BWH Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine​

Academic Activities

Our faculty are engaged in clinical, translational, and basic academic research, building the evidence that informs the highest quality patient care, both in and out of the OR.

Presentations and Lectures

Our faculty and staff have given presentations and lectures at various national and international conferences.

American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM)/Scottsdale, AZ

  • Savannah Kazemipour; Robert R Edwards; Simone Tuabenberger; Ajay Wasan; Samantha M Meints: Understanding Intersectional Health-Related Stigma in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain and Negative Affect: A Qualitative Study.

American Society of Regional Anesthesiologist (ASRA) Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Meeting/ San Diego, CA

  • Kristin Schreiber. The Science of Pain and Analgesia/Personalizing Acute Pain.
  • Sylvie Polsky; Eric Chen; Lila Ankiewicz; Jose Zeballos: Hypotension Reveals the Presence of an Epidural Hematoma: A Case Report.
  • Sylvie Polsky; Alexander Stone; Andrew Shorten; Kamen Vlassakov: Regional Anesthesia for Perioperative Management of Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Insertion.
  • Alexander Stone, Alex Illescas, Haoyan Zhong, Jashvant Poeran, Jeremy Smith, Stavros Memtsoudis, Jiabin Liu, DO NERVE BLOCKS IMPACT THE TIMING OF FASCIOTOMY FOLLOWING SURGICAL REPAIR OF LOWER LEG FRACTURE; A NATIONAL DATABASE ANALYSIS
  • Janet Adeola; Alexander Stone: Is there a methadone stigma?: Patient willingness to participate in trials involving intravenous perioperative methadone, a systematic review.
  • Andres Zorrilla-Vaca, Philipp Lirk, Philipp Gerner, Kamen Vlassakov, Alexander Stone BILLING ACCURACY OF PERIPHERAL NERVE BLOCKS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN BLOCK TEAM AND INTRAOPERATIVE ANESTHESIA TEAM
  • Jennifer Kutt, Murka Jeancharles, Alexander Stone, THE USE OF PROXIMAL INTERCOSTAL NERVE BLOCK CATHETER FOR ACUTE LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE ASSOCIATED CHEST WALL PAIN
  • Rebecca Xu, Laurenz Hauptmann, Sheila Gokul, Kara Fields, Philipp Lirk, Kristin Schreiber, POSTOPERATIVE PAIN TRAJECTORIES AFTER ONCOLOGIC BREAST SURGERY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
  • Erika Taco Vasquez, Jose Zeballos, Archana O’Neil, IPSILATERAL HEARING LOSS AFTER RETROCLAVICULAR APPROACH FOR INFRACLAVICULAR CATHETER PLACEMENT FOR INDEX FINGER AMPUTATION
  • Melanie Winters, Erika Taco-Vasquez, Andrew Goldsmith, Michael Weaver, Kamen Vlassakov, Alexander Stone, TIME BETWEEN NERVE BLOCK PLACEMENT IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AND OPERATIVE FIXATION OF HIP FRACTURES: A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS
  • Salvatore Daddario; Inna Zinger; Kara Fields; Muhammad Rehman; Jose Zeballos; Jenna Wilson; Kristin Schreiber; Yun-Yun Chen: THE EFFECT OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION ON REBOUND PAIN: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY IN PRIMARY TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY PATIENTS. Oral presentation.
  • Sheila Gokul; Fabian Stangl; Claire Xu; Joy Badaoui; Lalitha Sundararaman; Kristin Schreiber; Philipp Lirk: Procedure-Specific Acute Pain Trajectories After Shoulder Surgery.
  • Martin Kiik; Sheila Gokul; Patrick Collins; Jenna Wilson; Philipp Lirk; Kristin Schreiber; Yun-Yun Chen: TRAJECTORY OF TEMPERATURE CHANGES IN UPPER EXTREMITY AFTER AN AXILLARY BLOCK. Oral presentation.
  • Yun-Yun Chen; Jenna Wilson; Sheila Gokul; Patrick Collins; Martin Kiik; Kristin Schreiber: PROVIDER INTUITION: HOW WELL CAN ANESTHESIA PROVIDERS ASSESS A PATIENT’S PAIN CATASTROPHIZING SCORE? Poster.
  • Patrick Collins; Sheila Gokul; Jenna Wilson; Martin Kiik; Philipp Lirk; Kamen Vlassakov; Kristin Schreiber; Yun-Yun Chen: TO EDUCATE OR TO SEDATE: PERSONALIZING PREPROCEDURAL SEDATION FOR PATIENTS RECEIVING A PREOPERATIVE NERVE BLOCK.
  • Carlicia Nelson; Marise Cornelius; Samantha Meints; Robert R. Edwards; Robert N. Jamison: WHO PERCEIVES GETTING BETTER OR WORSE ON A SMARTPHONE PAIN APP?: ROLE OF DISABILITY, NEGATIVE AFFECT AND 2-WAY MESSAGING.

ERAS Symposium, 7th Annual / Baylor, Dallas Texas

  • Marc Pimentel: Who Controls the Thermostat – Perioperative Normothermia Management.
  • Marc Pimentel: Implementation 101

International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) and Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA

  • Vesela P Kovacheva: Augmenting Anesthesiology Practice with Generative AI.
  • Vesela P Kovacheva: Integration of Novel Artificial Intelligence and Genomics Tools in Perioperative Care.
  • Chris Connor; Generative AI and Machine Learning
  • Kristin Schreiber, IARS Mentored Research Awards (IMRA) Update
  • Kristin Schreiber, Advanced Regional Anesthesia Ultrasound Techniques Workshop
  • Kumar; Agrawal; Sou; Baker; Wada; Hatabu; Frendl: Portable Dynamic Digital Radiography in the Assessment of Diaphragmatic Dysfunction.

SOCCA

  • Sula Nasra; Rachel E. Carlson; Jingui He; Samuel Justice; Jochen D. Muehlschlegel; Jakob Wollborn: Association Between Magnesium and Potassium Levels and Atrial Fibrillation Detection Using Remote Patch Monitoring in Post-Cardiac Surgery Patients.
  • Samuel Rackley; Gavin Ovsak; Luying Yan; Claire Luo; Christoph Nabzdyk: Mesenteric Ischemia Following Heart Transplantation: A Case Series Review.
  • Kumar; Kovacheva; Palmer: Novel Machine Learning-Powered Early Warning Score for Prediction of Patient Deterioration in PACU.
  • Saggu; Palmer: Antegrade Aortic Dissection and Mesenteric Ischemia following TEVAR.
  • Gray; Palmer: Reverse Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Following Scapular Free Flap Reconstruction.
  • Baker; Taha: Recognizing Cardiac Tamponade in a Patient on Peripheral Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.
  • Nemani; Lazea: PF4-Negative Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis in a Cardiac Surgical Patient.
  • Nemani; Palmer: Are Women More At Risk For Permanent Pacemaker Insertion After Cardiac Surgery?
  • Buchanan; Palmer: When Methimazole Isn’t Enough: Using ECMO as a Bridge to Recovery in Thyroid Storm.
  • Sou: Review of Echocardiographic Features in Cardiac Tamponade: A Case of Acute Hemopericardium Associated with Apixaban in End-Stage Renal Disease.
  • Palmer; Justice; Esmaelzadeh; Platz: Association between right ventricular dysfunction on point-of-care ultrasound and mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
  • Winters; Tsukada; Frendl: Tracheal laceration after easy intubation – a documented course of healing.

North American Neuromodulation Society’s Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV

  • Bulat, E.; Chaturvedi, R.; Johnson, P.; Gulati, A.; Rakesh, N.: Intrathecal Clonidine Dosing for Cancer Pain: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
  • Akash S. Patel; Adlai L. Pappy II; Robert Jason Yong: Podium Presentation/Single-Center Retrospective Study of the Efficacy and Complication Rate of Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator Implantation.

Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists 2024 Toronto, Canada

  • Grace S. Lee; Chinyere Archie; Samuel Justice; Sergey Karamnov: Long-Term Mortality Unaffected: Investigating the Impact of Preoperative Right Ventricular Dilatation and Tricuspid Regurgitation in Lung Transplant Patients.
  • Grace S. Lee; Rowaa Ibrahim; Piotr Sobieszczyk; Nelson Thaemert: A Case of Inaccurate Preprocedural Atrial Septal Defect Assessment by 2D TEE and Cardiac MR.
  • Samuel Rackley; Mary Decker; Chinyere Archie: Continuous TEE Enables Complex Resection of Adrenocortical Carcinoma Extending Into The Right Atrium: A Case Report.
  • Samuel Rackley; Gavin Ovsak; Luying Yan; Claire Luo; Christoph Nabzdyk: Mesenteric Ischemia Following Heart Transplantation: A Case Series Review.
  • Rachel E. Carlson; Sula Nasra; Jingui He; Samuel Justice; Jochen D. Muehlschlegel; Jakob Wollborn: Assessing the burden of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery using remote adhesive patch monitoring after discharge.
  • Serena S. Dasani; Gavin Ovsak; Samuel Justice; Christoph Nabzdyk; Sergey Karamnov: Navigating the Rhythms of Atrial Fibrillation – A Tango Between Clinical Outcomes and Anesthesia Financial Implications.
  • Gavin Ovsak: Mesenteric Ischemia Following Heart Transplantation: A Case Series Review.
  • Gavin Ovsak: Navigating the Rhythms of Atrial Fibrillation – A Tango Between Clinical Outcomes and Anesthesia Financial Implications.
  • Gavin Ovsak: Retrospective Review of ECMO Fibrin Sheath Occurrence after Decannulation.
  • Ahmed Yousef; Kan Zhang; Kirsten Odegard: Resuscitation of a Patient with Severe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.
  • Areli Valencia; Lauren J. Cornella; Michael T. Jaklitsch; Mark J. Cunningham; Matthew T. Menard; Christopher Mukasa; and Sergey Karamnov: Anesthetic Management of Resection of Liposarcoma of Left and Right Atrium and Pericardium (Poster).
  • Jacob Conroy; Kan Zhang; Mckenna Longacre: Abernethy Malformation In A Patient With Failing Fontan Physiology.
  • Mary Decker; Sam Rackley; Chinyere Archie: Continuous TEE Enables Complex Resection of Adrenocortical Carcinoma Extending Into The Right Atrium: A Case Report.

Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology 56th Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado

  • Liao; Ovsak; Raheel; Farber; Kowalczyk: Temporal Trends in Cryoprecipitate and Fibrinogen Concentrate Utilization for Postpartum Hemorrhage from 2015 to 2023.
  • Shakthi Jayanthy Venkatachalam; Gavin Ovsak; Jimin Kim; Anarghya Murthy; Rie Maurer; Lawrence Tsen; Ayumi Maeda: RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN LABOR EPIDURAL ANALGESIA OUTCOMES.
  • Shayna R. Levine; David R. Janfaza; Ayumi Maeda: SHARED SPACES: ULTRASOUND-GUIDED LABOR EPIDURAL PLACEMENT IN A PATIENT WITH A SPINAL CORD STIMULATOR.
  • David Combs; Naida Cole; Jessica Ansari: Of Mice and Women: cutting edge research in uterine atony.
  • Wen; Farber: Timing of initiation of non-opioid analgesics for post-cesarean delivery pain: a before and after comparison of opioid utilization.
  • Mootz; Kowalczyk: Decreased Dose -Response to Fibrinogen Concentrate in Parturients During Postpartum Hemorrhage : A Retrospective Study.
  • Mootz; Kim: Development of an Obstetric Anesthesia Quality Improvement Framework for Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Pilot Study in Vietnam.
  • Galanti; Reale: Patient, Temporal and Provider Factors Associated with Unintended Dural Puncture in Obstetrics.
  • Gavin G. Ovsak; Allison A. Mootz; Hien Vu; Cuong Van Tran; Lawrence C. Tsen; Jimin J Kim; Bushra W. Taha: Improving Obstetric Anesthesia Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Results of a Pilot Needs Assessment Survey in Vietnam.
  • Allison A. Mootz; Gavin G. Ovsak; Hien Vu; Hung Trong Mai; Michaela K. Farber; Bushra W. Taha; Jimin J. Kim: Development of an Obstetric Anesthesia Quality Improvement Framework for Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Pilot Study in Vietnam.
  • Mukasa; Reale: Demographics and Motivations of Current United States Obstetric Anesthesia Fellows: A Survey Based Study.
  • Ibanez; Farber: Integration of A Quantitative Blood Loss and Hemorrhage Alert System for Vaginal Delivery: A Before and After Comparison to Evaluate Postpartum Hemorrhage Outcomes over 8 Year.
  • O’Doherty; Farber: Best Practice at the Time of Labor Epidural Catheter Removal: Use of the Delphi Method to Create a Consensus.
  • Raheel; Kowalczyk: Trends of tranexamic acid (TXA) use in High-Acuity Obstetric Patients in a High-Resource Setting.
  • Mootz; Kowalczyk: A Patient with Hypodysfibrinogenemia Undergoing Cesarean Delivery: Discordant Dose- Response and ROTEM Results (Best Case Report).
  • Wen; Kim: Serotonin Syndrome During Intrapartum Cesarean Delivery (Best Case Report).
  • Wen; Carabuena: Maternal cranial arachnoid cyst: Is neuraxial anesthesia appropriate?
  • Furdyna; Kowalczyk: Labor Analgesia and Hemorrhage Management in a Brugada SCN5A Heterozygous Patient.
  • Venkatachalam; Seifert: Neuraxial anesthesia for repeat cesarean delivery in a patient with a history of CRPS type II following her previous delivery.
  • Maney; Kovacheva: A New Machine Learning Model for the Prediction of Severe Maternal Morbidity Using a Large Retrospective Cohort.
  • Furdyna; Reale: Etiologies and Management of Maternal Cardiac Arrest During Peripartum Anesthetic Care: A Study from the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group.
  • Vesela Kovacheva: Decoding Preeclampsia: AI Technologies to Predict Maternal Risk.

United States Association for the Study of Pain/Seattle, WA

  • Madelyn A. Crago; Jenna M. Wilson; Burel R. Goodin; Samantha M. Meints: The Intersectionality of Racial Discrimination and Chronic Pain Stigma Among Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain.
  • Caroline Allen; Madelyn Crago; Savannah Kazemipour; Delia Fentazi; Bethany Pester; Samantha M. Meints: Acceptability and feasibility of a single session perioperative acceptance and commitment therapy workshop for preventing chronic postsurgical pain.
  • JiHee Yoon; Robert R. Edwards; Can Ozan Tan; Inana Dairi; Ross Zafonte; Rachel Grashow; Samantha M. Meints: Race Differences in Pain Sensitivity Among Former Professional American-style Football Players.
  • Jenna M. Wilson, PhD, Charlotte E. Goldfine, MD, Jenson Kaithamattam, Mohammad Adrian Hasdianda, MD, MSc, MMSc, Kristin L. Schreiber, MD, PhD, Peter R. Chai MD, MMS, Scott G. Weiner, MD, MPH; Lower Anxiety after Listening to Self-Selected Music Contributes to Lower Pain Severity among Patients with Acute Back Pain in the Emergency Department
  • Jenna M. Wilson, PhD*, JiHee Yoon, M.S.*, Chung Jung Mun, PhD, Samantha M. Meints, PhD, Claudia M. Campbell, PhD, Jennifer A Haythornthwaite, PhD, Michael T. Smith, PhD, Robert R. Edwards, PhD, and Kristin L. Schreiber, MD, PhD Improved Pain after Total Knee Arthroplasty: Associated changes in Insomnia and IL-6 Reactivity
  • Angelina R. Franqueiro, Jenna M. Wilson, Emily Rosado, Victoria R. Falso, Dennis Muñoz-Vergara, Michael T. Smith, Elizabeth B. Klerman, Shiqian Shen, and Kristin L. Schreiber; Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Preoperative Sleep Disturbance as a Mediator of the Relationship between decreased Physical Activity and Postoperative Pain

World Congress of Anesthesiologists, Singapore

  • Vesela Kovacheva: Big Data in Perioperative Care.
  • Vesela Kovacheva: Personalized Blood Pressure Control in Obstetric Spinal Anesthesia.
  • Chris Connor: Mindreading for Anesthesiologists – The Action of Volatile Anesthetics on Creatures with Simple Brains.
  • Chris Connor: Reverse Engineering the Bispectral Index.
  • Kristin Schreiber: Using Pre-operative Assessment of Patient Biopsychosocial Phenotype to Predict Risk of Acute and Persistent Pain and Opioid Use.

USASP Meeting in Seattle

  • Lauren Papianou; Carlicia D. Nelson; Marise Cornelius; Samantha Meints; Robert N. Jamison; Robert R. Edwards: Comparisons Between Persons With Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions (COPCs) With or Without Abdominal/Pelvic Pain: Does Pain Location Make A Difference?
  • Carlicia Nelson; Marise Cornelius; Samantha Meints; Robert R. Edwards; Robert N. Jamison: Who Perceives Getting Better or Worse on a Smartphone pain app?:  Role of Disability, Negative Affect and 2-way Messaging.

Other Meetings and Presentations

  • Kylie M. Steinhilber; Robert R. Edwards; Samantha M. Meints: Intersectionality of gender, race, and ethnicity and health-related stigmas in patients with chronic low back pain. Society for Behavioral Medicine/Philadelphia, PA
  • Kristin Schreiber, Psychosocial and Psychophysical Predictors of Chronic Post-Surgical Pain (CPSP), 2023-24 Pain Special Interest Groups Seminar Series at NIH, Bethesda, MD
  • Bulat, E.; Fonseca, A.C.G.; Diejomaoh, E.M.; Kim, R.; Diwan, S.; D’Souza, R.; Schatman, M.; Orhurhu, V.; Emerick, T.; Robinson, C.: Psychedelics for Chronic Pain: A Scoping Review. 12th Annual New York & New Jersey Pain Medicine Congress, Jersey City, NJ
  • Nicolai Goettel: Anesthetic technique and postoperative delirium. Spring Clinical Update in Neuroanesthesia 2024, Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care (SNACC)
  • Kristin Schreiber, Personalizing Preventive Analgesia: Measuring and Using Psychosocial and Psychophysical Phenotypes, 2024 New Jersey State Society of Anesthesiologists Annual MeetinVesela Kovacheva: The AI Revolution in Clinical Medicine. Association of Professors in Medicine (APM) Winter Meeting, Charleston
  • David J. Combs; Eric M. Moult; Andrew Preecha; Shahinoor Begum; Sarah K. England; Adam E. Cohen: Mapping changes in uterine contractility during the ovulatory cycle with wide-area calcium imaging in live mice.  Society for Reproductive Investigation Annual Meeting/Vancouver Canada
  • Vesela P Kovacheva; Braden W Eberhard; David W Bates; Kathryn J Gray: External Validation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict Postpartum Hemorrhage in a Large Dataset from Northeast US. AMIA Summit, Boston
  • Kristin Schreiber, Psychosocial and Psychophysical Predictors of Chronic Postsurgical Pain, CHRONIC POST-SURGICAL PAIN SYMPOSIUM, McMaster University, Toronto, Canada
  • Arthur Formanek; Cathy DiBiase; Peter Lee; Zachery Campbell; Wendy Collins; Tom Diaz; Riley Ferguson; Taania Girgla; Cyril Mani; Gwen Owens; Ganeev Singh; Sara Rothrock: “Cardiovascular Diseases and Conditions and Their Effects That May Impact the Commercial Space Flight Participant” in Ad Hoc Committee for Commercial Spaceflight Session. Aerospace Medicine Association Annual Meeting: Chicago, IL May 2024
  • James Philip: Developing and implementing anesthesia technology. Romanian Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Congress – SRATI 2024, 15-19 May.

Contact Us:

Do you have an upcoming presentation which you would like to add to this list? Please email Kristin Schreiber or Adam Greenberg.

Adam Greenberg, Project Manager for Faculty Development

Email: agreenberg@bwh.harvard.edu

Dr. Kristin Schreiber, Vice Chair of Faculty Development
Email: klschreiber@bwh.harvard.edu

Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston MA 02115
(617) 732-8210