Bio
Elliot Krane was born in Philadelphia, PA but grew up in Tucson, Arizona, the son of a watchmaker and a bookkeeper. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon where he had the Dana Scholarship for Excellence in Humanities and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, then returned to Tucson to attend medical school at the University of Arizona. He took a 13 month leave of absence during medical school to work in the Physiological Laboratory at Cambridge University under the mentorship of Peter Nathanielsz, MD, PhD, introducing the laboratory to computerized data recovery and Fourier analysis of EEG for fetal EEG measurement. After being inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha and graduation from the UA, he trained in pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital, then in anesthesiology, also at the MGH, followed by a fellowship year in pediatric anesthesiology and critical care at Boston Children's Hospital.
After this medical training he moved to Seattle, WA to start an academic career at the University of Washington and the Seattle Children's Hospital (then called Children's Orthopedic Hospital). There he and his colleague Donald C. Tyler, MD started the first (or maybe it was the second) pain clinic for children in the U.S.
In 1994 he left the Northwest to continue his career as the Chief of Pediatric Anesthesiology and Professor at Stanford University. He remained the Anesthesiology Chief for the Packard Children's Hospital until 2003, at which time he stepped down to continue as the Chief of Pain Management, the position he holds today. He holds board certification in Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Pain Management, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Elliot Krane has received the Physician?s Recognition Award in both Anesthesiology and Pediatric Critical from the American Medical Association, the Poster Award from the Vienna International Congress on Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, the Jeffrey Lawson Award for Advocacy in Children?s Pain Relief from the American Pain Society, and the Ellis N. Cohen Achievement Award from the Stanford University Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine. He has also been the recipient of grants from the Mayday Fund, the NIH, the American Medical Association, the Washington State Society of Anesthesiologists, the Diabetes Research and Education Foundation, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists as well as many pharmaceutical companies to assist them in new drug development for the treatment of pediatric pain.
Elliot now lives in Menlo Park with his wife Maria Amundson, a recent Stanford Distinguished Careers Fellow, her daughter, and two Australian terriers. His adult sons live in the Bay Area, and his adult step-son studies at, and played varsity baseball for UCSD.
Clinical Focus
- Anesthesia
- Pediatric Pain Management
- Anesthesia, Pediatric
- Regional Anesthesia
- Complex Regional Pain Syndromes
Academic Appointments
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Professor - Med Center Line, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
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Professor - Med Center Line, Pediatrics - Operations
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Member, Bio-X
Administrative Appointments
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, University of Washington (1983 - 1989)
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Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, University of Washington (1983 - 1989)
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Pediatrics, University of Washington (1989 - 1994)
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Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, University of Washington (1989 - 1994)
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Chief of Anesthesia, LPCH (1994 - 2003)
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Chief of Pain Management Service, LPCH (1994 - Present)
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Professor, Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine (1994 - Present)
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Professor, Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine (1994 - Present)
Honors & Awards
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Dana Scholarship for Excellence in Humanities, Reed College (1970)
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Phi Beta Kappa, Reed College (1974)
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Alpha Omega Alpha, University of Arizona (1977)
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Cerebral blood flow in an infant animal model, American Society of Anesthesiologists (1984)
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Comparison of caudal morphine bupivacaine, and IV morphine for pain relief in children, NIH Biomedical Research Grant (1986)
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Prevention of brain swelling during diabetes ketoacidosis, Diabetes Research and Education Foundation Grant (1987)
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Epidural Sufentanil in Children, NIH Biomedical Research Grant (1991)
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Physician’s Recognition Award,, American Medical Association (1997)
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Physician’s Recognition Award, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, American Medical Association (1997)
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Poster Award, Vienna International Congress 1998 on Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, European Society of Anesthesia (1998)
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A Placebo- Controlled of Effectiveness and Safety of ALGRX 3268 In Pediatrics, Corgentech Corporation (2005)
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A Study of Safety and Efficacy of Epidural MS Extended-Release Liposome Injection in Pediatrics, Skye Pharma, Inc. (2006)
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Pfizer Visiting Professor in Pain Medicine, University of Hawaii (2006)
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A Phase III Study of the Safety and Efficacy of IV APAP in Pediatric Inpatients, Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2007)
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Initiation of a Juvenile CRPS National Consensus Group, Mayday Fund (2007)
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Complex Regional Pain Syndromes in Childhood, Mayday Fund (2008)
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Safety and Tolerability of Extended-Release Oxymorphone in Pediatric Subjects, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2008)
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Safety, PK, and Effectiveness of Oxymorphone for Acute Surgical Pain in Pediatrics, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2008)
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Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship, Mayday Fund (2010)
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Lawson Award for advocacy in pediatric pain, American Pain Society (2012)
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Ellis M. Cohen Achievement Award, Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Anesthesia (2015)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Founding member, President-Elect, Pediatric Research Network for Pain (PRN-Pain) (2005 - Present)
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Member, California Society of Anesthesiologists (1994 - Present)
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Member, American Pain Society (1985 - 2019)
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Founding Member, Society for Pediatric Anesthesiology (1989 - Present)
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Elected member, Association of University Anesthesiologists (1990 - Present)
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Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics (1985 - Present)
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Member, International Anesthesia Research Society (1982 - Present)
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Member, American Society of Anesthesiologists (1980 - Present)
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Member, International Association for the Study of Pain (1984 - Present)
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Appointed, International Association for the Study of Pain Presidential Commission on Cannabis Use (2018 - Present)
Professional Education
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Medical Education: University of Arizona College of Medicine Office of the Registrar (1977) AZ
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Board Certification: American Board of Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesia (2013)
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Board Certification: American Board of Pain Medicine, Pain Management (2012)
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Board Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatrics (1985)
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Board Certification: American Board of Anesthesiology, Anesthesia (1985)
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Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital (1982) MA
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Internship: Massachusetts General Hospital (1979) MA
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Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital (1980) MA
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Fellowship: Children's Hospital Boston (1983) MA
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Recertification, American Board of Anesthesiology, Anesthesia (2014)
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Recertification, American Board of Anesthesiology, Anesthesia (2009)
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MD, University of Arizona, Medicine (1977)
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No degree, Cambridge University, Endocrinology (1976)
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BA, Reed College, Chemistry (1974)
Community and International Work
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Surgery in Nicaragua, Esteli, Nicaragua
Topic
Surgical and anesthetic care
Partnering Organization(s)
Operation Rainbow
Populations Served
Indigent children in Nicaragua
Location
International
Ongoing Project
Yes
Opportunities for Student Involvement
Yes
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Taiwan National Children's Hospital, Taipei
Topic
Consultant
Partnering Organization(s)
Project Hope
Location
International
Ongoing Project
No
Opportunities for Student Involvement
No
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Project Hope, Former states of the Soviet Union
Topic
Humanitarian assistance
Populations Served
Former states of the Soviet Union
Location
International
Ongoing Project
No
Opportunities for Student Involvement
No
Patents
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Elliot Krane. "United States Patent 13/041,387 Indwelling Nerve Block Catheters", SRI, Stanford University, Sep 8, 2011