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
• Sarah M. Cocoma, MD
  • Residency Program Director
  • Director of Critical Care
  • Director of Liver Transplant Anesthesia
• Deepali Garg, MD, Director of NORA (Non-Operating Room Anesthesia)
• Shuchi Jain, DO, Director of Medical Student Education
• Neal Mehta, MD, Director of Regional Anesthesia & Acute Pain Management
• Parag Patel, MD, Director of Ambulatory Anesthesia
• Edelberto Perez, MD
  • Director of OB Anesthesia
  • Liaison for Narcotic Audits
• Alisha Sachdev, MD, Director of Neuroanesthesia
• Behnoosh Shayegan, MD, Director of Pediatric Anesthesia
• Denis Snegovskikh, MD, Liaison to the RUSH Blood Bank Committee
• Tolga Suvar, MD
  • Director of Cancer Pain Management
  • Director for Pain Fellowship Program
• Alaeddin Tarhuni, MD, Director of Cardiac Anesthesia
  • Director of CVT
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Edwin Narvaez Torres, MD
• Edris Negron Rosal, 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
• Denis Snegovskikh, MD
• Max Soghikian, MD
• Alaeddin Tarhuni, MD
• Shameeta Vinod Thanki, DO
• 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