Faculty

Adam Amundson, MD, attended residency and completed a fellowship in regional anesthesia at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and is currently a Mayo Clinic anesthesiology consultant. His research interests include perioperative outcomes in regional anesthesia, and practice optimization. He is one of the original members of the orthopedic perioperative surgical home OASIS group at Mayo Clinic and very involved in regional anesthesia education and teaching ultrasound-guided workshops.

David Auyong, MD, is the medical director of the Lindeman Ambulatory Surgery Center and section head of orthopedic anesthesiology at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, WA. His research focuses on improving patient outcomes with regional anesthesia, most recently with blocks like the continuous adductor canal block and suprascapular nerve block. He has co-authored a popular textbook, Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia, now in its second edition. Dr. Auyong is often recognized by his videos on YouTube describing ultrasound guided regional anesthesia approaches to many different nerve blocks.

W. Michael Bullock, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor at Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC.  He graduated in 2010 with an MD and PhD from the University of New Mexico in 2010 and completed residency and fellowship in regional anesthesiology at Duke University Hospital in 2015. He remained on staff at Duke where he is currently director of resident education for the regional anesthesiology rotation and assistant program director for the regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine fellowship. His research interests include ultrasound-guided nerve blockade, tourniquet hypertension, gastric ultrasound, and trainee education.

David Creighton, MD, MS, has clinical interests and areas of expertise in regional anesthesia,  perioperative pain management, ambulatory and orthopedic anesthesia. He currently works at the University of North Carolina, where he practices in both academic and community settings. He completed his medical degree at Columbia University, anesthesiology residency at Stanford University, and fellowship training in regional anesthesia at Duke University. He is originally from Vancouver, Canada.

Derek Dillane, MB BCh, FCARCSI, is an associate professor at University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, where he completed a clinical and research fellowship in regional anesthesia in 2006. His clinical research interests involve the use of ultrasound in regional anesthesia with a particular focus on education and training techniques. He has taught and led numerous ultrasound workshops in North America and internationally. He is a past chair of the Canadian Anesthesia Society Regional Anesthesia Section. 

Daniel Gessner, MD, is a clinical assistant professor of anesthesiology at Stanford University in the Division of Regional Anesthesia. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Oberlin College prior to moving to California for medical school at Stanford University. After residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital, he returned to the Bay Area to complete a fellowship in regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine at Stanford Health Care/Palo Alto VA.

Stuart Grant, MBChB, MMCI, graduated from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and trained in anesthesiology in Glasgow before taking an appointment in the Department of Anesthesiology at Duke University in 2002. He earned his masters in Management Clinical Informatics while at Duke University. He is now chief of the Division of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He has multiple publications on the use of regional anesthesia in major joint replacement, and in ambulatory surgery. His textbook “Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia” is now in its second edition. Dr. Grant currently serves on ASRA Pain Medicine board of directors and its CME Committee. 

Andrew Gray, MD, PhD, is a professor of clinical anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco, where he directs the regional anesthesia program at San Francisco General Hospital. He has written more than 20 articles and two textbooks on ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia and now pursues investigations on safety and efficacy of new regional anesthetic techniques. 

Akua Gyambibi, BSc, MD, FRCPC, grew up in Edmonton, Canada where she attended medical school and completed her anesthesiology residency at the University of Alberta in 2020. During her training, she developed a passion for regional anesthesia and completed fellowship training in regional anesthesia and acute pain at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2021. Upon returning to Edmonton, she joined the University of Alberta department of anesthesiology and practices jointly at the University of Alberta Hospital and Misericordia Community Hospital. In her spare time, she enjoys travelling and relaxing in the Rocky Mountains.

Sakura Kinjo, MD, is a clinical professor at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she is the anesthesia medical director of the orthopedic ambulatory surgery center. She is board certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine by the American Board of Anesthesiology. Dr. Kinjo is actively involved in education, clinical research, and administration within UCSF department of anesthesia.

Eman Nada, MBBCH, PhD, is an associate professor, chief of regional anesthesia, and medical director of the acute pain service at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. She has completed a regional anesthesia fellowship and another in neuroanesthesia at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She is passionate about education, which she demonstrates through participating in workshops and other educational activities. She believes in the importance of having strong knowledge of anatomy to be a good regional anesthesiologist. Her interests include prolonging nerve blocks and integrating them into the multimodal pathway to reduce or even replace the use of opioids.

Antoun M. Nader, MD, is a professor in the department of anesthesiology and orthopedics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. He is the section chief for regional anesthesia and acute pain management at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the medical director for acute pain medicine. He is also the fellowship co-director for the adult and pediatric regional anesthesia and acute pain management fellowship at McGaw Medical center, Northwestern University. Dr. Nader is board certified in anesthesiology, with a subspecialty certification in pain management. He is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, ASRA Pain Medicine, and the Association of University Anesthesiologists. With interests in neuroanesthesiology and pain management, he is engaged in numerous activities, including authorship, editorial work, grant review, lecturing for many societies. During his medical career in pain management, he has authored and coauthored more than 150 original peer-reviewed articles, editorials, reviews, books, commentaries, case reports, and technical notes. He is very involved in the development of institutional pathways for regional anesthesia and pain management protocols that have resulted in publications in major anesthesia journals.

Monika Nanda, MBBS, MPH, is an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She has served as the fellowship director of regional anesthesiology and acute pain fellowship for 5 years and is actively involved in teaching residents and fellows. she has organized cadaveric courses in ultrasound guided regional anesthesia involving procedural simulation and anatomic dissection for residents, fellows, and faculty. she has taught at numerous ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia workshops, PBLDs, and refresher lectures at national and regional conferences. Her research interests include simulation, novel education methods in regional anesthesia, clinical and quality improvement research. She holds various committee and special interest groups appointments at ASRA Pain Medicine and UNC School of Medicine.

Rohit Rahangdale, MD, is an anesthesiologist in Chicago, IL, and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He received his medical degree from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Dr. Rahangdale enjoys sailing, tennis, golf, and learning about regional anesthesia adjuvants. 

Kristopher Schroeder, MD, lives and works in Madison, WI where he serves as the section chief for the regional anesthesia and acute pain management section at the University of Wisconsin. He currently serves as the Editor of the ASRA News and welcomes suggestions for future topics and authors.  Outside of work, he enjoys spending time running, biking and traveling with his three daughters and Veterinary Anesthesiologist wife.

Melinda Seering, MD, FASA, is from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics where she did her residency and returned to practice there 12 years ago after a brief stint in private practice.  She is the current clinical director of the ambulatory surgery center there.  She is a member of the hospital’s acute pain team is current program director of the regional anesthesia and pain medicine fellowship there.  She has worked to establish a regional program in the ambulatory surgery center and is the current director of ambulatory regional anesthesia.  She is active in resident education on regional and acute pain for the department.  She is active in research and has had many peer-reviewed publications book chapters and funded research for this.  Recently she is looking at chronic breast pain and regional anesthesia as well as Exparel with shoulder surgery.  She is the alternate director from Iowa to the BOD of the ASA and serves on committees there, through the ASA and SAMBA.  She is also a former president of the Iowa Society of Anesthesiologist.  Due to these, she is active in advocacy for our specialty.  Overall, she has a passion for teaching regional anesthesia to trainees, fellows and colleagues to improve patient care, safety and surgical experiences.

Luminita Tureanu, MD, FRCPC, is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL. She is board certified in anesthesiology and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Tureanu completed her anesthesiology residency and chronic pain fellowship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and the regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine fellowship at Western University, London, ON, Canada. Her interests include teaching evidence-based ultrasound guided regional anesthesia and multimodal analgesia to residents and fellows.