Contributing Authors
Meera Appaswarny MD
Pain Medicine Fellow
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain, University of Pittsburgh, St. Margaret Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Harinarayan Balasubramian MD
Consultant Anesthesiologist
Department of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology Associates of Eastern Connecticut, Manchester, Connecticut
Marco Barone MD
Staff Anesthesiologist
CHU de Hautepierre, Strasbourg, France
Barry F. Bass MD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, The
University of Texas–Houston Medical School; Attending Anesthesiologist,
University Center for Pain Medicine and Rehabilitation, Memorial
Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas
Bruce Ben-David MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Attending Staff, Department of
Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Shadyside
Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cheryl D. Bernstein MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center, St. Margaret Pain Medicine Center,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Paul E. Bigeleisen MD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh, Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
André P. Boezaart MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa; Director, Regional Anesthesia Study Center of Iowa (R.A.S.C.I.), Iowa City, Iowa
Alain Borgeat MD, PhD
Full Professor
Orthopedic Anesthesia, University of
Zurich; Chief of Staff, Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesia,
Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Anthony R. Brown MBChB, FFA(SA)
Clinical Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia
University; Director, Orthopedic and Regional Anesthesia, Department of
Anesthesiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian
Medical Center, New York, New York
Richard Brull MD
Department of Anesthesia and Pain
Management, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
David Burns MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Albert J. Carvelli MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University
of Pittsburgh Medical Centers, St. Margaret Pain Medicine Center,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Andrea Casati MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Vincent W.S. Chan MD, FRCPC
Professor
Department of Anesthesia, University of
Toronto; Head, Regional Anesthesia and Pain Program, Department of
Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto Western Hospital, University
Hospital Network, Toronto, Canada
Jacques E. Chelly MD, PhD, MBA
Professor
of Anesthesiology (with Tenure) and Orthopedic Surgery, Vice Chair of
Clinical Research, Director of the Regional and Orthopedic Fellowships,
Director of the Division of Acute Interventional Perioperative Pain and
Regional Anesthesia
Department of Anesthesiology, University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Director of Orthopedic Anesthesia, UPMC
Shadyside Hospital, Director of Acute Interventional Perioperative
Pain, UPMC Presbyterian-Shadyside Hospitals, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Thomas O. Clanton MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Orthopaedics, The University of Texas–Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas
Laura Clark MD
Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Director of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
Giovanni Cucchiaro MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Charles Pham Dang MD
Department of Anesthesiology, Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, France
Miles Day MD, FIPP, DABIPP
Associate Professor, Pain Management Fellowship Director
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas
Pasquale De Negri MD
Chief
Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, CROB Cancer Center, Rionero in Vulture, Italy
Sukhijinder Dhother MD
Department of Anesthesiology, Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas
Pierre Diemunsch MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, ICU, CHU de Hautepierre, Strasbourg, France
Louis-Jean Dupré MD
Co-directeur
Diplome Universitaire d'anesthésie
locorégionale, Faculté de Médecine de Grenoble, La Tronche, France,
Anesthésiste Réanimateur, Clinique général du Dr. Cleret, Chambéry,
France
Guido Fanelli MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Anesthesia, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Carlo D. Franco MD
Associate Professor
Anesthesiology and Anatomy, Departments
of Anesthesiology and Anatomy, Rush University Medical Center;
Chairman, Orthopedic Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, John
H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois
Elizabeth Gaertner MD
Praticien Hospitalier
Department of Anesthesiology, Hautepierre Hospital, Strasbourg, France
Ralf E. Gebhard MD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami; Director, Regional Anesthesia, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida
Victor Andrei Georgescu MD
Visiting Instructor
Department of Anesthesiology, Division
of Pain Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Faculty,
Department of Anesthesiology, Chronic Pain Medicine, University
Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Andrew T. Gray MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesia and
Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco; Associate
Professor, Department of Anesthesia, San Francisco General Hospital,
San Francisco, California
Jennifer R. Greger MD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas
Admir Hadžié MD, PhD
Director of Regional Anesthesia
Department of Anesthesiology, St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University, New York, New York
Carin A. Hagberg MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Anesthesiology, The
University of Texas–Houston Medical School; Staff Anesthesiologist,
Department of Anesthesiology, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas
Kristine H. Henderson MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pediatric
Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology, L'Istituto Mediterraneo
per I Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione, Palermo, Italy
Terese T. Horlocker MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Brian M. Ilfeld MD, MS
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego, California
Giorgio Ivani MD
Associated
Department of Anesthesia, University of
Turin; Chairman, Pediatric Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Regina
Margherita Children's Hospital, Turin, Italy
Rama Joshi MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Attending Anesthesiologist, Department of
Anethesiology, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jens Kessler MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Stephen M. Klein MD
Assistant Professor
Director of Ambulatory Research, Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Nick Lo MD
Resident
Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
David P. Loncarich MD
Orthopaedic Surgeon
Fondren Orthopaedic Group, LLP, Houston, Texas
Per-Arne Lonnqvist MD, DEAA, FRCA
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology and
Pharmacology, Section of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Karolinska
Institute; Senior Staff Anesthesiologist, Paediatric Anaesthesia &
Intensive Care, Astrid Lindgrens Children's Hospital/Karolinska
University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
A.A.J. Maillard MD
Memorial Hermann Hospital
Lawrence B. Marr MD, MBA, FRCP(C)
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, University
of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Anesthesiologist, Department of
Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Shadyside
Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Marcos Masson MD
Park Plaza Hospital
Maria Matuszczak MD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, The
University of Texas–Houston Medical School; Faculty, Pediatric
Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology, Memorial Hermann
Hospital, Houston, Texas
Colin McCartney
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia, University of
Toronto; Staff Anesthesiology, Department of Anethesia, Sunnybrook
Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Canada
Rita B. Merman MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Attending Staff, Department of
Anesthesiology, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Valeria Mossetti MD
Staff Anesthesiologist
Pediatric Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Regina Margherita Children's Hospital, Turin, Italy
Steven L. Orebaugh MD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, University
of Pittsburgh; Attending Anesthesiologist, Division of Anesthesia,
University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers, South Side, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Anahi Perlas MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia, University of
Toronto; Director, Clinical Regional Anesthesia, Department of
Anesthesia and Pain Management, University Health Network, Toronto,
Canada
Sripad P. Rao MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Carl C. Rest MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, University
of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nashaat N. Rizk MD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, Division
of Pain Medicine; Director of Chronic Pain Rotation, Residency Program
and Medical School, University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Pain Medicine at St.
Margaret, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Richard S. Ruiz MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Ophthalmology, The
University of Texas–Houston Medical School; Chief, Department of
Ophthalmology, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas
Shashank Saxena MD
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Didier Sciard MD
Visiting Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas–Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas
Rinoo Vasant Shah MD
Assistant Professor and Pain Fellowship, Education Director
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain
Management, International Pain Institute, Texas Tech University Health
Sciences Center; Attending, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain
Management, University Medical Center, Lubbock, Texas
François Singelyn MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology, Centre Clinical, Soyaux, France
Luiz Guilherme L. Soares MD
Clinical Fellow
Department of Anesthesia and Pain
Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto,
Canada; Staff, Department of Critical Care, Hospital Copa D'Or, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
Donashvari R. Solariki FRCA
Laura McDaniel Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
Julie Soong MD
Department of Anesthesia and
Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California
William F. Urmey MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Weill Medical College of Cornell
University; Attending Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology,
Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York
Anna Uskova MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Attending Anesthesiologist, Department of
Anethesiology, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jerry Vloka MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia
University; Director of Regional Anesthesia, Department of
Anesthesiology, St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York