Faculty and Staff

Chairperson

Asokumar Buvanendran, MD

Vice Chairs

• Brian W. Birmingham, MD, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs
• Robert J. McCarthy, PharmD, Vice Chair for Research Affairs
• Behnoosh Shayegan, MD, Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs

Department Leadership

• Brian W. Birmingham, MD
  • Clinical Director
  • Director, CVT
• Sarah M. Cocoma, MD, 
  • Residency Program Director,
  • Critical Care, 
  • Director Liver Transplant Anesthesia
• Deepali Garg, MD, Director of NORA (Non-Operating Room Anesthesia)
• Shuchi Jain, DO, Director of Medical Student Education
• Timothy R. Lubenow, MD, Pain Medicine
• Neal Mehta, MD, Regional Anesthesia & Acute Pain Management
• Parag Patel, MD, Ambulatory Anesthesia
• Edelberto Perez, MD, OB Anesthesia
  • Liaison for Narcotic Audits
• Behnoosh Shayegan, MD, Pediatric Anesthesia
• Eric Sloan, MD, Director of Anesthesia for GI Services
• Denis Snegovskikh, MD, Liaison to the RUSH Blood Bank Committee
• Tolga Suvar, MD, Director of Cancer Pain Management
  • Director of Cancer Pain Management
  • Fellowship Program Director
  • Director for Pain Fellowship Program
• Alaeddin Tarhuni, MD, Director of Anesthesia for the Structural Hart Program
• Edwin Narvaez Torres, MD, Director of ENT Anesthesia
• Michael Tripp, MD, Assistant Patient Safety Officer (PSO)

 Pain Medicine Faculty

• Sandeep D. Amin, MD
• Asokumar Buvanendran, MD
• Matthew Jaycox, MD
• Timothy R. Lubenow, MD
• Kevin Shi, MD
• Tolga Suvar, MD

Clinical Faculty

• Sandra Barcelona, MD
• Shruti Bassi, MD
• Joel Biala, MD
• Brian W. Birmingham, MD
• Sarah M. Cocoma, MD
• Elizabeth Cooney, MD
• Joy Degani, MD
• Margaret Griesemer, DO
• Lakshmi Iyer, MD
• Shuchi Jain, DO
• George Katsoyannis, MD
• Ashley Kydes, MD
• Marijana Ljubanovic-Lazarevic, MD
• Edmund B. Mangahas, MD
• William McDade, MD, PhD
• Neal Mehta, MD
• Kadhiresan  Murugappan, MD
• Brian A. Myers, DO
• Shameeta Vinod Thanki, DO
• Edwin Narvaez Torres, MD
• Lindsay Nowak, MD
• Christopher O'Connor, MD
• Steven L. Outly, MD
• Parag Patel, MD
• Edelberto Perez, MD
• Wieslaw Podlasek, MD
• Jeffery Podnar, MD
• Richard J. Ropp, MD
• David M. Rothenberg, MD
• Alisha Sachdev, MD
• Matthew Shaw, MD
• Behnoosh Shayegan, MD
• David J. Sklar, MD
• Eric Sloan, MD
• Denis Snegovskikh, MD
• Alaeddin Tarhuni, MD
• Phil Traylor, MD
• Michael Tripp, MD

Research

• Vaskar Das, Ph.D
• Robert J. McCarthy, PharmD 
• Mario Moric, MS, Biostatistician 

Staff

• April Bradley, Administrator
• Alexandra Bernal, MHA, Residency Coordinator, Pain Medicine and Regional Fellowship Coordinator
• Theresa M. Orozco, Senior Residency Coordinator, Senior Pain Medicine and Regional Fellowship Coordinator
• Melissa Sams-Carey, Director of Operations
• Emily Sandoval, Residency Coordinator, Pain Medicine and Regional Fellowship Coordinator