Dr. Ajay D Wasan MD, MSC
Pain Management Specialist | Pain Medicine
5750 CENTRE AVE STE 260 PITTSBURGH PA, 15206Rating
4/5
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Dr. Ajay Wasan practices Pain Medicine in Boston, MA. 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. Wasan 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.
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Pain Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Femoral nailing with transverse locking screws through the femoral neck.
- A case-matching study of the analgesic properties of electroconvulsive therapy.
- The association between negative affect and opioid analgesia in patients with discogenic low back pain.
- Urine toxicology screening among chronic pain patients on opioid therapy: frequency and predictability of abnormal findings.
- Phase 1A safety assessment of intravenous amitriptyline.
- Comment on Ballantyne and LaForge, Opioid dependence and addiction during opioid treatment of chronic pain. Pain 2007;129:235-55.
- Practice patterns and treatment choices among psychiatrists in New Delhi, India: a qualitative and quantitative study.
- Safety and efficacy of duloxetine in the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain in older patients.
- Spinal cord stimulation in a workers' compensation population: how difficult it can be to interpret a clinical trial.
- Gender differences in risk factors for aberrant prescription opioid use.
- Commentary: "electroconvulsive stimulation (ECS) increases the expression of neuropeptide Y (NPY) in rat brains in a model of neuropathic pain: a quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) study," by Okabe and colleagues.
- Substance misuse treatment for high-risk chronic pain patients on opioid therapy: a randomized trial.
- A fMRI evaluation of lamotrigine for the treatment of trigeminal neuropathic pain: pilot study.
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- The catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) val158met polymorphism affects brain
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