Dr. Mohab M Ibrahim MD., PH.D.
Pain Management Specialist | Interventional Pain Medicine
1501 N Campell Dept Of Surgery Tucson AZ, 85724Rating
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About
Dr. Mohab Ibrahim practices Pain Medicine in Tucson, AZ. Pain medicine is concerned with the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients experiencing pain. Pain medicine physicians use a broad-based approach to treat all pain disorders, ranging from pain as a symptom of disease to pain as the primary disease. Dr. Ibrahim serves as a consultant to other physicians but is often the principal treating physician, providing care at various levels; such as treating the patient directly, prescribing medication, prescribing rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counseling patients and families, directing a multidisciplinary team, coordinating care with other healthcare providers, and providing consultative services.
Education and Training
University of Arizona College of Medicine 2008
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Inhibition of pain responses by activation of CB(2) cannabinoid receptors.
- CB2 cannabinoid receptor agonists: pain relief without psychoactive effects?
- Activation of CB2 cannabinoid receptors by AM1241 inhibits experimental neuropathic pain: pain inhibition by receptors not present in the CNS.
- Inhibition of inflammatory hyperalgesia by activation of peripheral CB2 cannabinoid receptors.
- Production of paradoxical sensory hypersensitivity by alpha 2-adrenoreceptor agonists.
- CB2 cannabinoid receptor activation produces antinociception by stimulating peripheral release of endogenous opioids.
- CB2 cannabinoid receptor mediation of antinociception.
- Regular exercise reverses sensory hypersensitivity in a rat neuropathic pain
- Synergistic attenuation of chronic pain using mu opioid and cannabinoid receptor 2 agonists.
- Long-lasting antinociceptive effects of green light in acute and chronic pain in rats.
- CRISPR/Cas9 editing of Nf1 gene identifies CRMP2 as a therapeutic target in neurofibromatosis type 1-related pain that is reversed by (S)-Lacosamide.
Awards
- PhD: Pain-Modulating Effects of Peripheral (CB2) Cannabinoid Receptors 2002 University of Arizona Masters: CB2 Cannabinoid Receptor Agonist: Inhib
Fellowships
- Massachusetts General Hospital Interventional Chronic Pain Management 2013
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Fellow:Pain Medicine 2012
- , MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL/HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, BOSTON, MA Pain Medicine Anesthesiology 2012
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