional anesthesia, and neuromodulation in acute pain. [top]


Dr. Rebecca Johnson

Rebecca Johnson, MD, is a professor of anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN. She is fellowship-trained in regional anesthesia and acute pain management. Additionally, she has received a Postdoctoral Certificate in Clinical and Translational Science and was selected as a Health Care Delivery Scholar in the Mayo Clinic Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery. She uses health care delivery research methods to study outcomes following total joint arthroplasty focusing on multimodal and regional anesthesia use within enhanced recovery protocols. [top]


Dr. Jerry Jones

Jerry Jones, MD, served as the director of the acute pain service at Regional One Health, one of the busiest Level 1 Trauma Centers in the United States, and as the division chief for regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine in the department of anesthesiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis, Tennessee. He recently attained the requirements for associate professor which is currently in process. He remains an adjunct assistant professor at UTHSC where he continues to teach and publish after being recruited back into private practice at the end of 2021. [top]


Dr. Hari Kalagara

Hari Kalagara, MD, is passionate about regional anesthesia and has completed a regional anesthesia fellowship at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH. He has attained a European Diploma in Regional Anesthesia (EDRA) from the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy and was awarded the ASRA Resident/Fellow of the Year Award in 2017. Dr. Kalagara served as Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Director at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Kalagara holds certifications in perioperative echocardiography and critical care echocardiography by the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE). Dr. Kalagara is currently working as an assistant professor in Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the Mayo Clinic with a special interest in regional anesthesia and POCUS. He is currently the Chair of ASRA Pain Medicine POCUS courses. [top]


Brinda Kamdar, MD, is an assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, where she also serves as program director for the regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine fellowship, and associate director of the regional anesthesia and perioperative pain service. She also serves as an associate editor for Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine journal and was the recipient of the MGH Faculty Clinical Mentorship Award in 2017 and 2022. Particular areas of interest are real-time thoracic neuraxial ultrasound and pain management in pregnant women with opioid-use disorder. [top]


Dr. Michelle Kars

Michelle Kars, MD, completed her training in both general pediatrics and anesthesiology at New York Presbyterian Weill-Cornell in New York, followed by a fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Dr. Kars is the director of the Pediatric Acute Pain Service at Northwell Cohen Children’s Medical Center and the director of Continuing Medical Education for the department of anesthesiology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. She is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell where she serves as a part of the core faculty for the anesthesia residency. Her clinical interests include point-of-care ultrasound application in pediatrics as well as research in regional anesthesia techniques in infants and children to minimize opioid requirements in the perioperative period. [top]


Kelleher_Deirdre_LR

Deirdre Kelleher, MD, is an assistant professor of clinical anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine who specializes in regional & acute pain medicine with additional training in acupuncture. She is passionate about finding environmentally sustainable alternatives to current anesthetic practices that simultaneously improve safety, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. She shares these best practices as the vice chair for the ASRA Pain Medicine Green Anesthesia SIG. [top]


Dr. James Kim

James Kim, MD, is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and pain management at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he serves as Division Chief and Fellowship Program Director of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine. After receiving his B.A. in chemistry and biology at Williams College in Massachusetts, he received his medical degree and completed his residency at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. He then completed his fellowship in Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine at Duke University in Durham, NC. Dr. Kim joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, prior to UT Southwestern.

As a fellowship-trained regional anesthesiologist, Dr. Kim has research interests in regional and acute pain management, namely the effectiveness of fascial plane and truncal blocks. He is also heavily involved in resident and fellow education. He has won numerous teaching awards throughout his career, including the faculty teacher of the year awards at UVA, UPenn, and UT Southwestern. He is an associate faculty member of The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and serves as an associate editor for Open Anesthesia/IARS – Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain section. [top]


Kyle Kirkham

Kyle Kirkham, MD, FRCPC, received his regional anesthesia training from the University of Toronto and is currently medical co-director for the acute pain service at the Toronto Western Hospital. His academic work addresses patient preparation before outpatient surgery, including appropriate investigations and eliminating low-value care. He has also published extensively with a focus on meta-analyses of complex perioperative pain challenges. [top]


Dr. Meghan Kirksey

Meghan Kirksey MD, PhD, is an anesthesiologist with expertise in regional anesthesia and orthopedic critical care who has practiced at the Hospital for Special Surgery since completing their anesthesiology residency (Weill Cornell) and critical care fellowship (Columbia University).  Dr. Kirksey has an academic interest in precision medicine and complementary medicine approaches to patient management with a research focus on physiologic and clinical determinants of postoperative outcomes. [top]


Justin Ko

Justin Ko, MD, PhD, is a professor at the Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine in Seoul, Korea. He is currently the Director of Scientific Affairs Committee of the Korean Society of Anesthesiologists (KSA), the Vice President of the Korean Society of Regional Anesthesia (KSRA), the Vice-President of Korean Society of Geriatric Anesthesia & Pain Medicine (KSGAPM), the Director of International Affairs of the Korean Society of Transplantation Anesthesiologists (KSTA), and the Director of Scientific Affairs of the Korean Patient Blood Management (KPBM). He is also the General Secretary of the Asian Australasian Regional Section (AARS) of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA)

He has specialized knowledge in regional anesthesia and liver transplantation. He has conducted numerous clinical trials and basic research and published around 150 peer-reviewed articles. He is clinically active in the operating room, where he teaches and mentors students and residents of anesthesiology. [top]


Dr. Lynn Kohan

Lynn Kohan, MD, is a professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. She obtained her medical degree from Georgetown University, where she also completed her anesthesia residency. She completed her pain medicine fellowship at the University of Virginia and stayed on as faculty.

Dr. Kohan currently serves as the division chief and medical director of pain medicine as well as the chronic pain management fellowship director. She serves on the board of directors for both ASRA Pain Medicine and the American Academy of Pain Medicine. She sits on the editorial board of several pain management journals.  [top]


Dr. Sree Kolli

Sree Kolli, MD, EDRA, is a regional anesthesiologist and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) enthusiast. Dr. Kolli trained at the Cleveland Clinic for his anesthesia residency and fellowship in acute pain and regional anesthesia. He completed training in the United Kingdom and attained a European Diploma in Regional Anesthesia from the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy in 2011. Dr. Kolli is the organizer and primary activity director for the Cleveland Clinic's Cadaver Regional Anesthesia & POCUS Workshops and the Chronic Pain Ultrasound Workshops at the Pain Management Symposium. He is currently the associate program director for the regional anesthesia fellowship program at the Cleveland Clinic. [top]


Sandra Kopp

Sandra L. Kopp, MD, is a professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. She received her doctor of medicine degree from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine in 1999. Dr. Kopp did her internship, anesthesiology residency, and regional anesthesiology fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Dr. Kopp is currently the vice chair of integration and convergence for the department of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine; chair of the division of community anesthesiology; and chair of surgical and procedural practice in SE Minnesota. As part of her Mayo Clinic enterprise roles, she works clinically providing anesthesia in small community hospitals as well as a large tertiary care hospital. She serves as a Board Member for ASRA. Her research interests include regional anesthesia and analgesia for orthopedic surgery, peripheral nerve injury, and anticoagulation. [top]


Dr. Amanda Kumar

Amanda Kumar, MD, is an assistant professor and program director of the RAAPM fellowship at Duke University. She received her MD from Johns Hopkins, and completed an anesthesiology residency at Stanford where she served as chief resident followed by a fellowship in regional and ambulatory anesthesia at Duke. She is passionate about medical education and serves as GME simulation liaison for Duke's Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center. She is a member of Duke's perioperative leadership group, is an associate member of AUA, and is a subcommittee member for ASA. [top]


Kwofie_Kwesi

Kwesi Kwofie, MD, FRCPC, is an associate professor and director of acute pain and RA at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, the past chair of the RA and Acute pain section of the Canadian Anesthesiologist’s Society and the current associate editor for Acute Pain, RA and POCUS for ASRA News. Dr. Kwofie has published many peer-reviewed articles, given many lectures, and presented workshops on his many interests, which include UGRA, mechanisms of peripheral nerve injury, acute pain management, POCUS, and RA education. [top]


Jody Leng, MD, MS, attended medical school at the University of Miami and completed her anesthesiology residency and regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine (RAAPM) fellowship at Stanford in 2014. Prior to medical school, she studied and worked as a biomedical engineer for a medical device startup in the Bay Area. She has been an anesthesiology attending with the amazing team and patients at VA Palo Alto since 2014, and currently serves as the Stanford RAAPM Fellowship Program Director, the VA Director of RAAPM, and the Stanford anesthesiology wellness program co-director. [top]


Dr. Linda Le-Wendling

Linda Le-Wendling, MD, completed a fellowship in acute pain medicine and regional anesthesiology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Since then, she has been faculty in the department of anesthesiology and division of acute pain medicine at the University of Florida. She is currently the fellowship director and loves teaching, writing, and learning.  [top]


Jiabin Liu
Jiabin Liu, MD, PhD, is an attending anesthesiologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York.  He specializes in regional anesthesia and acute pain management.  Dr. Liu is an associate editor of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. He has over 200 publications, focusing on large data outcome research and regional anesthesia techniques. [top]

Dr. Alan Macfarlane
Alan Macfarlane, BSc, MBChB, MRCP, undertook his anesthetic training in the West of Scotland, concluding with a year-long fellowship in regional anaesthesia at Toronto Western Hospital in 2008. He returned to Glasgow to take up a consultant post in 2009 where he is a full-time clinician, as well as an Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow. He is an editor for BJA Education, on the associate editorial board of the BJA, and President of RA-UK. He is also on the RA scientific subcommittee of the European Society of Anaesthesiology, the board of the European Society of RA, and the board of the European Diploma of Regional Anaesthesia. [top]

Machi_Anthony LR

Anthony Machi, MD, is an associate professor in the department of anesthesiology and pain management at the UTSW Medical Center in Dallas. He has practiced in private practice and academics. In the first decade of his clinical career, he focused on regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine. His current research interests include novel applications of ultrasound. Through clinical and academic pursuits, he became interested in the broader practice of pain medicine and returned to training. He is currently doing a fellowship in pain medicine at Stanford University. [top]


Dr. Robert Maniker

Robert Maniker, MD, is an associate professor of anesthesiology and director of the Acute Pain Service at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, NY. He specializes in regional anesthesia and acute perioperative pain medicine. His research focus is in medical education, specifically in the realms of procedural competency, and novel technologies for education delivery. [top]


Dr. William Manson

William Manson, MD, is an anesthesiologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He originally trained in emergency medicine and completed a fellowship in emergency ultrasound. Following ultrasound training, he became the associate director and then director of emergency ultrasound in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Then, he undertook training in anesthesiology at the University of Texas Southwestern/Parkland in Dallas, followed by a regional anesthesiology fellowship at the University of Virginia. Dr. Manson’s research focus is perioperative point-of-care ultrasound. [top]


Edward Mariano, MD, MAS, FASA, is professor and senior vice chair in the department of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of anesthesiology and perioperative care service at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in Palo Alto, CA.

Dr. Mariano has developed techniques and patient care pathways to improve postoperative pain control, patient safety, and other outcomes and has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is president of the California Society of Anesthesiologists for 2022-23 and has held other leadership positions in the American Society of Anesthesiologists, ASRA Pain Medicine, and multiple journals.

He is a recipient of the Veterans Health Administration’s John D. Chase Award for Physician Executives Excellence and has worked on key national healthcare initiatives in the United States, including the accreditation of regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine fellowships, pain management guidelines and hospital-based standards, development of quality and cost measures in perioperative care, and the National Academy of Medicine's Action Collaborative Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic. [top]


Dr. Melissa Masaracchia

Melissa Masaracchia, MD, is an associate professor of anesthesiology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Health and program director for the pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. She obtained her medical degree at New York Medical College in 2011, completed residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 2015, and went on to complete fellowship training both in adult regional anesthesia / acute pain management and in pediatric anesthesiology in 2016 and 2018, respectively. She serves as a board member of the ASRA Pain Medicine Peds SIG. [top]


McCartney_Colin

Colin McCartney, MBChB, PhD, is professor and chair of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Ottawa and head of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the Ottawa Hospital. He trained in medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and then completed anesthesia and pain medicine training in Scotland before moving to Toronto in 1999 for a fellowship in regional anesthesia and pain medicine. From 2000-2006 he was a staff anesthetist and director of the regional anesthesia fellowship program at Toronto Western Hospital, and from 2006 to 2014 was based at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto where he directed a multidisciplinary research team. He has published over 130 articles in peer-reviewed journals, especially in relation to regional anesthesia and pain medicine. He completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2014 but has also supervised and co-supervised many graduate students, fellows, and residents in their own research in the last fifteen years. He is married to Linda and has three children. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing, climbing, beer, the company of friends, and sleep (not always in that order). [top]


Dr. Stavros Memtsoudis

Stavros Memtsoudis, MD, PhD, is a clinical professor of anesthesiology and public health at Weill Cornell Medical College and an attending anesthesiologist and senior scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, NY. He currently serves as the director of Critical Care Services at the same institution. His research interest lies in the study of perioperative outcomes of orthopedic patients. He has published widely on the topic and has recently focused on the role of regional anesthesia and its impact on perioperative outcomes. [top]


Joshua Miller

Joshua Miller, MD, Chair of the Board & Physician Managing Director at Surgical Direction has 30+ years of experience in anesthesiology, pain medicine, medical group management & consulting. Board-certified in anesthesiology & pain medicine, his career ranges from leading a 100+ anesthesiologist practice, serving as a founding member of a 2,700-physician CIN/ACO along with other in national leadership roles leading tertiary care hospitals & ASCs. He writes & lectures extensively on his experiences in the current value-driven transformation of patient care in the US. [top]


Eleni Moka

Eleni Moka, MD, PhD, MSc, EDRA, was born in Athens, Greece in 1973. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine (School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) in 1996, and after her graduation, she completed her 5–year residency training in the Specialty of Anaesthesiology (Aretaieion University Hospital, Athens, Greece), followed by successful board examinations in 2003.   

From March 2004 until now, she has worked as a Consultant Anaesthesiologist in Heraklion–Crete, Greece (Hellenic HealthCare Group Institution – HHG), with her main topics of interest being Regional Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Management, Enhanced Recovery after Surgery, Ambulatory Anaesthesia, as well as TOE in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia. In parallel, from March 2004 and up to now she holds the position of Head of Anaesthesiology Department at her institution.

Currently, she is serving as Vice Chair of ESRA Hellas, the zone of ESRA in Greece and Cyprus. From September 2011 to 2015, she was a member of the ESRA Council, as the Greek Representative. In 2015 she was elected ESRA Board Member for 3 years and from 2018 – 2022 she served as ESRA Treasurer. In September 2022 she was honored by being elected the forthcoming President of ESRA (ESRA President-Elect), with her term starting in September 2023. She has served as EDRA Board Member for the period 2013 – 2019. Currently, she continues her involvement in the Diploma activities as an EDRA examiner. [top]

Arun Nagdev

Arun Nagdev, MD, is the current director of emergency ultrasound in the department of emergency medicine at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, California, and associate clinical professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

He began his academic career by founding the emergency ultrasound fellowship at Rhode Island Hospital / Brown University. On his return to Highland General Hospital, Dr. Nagdev took up the mantle to run the emergency ultrasound division and fellowship program.

He has lectured at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), the Society of Academic Emergency Physicians (SAEM), the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), and various national and international conferences. Winner of the SAEM Researcher of the Year award (2016), Dr. Nagdev has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and more than 20 book chapters. He is the past chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) point-of-care ultrasound section, past chair of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM point-of-care ultrasound section, and has been a staff writer for ACEP Now – Sound Advice for more than a decade. [top]


Dr. Monika Nanda

Monika Nanda, MBBS, MPH, is a professor of anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Nanda directs the regional anesthesiology fellowship at UNC and leads education in residency and fellowship. She organizes cadaveric courses in Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia and teaches extensively at workshops and conferences. Her research focuses on clinical outcomes, simulation, educational methods in anesthesia, and quality improvement. She holds key roles in ASRA Pain Medicine and UNC School of Medicine committees. [top]


Dr. Samer Narouze

Samer Narouze, MD, PhD, is a professor of anesthesiology and surgery at NEOMED and Ohio University. He is board certified in anesthesiology, pain medicine, headache medicine, and interventional pain management. He is the chairman of the Center for Pain Medicine at Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, OH. Dr. Narouze is the president of ASRA Pain Medicine. He founded the American Interventional Headache Society and serves on many committees for national and international headache and pain organizations. He has published about 200 research papers, review articles, book chapters, and abstracts. His areas of interest are pain, headache, cannabinoids, diversity and inclusion, wellness, obesity, and ultrasound.  [top]


Dr. Olga 'Kiki' Nin

Olga “Kiki” Nin, MD, is an associate professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL.  She is the assistant chair of clinical affairs and the medical director of UF’s outpatient surgical centers.  She is fellowship-trained in acute pain and perioperative pain medicine at UF Health. She is from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and completed her medical degree at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA, and her anesthesia residency and fellowship at the University of Florida in Gainesville. [top]


Jennifer Noerenberg, MD, is a fellowship-trained anesthesiologist in regional anesthesia and perioperative pain management. She completed residency at UC Davis and a fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a partner physician with the Southern California Permanente Medical Group working for Kaiser in San Diego, California. She is the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery anesthesia lead for the San Diego region and has focused on developing multispecialty perioperative pathways for multimodal pain control, infection prevention, and patient communication. She is also the chair of the Wellbeing and Work culture Improvement and Structural Enhancement (WWISE) committee for the California Society of Anesthesiologists. [top]

Jaime Ortiz

Jaime Ortiz, MD, MBA, CMQ, FASA, is a professor of anesthesiology at Baylor College of Medicine where he has been a faculty member since 2008.  He completed his residency training at Baylor College of Medicine. He proceeded to do a one-year fellowship in regional anesthesia at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Dr. Ortiz currently serves as Vice Chair for Clinical Quality, Outcomes and Research for the Department of Anesthesiology. He is the Director of Regional Anesthesia and Co-Director of the Acute Pain Management Service at Ben Taub General Hospital. [top]


Stephanie Pan, MD is a clinical assistant professor of pediatric anesthesiology at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) Stanford. Board-certified in pediatric anesthesiology, she completed a fellowship in regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Dr. Pan is a local mentor for the ASA Diagnostic POCUS Certificate Program and a recipient of the ASRA Pain Medicine Early-Stage Investigator Grant. Her clinical interests include pediatric regional anesthesia, pediatric POCUS, and pediatric orthopedic spine surgeries. [top]


Michael Patzkowski

Michael Patzkowski, MD, is currently the chair of the department of anesthesia at Brooke Army Medical Center and also serves as the consultant for anesthesiology to the US Army Surgeon General. As an associate professor of anesthesiology, at USUHS, he dedicates time to teaching and mentoring medical students, residents, and fellows. His scientific publications feature novel applications of regional anesthesia, and he is active in research, with a focus on pain management of orthopedic patients. [top]


Dr. Sharon Peacock

Sharon Peacock, MD, obtained her bachelor of health sciences in physical therapy from McGill University (2002) and her doctor of medicine from Queen’s University (2011). She completed her anesthesia residency at the University of Toronto and her fellowship training included a regional anesthesia fellowship at Sunnybrook and an advanced clinical fellowship at Sinai. Her clinical interests include regional anesthesia, point-of-care ultrasound, and medical education. [top]


Dr. Anahi Perlas

Anahi Perlas, MD, is a professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Toronto and Director of Research at the Department of Anesthesia at Toronto Western Hospital in Ontario, Canada.  Her research interests include ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia and gastric ultrasound.  She has published more than 90 peer-reviewed original articles and given over 100 lectures nationally and internationally.  Dr. Perlas is Executive Editor of the journal Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and a founding member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Editorial Board on point-of-care ultrasound. [top]


Dr. Carlos Pino

Carlos Pino, MD, is a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Guidelines Committee of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA Pain Medicine). He is a Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (FASA) and a Professor of Anesthesiology at Uniformed Services University at Naval Medical Center in San Diego. He has served as Chair of the Scientific/Education Planning Committee for the 14th Annual Pain Medicine Meeting and as program director of the pain medicine fellowship at the University of Vermont. [top]


Porter_Steven

Steven Porter, MD, is an assistant professor of anesthesiology in the department of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. He is the program director for Mayo Clinic Florida’s Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine fellowship, the medical director for Mayo Clinic Florida’s Quality Academy, and the chair of his hospital’s controlled substance and pain oversight team. Dr. Porter has lectured at regional, national, and international meetings on topics related to regional anesthesia and acute pain management. [top]


Dr. David Provenzano

David Provenzano, MD, is the president of Pain Diagnostics and Interventional Care. He serves on the executive committee of the medical staff at Western PA Surgery Center. He received his undergraduate degree from Colgate University, where he graduated magna cum laude and became a Phi Beta Kappa member. He received his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, completed a surgical internship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and a residency in anesthesiology at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital. He completed a pain management fellowship at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.

Dr. Provenzano has served as a principal investigator on multiple research studies and published numerous scientific articles. His research interests include neuromodulation, monopolar and bipolar radiofrequency lesioning, and health care safety studies. He has lectured at numerous international and national meetings on the management of acute and chronic pain. Furthermore, he serves as an external member of the Robert Morris University IRB. He has clinical teaching appointments including adjunct associate professor in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center department of anesthesia – pain medicine fellowship and adjunct clinical instructor in the department of physician assistant Rangos School of Health Sciences at Duquesne University. Currently, he is an ex officio board member of the North American Neuromodulation Society and previously served as secretary. He serves on the board of directors of ASRA Pain Medicine as President. He serves on the editorial boards of scientific journals including Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (editor) and Interventional Pain Medicine (associate editor, neuromodulation section). In addition, he is the ASRA Pain Medicine American Medical Association House of Delegates representative. He has extensive interests and expertise in the conservative treatment of pain originating from the cervical and lumbar spine, neuromodulation, and in the utilization of ultrasound for interventional pain management procedures. [top]


Dr. Bridget Pulos

Bridget Pulos, MD, is a regional anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She graduated from Tufts University in Medford, MA, and completed medical school, anesthesiology residency, and regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. Her interests include resident education, ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia, and the impact of regional anesthesia on perioperative outcomes. Dr. Pulos is also the Program Director for the RAAPM Fellowship at Mayo Rochester. [top]


Reva Ramlogan

Reva Ramlogan, BSc, MBBS, MEd, is fellowship trained in regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine. He is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa, where he is the rotation lead for residents on regional anesthesia, the fellowship director and regional anesthesia director. He is a founding member and past Chair of the Education in Regional Anesthesia Special Interest group, of ASRA Pain Medicine. His academic interests include the use of simulation to promote learning regional anesthesia; regional anesthesia and hip fracture outcomes; and rib fracture analgesia. [top]


Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid, MD, is a plastic surgeon with expertise in microsurgery, breast reconstruction, complex reconstruction, and cosmetic surgery of the breast and body. He performs breast reconstruction with free flap methods such as DIEP and PAP flaps, along with other techniques. As an expert in microsurgery, Dr. Reid can operate on a very small scale, which often involves reconnecting blood vessels that are millimeters in size. Dr. Reid is a San Diego native who completed most of his training in San Diego and has always been dedicated to helping patients in this region. [top]


Dr. Meg Rosenblatt

Meg Rosenblatt, MD, FASA, is a professor of anesthesiology and orthopedics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Chair of the department of anesthesiology, perioperative, and pain medicine at Mount Sinai Morningside and West Hospitals.  She is a member of the ASRA Board of Directors, the Past-Chair of the 2020 annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and the General Chair of the 2020 and 2021 New York State Society of Anesthesiologist’s Post Graduate Assembly (PGA). Meg is an Oral Examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiologists and writes questions for the SOE.  She lectures nationally and internationally about regional anesthesia topics and local anesthetic systemic toxicity and moderates peripheral nerve block workshops. [top]


Dr. Engy Said

Engy Said, MD, is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at UC San Diego (UCSD) and serves as director of the Acute Pain Service. She completed her medical degree education at UCLA followed by anesthesiology residency training at the University of Southern California (USC) and UCSD. She then completed a regional anesthesia and acute pain fellowship at UCSD in 2014. Her research interests center around acute pain management, opioid-sparing modalities, and novel regional anesthesia techniques, including neuromodulation and cryanalgesia. [top]


Dr. Kristin Schreiber

Kristin Schreiber, MD, PhD, is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and vice chair of faculty development in the department of anesthesiology, perioperative, and pain medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. She completed her MD and a PhD in neuroscience at the University of Minnesota, investigating reciprocal neural-immune interactions involved in infection and the development of persistent pain. She completed residency training at the University of Pittsburgh, and fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she practices clinically as a regional anesthesiologist.

Dr. Schreiber's research program investigates the development of chronic pain after surgical injury, using psychosocial and psychophysical assessment tools, in addition to biomarkers, clinical characteristics, and socio-demographics, to predict who is most at risk. Her perioperative interventional studies incorporate this dense biopsychosocial assessment of individual patients into their design to allow a more nuanced assessment of differential efficacy of preventive perioperative interventions among patients to ultimately inform more personalized care. In her quantitative sensory testing lab, she investigates differences in pain processing among individuals, including how subjective pain relates to changes in physiology and how pain may be modulated by non-opioid analgesic techniques, ranging from regional anesthetic techniques to music. [top]


Mark Schultzel

Mark Schultzel, MD, MBA, FAAOS, FAOA, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and division chief of orthopedics at United Medical Doctors. His focuses of practice are shoulder and elbow sports medicine (labral tears, rotator cuff tears, Tommy John injuries), shoulder and elbow arthroplasty (joint reconstruction), and fracture care. He was selected to the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) and American Orthopaedic Association (AOA) Honor Society as an Emerging Leader. He is also section Chief at the Sharp Community Medical Group and is Chief Medical Officer at Modiv Health, an AI-based tech start-up. [top]


Dr. Gary Schwartz

Gary Schwartz, MD, serves as the vice chair of pain and anesthesiology at Maimonides Medical Center, a member of the Executive Committee of AABP, LLP, and is the Co-Director of AABP Integrative Pain Care in New York.  He serves as faculty for ASRA Pain Medicine and has lectured nationally and internationally. He serves as a board examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology. [top]


Dr. Eric Schwenk

Eric Schwenk, MD, is a fellowship-trained regional anesthesiologist and acute pain physician at Jefferson in Philadelphia, PA. He is a member of the guidelines/regulatory advocacy committee in ASRA Pain Medicine and has served on the research committee in the past. His academic interests are ketamine for refractory headaches, perioperative ketamine and adverse effects, perioperative management of total joint arthroplasty, and social media in medicine. Dr. Schwenk strives to provide perioperative strategies for his patients that minimize opioids when possible and enjoys challenging the status quo. [top]


Dr. Ashley Shilling

Ashley Shilling, MD, is an associate professor at the University of Virginia (UVA) Medical Center. She attended both medical school and residency at the University of Virginia. Her passions include regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine, ambulatory anesthesia, orthopedic anesthesia, and medical education. Her roles include medical director of UVA’s ambulatory surgical center, director of regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine division, and program director for UVA’s regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine fellowship. [top]


Cynthia Shum, DNP, MEd, RN, CHSE-A, has been the director of Simulation Operations at the VA Hospital in Palo Alto, CA, for more than five years. In this position, she is responsible for the operations of the center, facilitation of simulation activities throughout the hospital, and development of new uses for simulation activities. Dr. Shum is an adjunct faculty at the University of South Florida in Tampa within the masters of science in health care simulation program. Cynthia is married and the mother of three young men. [top]


Dr. Sanjay Sinha

Sanjay Sinha, MBBS, is the director of regional anesthesia and the program director of regional anesthesia and acute pain fellowship at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT. He has developed a robust regional anesthesia service in a private practice setting. Dr. Sinha is involved in teaching the anesthesia residents from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and has received Teacher of the Year Award. His current interests are developing innovative ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia techniques for arthroplasty patients and ambulatory surgical patients. [top]


Brian Sites, MD, MS, is a professor of anesthesiology and orthopedic surgery at Dartmouth-Health.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine.  Additionally, he is Medical Director of the acute pain medicine service at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.  Dr. Sites’ research interests range from optimizing image guidance in regional anesthesia to identifying population health value of acute pain medicine.  He is a passionate supporter of the ASRA Pain Medicine mission and has served on its Board of Directors.  [top]


Dr. Cameron Smith

Cameron Smith, MD, PhD, a native of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, joined the University of Florida after completing his fellowships in acute and perioperative pain medicine and clinical and translational research at UF. He also holds both a PhD in physiology and biophysics and an MSc in pharmacology. Outside the hospital, Dr. Smith is a father of 2, a science-fiction nerd, SCUBA diver, and an accomplished bassist and drummer. [top]


Soffin_Ellen

Ellen Soffin, MD, PhD, is Vice Chief of clinical affairs and associate professor of anesthesiology in the department of anesthesiology, critical care & pain management at the Hospital for Special Surgery.  Dr. Soffin’s clinical interests include anesthesia for complex spine surgery, emphasizing applications of regional analgesia to the spine surgery patient. She is a nationally recognized expert on enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathways for spine surgery and has published extensively on opioid-minimizing strategies for orthopedic surgery. [top]


Dr. Rakesh Sondekoppam

Rakesh Sondekoppam, MD, is the division director of regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City. He heads the acute pain and regional anesthesia services at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) and continues to be involved in resident and fellowship training at the UIHC. He is also the founding member and current vice chair of the ASRA Pain Medicine Green Anesthesia special interest group. [top]


David Spiegel, MD, is professor and associate chair of psychiatry & behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, Director for the Center on Stress and Health and the Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Spiegel has published 13 books, 425 scientific journal articles, and 175 book chapters. He was former President of the American College of Psychiatrists and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. He is a Member of the National Academy of Medicine and presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2018. [top]


Joanne Tan, MD, FANZCA, is a consultant anesthetist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital who has completed fellowships in regional anesthesia at Toronto Western Hospital, and neuroanaesthesia and upper GI anesthesia fellowships at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. She has a keen interest in regional anesthesia, medical education, physician welfare, and making memes. [top]


Christopher Tanaka, MD, completed his residency and cardiac anesthesiology fellowship at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell. Prior to his current appointment at the Hospital for Special Surgery, he was a cardiac anesthesiologist at Montefiore Medical Center for ten-years. For his research and educational contributions in perioperative TEE, TTE, and POCUS, he was named as a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography. [top]


Tiffany Tedore, MD, is an associate professor of anesthesiology and chief of regional anesthesiology and pain medicine at New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is also the program director of the Weill Cornell Fellowship in regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine. Dr. Tedore graduated from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 2001. She completed residency training at New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center and fellowship training in regional anesthesiology at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Her academic interests include education in regional anesthesia and outcomes with regional anesthesia after orthopedic and cardiac surgery. [top]


Hanae Tokita

Hanae Tokita, MD, FASA, is the director of anesthesia at The Josie Robertson Surgery Center (JRSC), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s premier dedicated center for ambulatory cancer surgery. She is also actively engaged in clinical research focused on improving postoperative pain and quality of recovery in women undergoing mastectomy with immediate reconstruction. [top]


Dr. Ban Tsui

Ban Tsui, MD, MSC, is a pediatric and adult anesthesiologist as well as a professor at Stanford University. Dr. Tsui has the primary interest and objective of his research to transform regional anesthesia from an “art” into a reliable and reproducible “science” by further exploring the basic scientific and clinical aspects of electrophysiological signal monitoring and integrating this with the latest advances in ultrasound. Dr. Tsui has a strong interest in mentoring and motivating residents and anesthesiologist fellows to incorporate research into their clinical practice. Dr. Tsui has received Clinical Scholar funding from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) since 2002. Dr. Tsui is the recipient of the 2015 CAS research recognition award from the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society (CAS). He has previously received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and multiple awards from CAS. [top]


Dr. Vishal Uppal

Vishal Uppal, MBBS, FRCA, is an associate professor and director of the regional anesthesia fellowship program at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. He is also the current chair of the Canadian Anesthesiologists Society (CAS) Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain section. His clinical experience and content expertise are in regional anesthesia, acute pain, obstetric anesthesia, and evidence synthesis. He has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. Currently, he serves as an associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia and Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Journals. [top]


Ansara Vaz, MD, received her medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College and completed an anesthesiology residency at the same institution before completing a fellowship in regional anesthesiology and acute pain management at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Dr. Vaz currently practices at the Hospital for Special Surgery and is a clinical assistant professor of anesthesiology at WCMC. Her clinical focus is regional anesthesiology for orthopedic surgery. Outside of the operating room, Dr. Vaz is heavily involved in legislative advocacy on the New York State as well as national levels. She currently serves as chair of the Government and Legal Affairs Committee of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists. She is also a member of the committee on Governmental Affairs of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. [top]


Dr. Eugene Viscusi

Eugene R. Viscusi, MD, is a professor of anesthesiology and vice chair of the division of pain medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College and completed his residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His clinical experience has included acute and chronic pain (including cancer and palliative care), OR anesthesiology, regional anesthesiology, and care of patients with opioid use disorder. 

His research interests include pain management techniques, outcome studies, and novel agents and delivery systems. He has been a primary investigator and consultant for most emerging pain technologies in the last 30 years.

Dr. Viscusi has lectured extensively in the United States and internationally. He has authored well over 100 peer-reviewed papers in journals including JAMA, Anesthesiology, Anesthesia & Analgesia, and Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. He also authored a textbook on acute pain management, numerous book chapters, and several hundred abstracts. He has appeared in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today as well as numerous nationally televised interviews.

Dr. Viscusi is a Past President of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. He will be the general program chair of the 2024 annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.  Fun fact:  Gene was a professional musician for 25 years as a conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and instrument builder! [top]


Effronssyni (Gina) Votta-Velis, MD, PhD, is a professor of anesthesiology and surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the director of the Pain Medicine Fellowship. She is a member of the ASRA Board of Directors and the vice chair of the ASRA Research Committee. She is an examiner for the European Diploma in Pain Medicine. She received the Carl Koller Research Grant in 2018 and the ASRA Trailblazer Award for her contributions to the field of pain medicine in 2020. [top]


Dr. Marissa Weber

Marissa Weber, MD, is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital. She completed an anesthesia residency at Thomas Jefferson University and regional and acute pain medicine fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center. At Cornell, she serves as a member of the regional faculty. She also has a special interest in point-of-care ultrasound and is in charge of the point-of-care ultrasound program for the anesthesia fellows at Cornell as well as the Director of Intern Programming for the Anesthesia Residency Program. [top]


Dr. Sylvia Wilson

Sylvia Wilson, MD, is a professor in the department of anesthesia and perioperative medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, SC. Since joining MUSC, she has served as regional anesthesia division chief and fellowship director, medical director of ambulatory surgery, Endowed Chair for Clinical Research, and Vice Chair for Research. Her research interests include optimization of regional anesthetic techniques and nonopioid analgesics. She is also committed to anesthesia education and volunteers as both an applied examiner with the ABA and as the Chair for ASRA’s Education SIG.  [top]


Christopher Wu
Christopher Wu, MD, is a clinical professor of anesthesiology at the Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine.   He is widely considered one of the world’s top experts in acute/postoperative pain management and is recognized internationally for his work in the areas of postoperative pain, regional anesthesia, and enhanced recovery after surgery.  Dr. Wu has over 200 publications and book chapters including manuscripts in JAMA, The Lancet, and British Medical Journal. [top]

Dr. Jeff Xu

Jeff Xu, MD FASA, is an associate professor of anesthesiology and the chief of the division of regional anesthesia & acute pain management at Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College (WMC/NYMC) in Valhalla, NY. He is actively involved in various committees of the ASA, NYSSA, ASRA Pain Medicine, and holds the position of Vice-Chair for ASRA Pain Medicine’s Persistent Pain Special Interest Group (SIG). Additionally, Dr. Xu is the founder and former program director of the Regional Anesthesiology & Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship at WMC/NYMC, serving in this role from 2016 to 2024. His clinical research interests encompass innovative technologies for regional anesthesia, perioperative pain management, and regional anesthesia education. [top]


Yury Zasimovich

Yury Zasimovich, MD, is the chief of acute pain medicine at the University of Florida. His interests are in ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia, thoracic analgesia (paravertebrals and epidural), simulation in regional anesthesia, and education of the new generation of regional anesthesiologists. [top]

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