Community Academic Profiles

Department: Anesthesia

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  • Academic Appointments Clinical Assistant Professor,  Anesthesia
    Clinical Focus
    • Anesthesia
    • Pediatric Pain
  • Academic Appointments Clinical Associate Professor,  Anesthesia
    Clinical Focus
    • Psychologist
    • Pain Psychology
    Research Interest

    Areas of interest include chronic pain, pain psychology, sex/gender differences in pain and pain treatment, predictors for opioid prescription, risks and consequences of long-term opioid use, psychoneuroimmunology in women and in pain, the impact of interpersonal factors on self-care in chronic pain, catastrophizing and it's impact on pain and pain outcomes, improving access to low-cost pain care, fibromyalgia, patient empowerment, and self-delivered mirror therapy for phantom pain.

  • Academic Appointments Clinical Instructor,  Anesthesia
    Clinical Focus
    • Anesthesia
  • Academic Appointments Clinical Instructor,  Anesthesia
    Clinical Focus
    • Anesthesia
  • Academic Appointments Clinical Assistant Professor,  Anesthesia
    Clinical Focus
    • Anesthesia
  • Academic Appointments Associate Professor - Med Center Line,  Anesthesia
    Clinical Focus
    • Anesthesia
    • Neurosurgical Anesthesia
    Research Interest

    My research focuses on the relationship between sleep abnormalities and pain behavior and opioid pharmacology in the postoperative, as well as chronic pain setting. More specifically, I am interested in delineating the effect of the different components of sleep-diosordered breathing, like nocturnal recurrent hypoxemia and sleep fragmentation on pain behavior in the acute and/or chronic care setting.

  • Academic Appointments Associate Professor - Med Center Line,  Anesthesia
    Clinical Focus
    • Anesthesia
    • Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation
    • Anesthesia for ENT Surgery
    Research Interest

    Field of clinical pharmacology. This involves analysis of what the body does to a drug (pharmacokinetics) and how exactly a specific drug affects the body (pharmacodynamics). His research starts at the level of new drug development with detailed analysis of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of a medication.

  • Academic Appointments Clinical Instructor,  Anesthesia
    Clinical Focus
    • Anesthesia

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