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Ajay D. Wasan

Ajay D. Wasan BA, BS, MD, MSc

Psychiatry, Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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Dr. Wasan is the Vice Chair for Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology at UPMC and a Visiting Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He has particular expertise in interventional procedures, neuropathic pain medications, opioids, psychotropic medication, and the psychiatric co-morbidities of chronic pain.

Dr. Wasan also supervises clinical care across seven hospital pain clinics in the UPMC system, 10 clinical faculty members, the Department of Anesthesiology Pain Medicine Fellowship Program, and all Division of Pain Medicine research. This research is funded from a variety of sources, such as the National Institutes of Health and industry funds. Dr. Wasan’s current research interests are in the areas of tracking pain treatment outcomes using electronic records, mechanism-based treatment studies of negative affect in pain, quantitative sensory testing, FMRI, and in preventing prescription opioid misuse in patients with chronic pain.

Before coming to UPMC, Dr. Wasan was an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He was also the Director of the Section of Clinical Pain Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. In his clinical work, he saw patients at the Brigham and Women’s Pain Management Center, a multidisciplinary pain treatment center.
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