Rebecca B. Siegel
Michael D. Robinson
Asli Ozcan
Elisa Chiu
Johnny Tran
Dr. Tran's clinical focus includes providing general anesthesia and regional nerve blocks for patients undergoing surgery. In addition, he provides inpatient acute pain consultations and sees patients as an outpatient for chronic pain. He uses evidence-based and a multi-modal approach to treat chronic pain that includes medications, therapy, and fluoroscopic or ultrasound-guided interventions.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
Dr. Tran has a particular interest in treating post-surgical chronic pain.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<p>Johnny Tran, MD, is an anesthesiologist and Clinical Assistant Professor at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Tran’s clinical focus includes providing general anesthesia and regional nerve blocks for patients undergoing surgery. In addition, he provides inpatient acute pain consultations and sees patients as an outpatient for chronic pain. To treat chronic pain, he uses evidence-based and a multi-modal approach that includes medications, therapy and fluoroscopic or ultrasound-guided interventions.</p><p>In 2013, Dr. Tran received his Bachelor of Arts in biochemistry and molecular biology from Hendrix College. He then pursued his medical education at University of Iowa, earning his Doctor of Medicine in 2017. He started his postgraduate training at University of Michigan Hospitals and Clinics, completing his anesthesiology residency in 2021. He continued his training with a tri-instuitutional pain medicine fellowship with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, completing it in 2022.</p><p>Dr. Tran has a particular research interest in treating postsurgical chronic pain. He has shared his work through peer-reviewed publications, oral presentations, posters, abstracts and lectures.</p><p>Dr. Tran is certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology.</p>
Syed Hosain
Sayed E. Wahezi
<p>Dr. Wahezi earned his medical degree from the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Buffalo and completed his Residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Montefiore Medical Center, where he served as Chief Resident. He then completed an Interventional Spine fellowship at Spine Technology and Rehabilitation under the mentorship of Joseph D. Fortin. Following his training he completed a Pain Medicine Fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center, where he cultivated the clinical and academic development of the Pain Program.</p>
<p>Dr. Wahezi currently serves as Associate Professor of PMR and Anesthesiology at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City where he serves as the Program Director of the ACGME accredited Pain Fellowship. He has created a fellowship with an interventional focus and multidisciplinary foundation. His mission is to create an academic environment which fosters the growth of Pain Medicine by education and investigation/development of new devices and techniques.</p>
<p>Dr. Wahezi is a long-standing member of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), New York Pain Society (NYPS), Association of Academic Physiatrists, New York Pain Society (NYPS), and Eastern Pain Association. He is a nominated AAPMR delegate representative for the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Expert Panel on Pain Management, nominated representative on ASIPP’s expert lumbar stenosis panel and the Board of Directors for the NYPS. He is a graduate of the Academy of Academic Physiatrists’ (AAP) Program for Academic Leadership (PAL), nominated Board of Director member for the Academy of Pain Program Directors (APPD), Reviewer and Editor for the <em>Pain Physician Journal</em>, co-director of for American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) membership council. He is also a nominated member of the Promotions Committee at Montefiore/Einstein. In addition, he is a nominated <em>Super Doctor</em>, as identified by the New York Times Magazine.</p>
<p>Dr. Wahezi has authored more than fifty publications in peer reviewed pain journals, book chapters, abstracts, and posters. He has presented several lectures at national meetings, and has given more than 150 academic lectures in Pain Management. He is actively involved in basic science and clinical studies in Pain management. His basic science interests include the physiology of neuropathic and orthopedic pain. His clinical research interests include innovative percutaneous pain treatments.</p>
Dr. Wahezi’s clinical focus is in interventional pain medicine.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
Dr. Wahezi’s research interests include innovative percutaneous pain treatments and his basic science interests include the physiology of neuropathic and orthopedic pain. He is actively involved in basic science and clinical studies in pain management. <quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<p>Sayed Emal Wahezi, MD, is Professor and Program Director of the Pain Medicine Fellowship at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Wahezi’s clinical focus is in interventional pain medicine.</p><p>A graduate of State University of New York at Buffalo, Dr. Wahezi earned his Doctor of Medicine in 2005. He completed his internal medicine internship at Cornell University, New York Hospital, Queens in 2006, then came to Montefiore to complete his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation in 2009, serving as chief resident in his final year. In 2010, Dr. Wahezi completed his interventional spine and musculoskeletal fellowship at Spine Technology and Rehabilitation, then returned to Montefiore to complete a pain medicine fellowship in 2013, and created the clinical and academic foundation for Pain Medicine at Montefiore.</p><p>Dr. Wahezi’s research interests include innovative percutaneous pain treatments and his basic science interests include the physiology of neuropathic and orthopedic pain. He is actively involved in basic science and clinical studies in pain management. Dr. Wahezi has authored more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed pain journals, book chapters, abstracts and posters. Many of Dr. Wahezi’s publications have led to the innovation of novel interventional pain procedures. He has given more than 200 academic lectures in pain management across the country. He is a reviewer and editor for several pain journals.</p><p>Dr. Wahezi is certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is a long-standing member of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), American Academy of Pain Medicine, New York Pain Society (NYPS), Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP), Eastern Pain Association (EPA) and Association of Pain Program Directors (APPD). He is a nominated American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPMR) delegate representative for the American Medical Association’s Expert Panel on Pain Management, nominated representative on ASIPP’s expert lumbar stenosis panel and the Board of Directors for the NYPS. He is also a graduate of the AAP Program for Academic Leadership (PAL) and a past president of the APPD. He serves on the Board of Directors for American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA), is a member of the Educational Council for the Association of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN), and is a co-director for the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) membership council.</p>
Amaresh Vydyanathan
<p>Clinical: Anesthesiology/Pain Medicine (Interventional expertise) /Regional Anesthesia.</p>
<p>Research: Neuropathic pain, development of chronic pain, patient safety.</p>
Interventional pain management, including Tenex procedures, spinal stimulation, and vertebral augmentation.
Pain outcomes, disparity, pain personas, regional anesthesia, and aspects of interventional pain.
<p>Amaresh Vydyanathan , MD, MS, is an attending physician and Professor, Anesthesiology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Vydyanathan’s clinical focus lies in interventional pain management, including tenex procedures, spinal stimulation and vertebral augmentation. He has a particular interest in pain outcomes.</p><p>After earning his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at Kilpauk Medical College in Chennai, India in 1997, Dr. Vydyanathan completed an internship at the same institution in 1998. He then completed his anesthesiology residency at The Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research in Pondicherry, India in 2002. Following this, Dr. Vydyanathan moved to the United States to continue his medical training, earning his Master of Science in integrative biosciences-neurosciences at Pennsylvania State University in 2004. He then attended the Cleveland Clinic, where he completed an internship in 2006, an additional anesthesiology residency in 2009 and a fellowship in pain medicine in 2010.</p><p>Dr. Vydyanathan’s research interests are in pain outcomes, disparity, pain personas, regional anesthesia and aspects of interventional pain. He has been principal investigator on a number of funded research projects and his work has been shared through numerous peer-reviewed journals, books, chapters, review articles and invited presentations. Dr. Vydyanathan is also a reviewer for several scientific journals, including <em>Pain Medicine, US Neurology</em> and the <em>Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing</em>, among others.</p><p>Dr. Vydyanathan is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists. In 2014, he was the winner of the third place Young Investigator Symposium at Montefiore Einstein.</p>