Bio
Edward R. Mariano, MD, MAS, FASA, FASRA, is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine. He completed his anesthesiology residency at Stanford University Medical Center and pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital with a special interest in regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine (RAAPM) for children. He is double board-certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology and is a Fellow of both the American Society of Anesthesiologists and American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA).
He joined the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), in 2004, where he founded the RAAPM program. While working full-time, he also earned a Master of Advanced Studies degree in clinical research. He served as RAAPM Division Chief at UCSD until 2010, pioneering the use of continuous peripheral nerve blocks for patients having same-day surgery and founding the first one-year RAAPM Fellowship in California. From 2013 to 2016, Dr. Mariano took the lead in achieving accreditation status for all RAAPM fellowship programs nationwide through the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), and under his direction the RAAPM fellowship program at Stanford became one of the first nine programs to be ACGME-accredited.
Dr. Mariano 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, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. He has developed techniques and patient care pathways to improve postoperative pain control, patient safety, and other outcomes and has published over 275 peer-reviewed articles in addition to being a recipient of the Veterans Health Administration’s John D. Chase Award for Physician Executives Excellence and ASRA Pain Medicine Distinguished Service Award. He is a Past President of the California Society of Anesthesiologists and has held leadership positions in the American Society of Anesthesiologists, ASRA, and multiple scientific journals. He has worked on key national healthcare initiatives in the U.S. 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, current procedural terminology, and the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic.
