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Discrepancy between patient reported percent pain relief and calculated pain score reductions following medial branch nerve blocks
ASPN Annual Meeting 2025
Impact of Educational Posters on Patient Understanding of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Safety
ASPN Annual Meeting 2025
Survey of pain medicine curriculum during physical medicine residency
ASPN Annual Meeting 2025
Passive patient education on factors affecting pain perception via informational poster
ASPN Annual Meeting 2025
A case of radicular pain associated with cervical nerve root hypertrophy in CMT1A
ASPN Annual Meeting 2025
A randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of an explanatory video compared to a generic relaxation video on patient anxiety during interventional pain procedures.
ASPN Annual Meeting 2025
Predictive value of DOWN questionnaire for cervical spondylotic myelopathy among Pain Management patients: a retrospective analysis
NANS Annual Meeting 2025
Ventral spinal cord stimulation
NANS Annual Meeting 2025
Prevalence of side effects in patients with past documentation of radiocontrast allergy to radiocontrast used in fluoroscopic procedures.
AAP Annual Meeting 2025
Infrapatellar branch of the saphenous nerve radiofrequency ablation for refractory knee pain
AAP Annual Meeting 2025
Ketamine infusion for anxiety and depression in chronic pain patients
AAP Annual Meeting 2025
Naloxone prescription fill rate in chronic opioid managed patients
AAP Annual Meeting 2025
Spinal Cord Stimulation versus Intrathecal Pain Pump for Treating Lumbar Radiculopathy: Outcomes, Complications, and Further Interventions
AAP Annual Meeting 2025
Opioid prescription patterns in SI Joint Fusion Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study
AAP Annual Meeting 2025
Sleep aid use in chronic pain population
AAP Annual Meeting 2025
Association of Sleep Disturbance with Catastrophizing and Chronic Pain
ASRA Annual Meeting 2024
Comparing outcomes using the pain scale versus disability function scale of patients undergoing medial branch blocks and radiofrequency ablation: a retrospective chart review.
ASRA Annual Meeting 2024
Survey of Pain Medicine Education During Neurology Residency
ASRA Annual Meeting 2024
Prevalence of Needle Bending for Fluoroscopic-guided Injections
ASRA Annual Meeting 2024
Trends in Demographics and Health Characteristics of Medicare Beneficiaries Receiving Interventional Pain Management Services.
ASRA Annual Meeting 2024
Geographic Distribution and Access Disparities of Interventional Pain Management Physicians Across RUCA Codes
ASRA Annual Meeting 2024
Gender Differences in Charges, Payments, Practice Volume, & Drug Utilization in Interventional Pain Management
ASRA Annual Meeting 2024
Gender Differences Between Male and Female Interventional Pain Management Physicians by CPT Code Utilization and Payment
ASRA Annual Meeting 2024
Radiofrequency Ablation for the Treatment of Cervicogenic Headaches
ASRA Annual Meeting 2024
Patient Perception of Culturally Competent Care in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Chronic Pain Patients
ASA Annual Meeting 2024
Incidence of Osteoporosis and Osteopenia following Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection
AAPMR Annual Meeting 2024
Impact of Opioid Use Prior to Spinal Cord Stimulation for Refractory Lumbar Radiculopathy on Post-Implantation Healthcare Utilization
AAPMR Annual Meeting 2024
Patient perception of competent care in a nationally representative sample of U.S. chronic pain patients
ASA Annual Meeting 2024
Impact of the Cough Stimulation System on Respiratory Tract Infections in SCI
ASCIP Annual Conference 2024
Impact of acute opioid use following lumbar epidural injections on subsequent healthcare utilization.
NASS Annual Conference. 2024
Impact of body mass index on opioid prescriptions following lumbar spine surgery.
NASS Annual Conference. 2024
Anxiety and Depression in chronic pain patients
ASPN Annual Meeting 2024
Trends in Submitted Charges to Payment Ratios in Interventional Pain Management: A Medicare Analysis of 2013 - 2022
ASPN Annual Meeting 2024
Prospective analysis of genicular nerve block volumes and capture areas in sagittal fluoroscopic view
ASPN Annual Meeting 2024
A quality improvement project to evaluated patient satisfaction with Oswestry disability index in outpatient pain management visits
ASPN Annual Meeting 2024
Decreasing inflation-adjusted reimbursement for interventional pain management procedures: a Medicare fee schedule analysis from 2000-2022
ASPN Annual Meeting 2024
A Medicare analysis of the top 15 most frequently utilized CPT codes in interventional pain management
ASPN Annual Meeting 2024
Assessing sleep disturbance in chronic pain patients to determine unmet need as well as to validate a novel screener.
ASPN Annual Meeting 2024
Mandatory Distraction and Pain Reduction for Fluoroscopic Procedures
ASPN Annual Meeting 2024
Average needle depth for knee joint injections
AAP Annual Meeting 2024
Stellate ganglion block of Post COVID headaches
AAP Annual Meeting 2024
Tobacco use in chronic pain population
AAP Annual Meeting 2024
Pain psychology scores on opioid compliance prediction
AAP Annual Meeting 2024
MRI guidance for CESI depth
AAP Annual Meeting 2024
Comparison of genicular blocks with and without steroids
AAP Annual Meeting 2024
Ventral Column Spinal Cord Stimulation: A Case Report
NANS Annual Meeting 2024
Patient compliance with naloxone prescriptions
ASRA Pain Annual Meeting 2023
Use of E-Cig in chronic pain
ASRA Pain Annual Meeting 2023
Duration of diagnostic genicular blocks
ASRA Pain Annual Meeting 2023
Duration of genicular blocks with steroids
ASRA Pain Annual Meeting 2023
Impact of BMI on Needle depth
ASRA Pain Annual Meeting 2023
Heated lidocaine on pain
ASRA Pain Annual Meeting 2023
Chronic Pain Disparities Based on Insurance Payor
ASRA Pain Annual Meeting 2023
Ventral spinal cord stimulation
AAPM Annual Meeting 2023
Stellate for Post COVID facial pain
AAPM Annual Meeting 2023
Duration of genicular nerve blocks
AAPM Annual Meeting 2023
Opioid management in Primary Care
AAPM Annual Meeting 2023
Side effects to epidural steroid injection
AAPM Annual Meeting 2023
Gender and pain fellowship
AAPM Annual Meeting 2023
MRI based Genicular Ablation
AAP Annual Meeting 2023
Insurance and Success Rate of SCS
NANS Annual Meeting 2023
Peripheral Nerve Stimulation in post TKA pain
NANS Annual Meeting 2023
Fluoroscopic Orientation on Radiation Scatter
ASRA Pain Annual Meeting 2022
Prognostic Value of Celiac Plexus Block on MALS
ASRA Pain Annual Meeting 2022
Use of MRI on CESI
ASRA Pain Annual Meeting 2022
Radiation Safety
ASPN Annual Meeting 2022
Disparity of spinal cord stimulation in the Medicaid population
NANS Annual Meeting 2022
Peripheral nerve stimulation for treatment of intractable headache
NANS Annual Meeting 2022
Treatment of knee pain with motor stimulation
NANS Annual Meeting 2022
Wahezi S, Pan J, Wright T, Ference R, Pak D, Calodney A, Nagar V, Deer T, Kim C, Yu T, Tian L, Farah F, Mosechler S. Enhancing Practice Value. Multidisciplinary Pain Medicine Feloowship. 2025
Grabnar M, Mueller R, Kim C. History of Radiofrequency ablation. Radiofrequency Ablation, interventional guide. Abd-Elsayed ed. 2024
Habibi B, Kim C. Mechanism of Action. Radiofrequency Ablation, interventional guide. Abd-Elsayed ed. 2024
Suric V, N, Mata N, Kim C. Knee. Radiofrequency Ablation, interventional guide. Abd-Elsayed ed. 2024
Olsen A, Beal C, Kim C. Anatomy: Cervical to Lumbar Spine. Atlas of Spinal Fusion. 2023
Hillery T, Mata N, Kim C. History of Neuromodulation. Neuromodulation Techniques for the Spine Abd-Elsayed eds. 2023
Nadherny W, Habibi B, Kim C. Important Topic in Intrathecal Devices- Understanding of Imaging, Location of Generator Placement and Anesthesia During Trial and Implants. Neuromodulation Techniques for the Spine. Abd-Elsayed eds. 2023
Van Acker G, Malinowski M, Kim C. Different Waveforms. Neuromodulation, interventional guide. Abd-Elsayed ed. 2023
Habibi B, Van Acker G, Kim C. Programming. Neuromodulation Techniques for the Spine Abd-Elsayed ed. 2023
Mata N, Mueller R, Kim C. Gastric Stimulation. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation. Trescot ed. 2023
Habibi B, Mata N, Kim C. Overactive Bladder. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation. Trescot ed. 2023
Grabnar M, Mueller R, Kim C. History of Radiofrequency ablation. Radiofrequency Ablation, interventional guide. Abd-Elsayed ed. 2023
Habibi B, Kim C. Mechanism of Action. Radiofrequency Ablation, interventional guide. Abd-Elsayed ed. 2023
Suric V, N, Mata N, Kim C. Knee. Radiofrequency Ablation, interventional guide. Abd-Elsayed ed. 2023
Habibi B, Kim C. Trigeminal Neuralgia. Anesthesiology In-Training Exam Review: Regional Anesthesia and Chronic Pain. Banik ed. 2022
Habibi B, Kim C. Occipital nerve block. Anesthesiology In-Training Exam Review: Regional Anesthesia and Chronic Pain. Banik ed. 2022
Habibi B, Cleland T, Kim C. Non-pharmacological management. A Comprehensive Guide for Managing Trigeminal Nerve Pain. Abd-Elsayed ed. 2021
Mata, N, Cleland C, Kim C. Cryotherapy. A Comprehensive Guide for Managing Trigeminal Nerve Pain. Abd-Elsayed ed. 2021
Peripheral Nerve Stimulation for Subacromial Impingement Syndrome
R01 NIH/NICHD
Transcutaneous Direct Current Motor Nerve Block for Spasticity
R01NIH
Evaluation of Spinal Cord Stimulation with Wire Leads to Restore an Effective Cough in Subjects with Spinal Cord Injury
U01NIH
KeyGrip- A simple FES system for hand grasp
Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership
Addressing the opioid epidemic through an all-Ohio collaborative medical school training curriculum.
MHA-19-MEDDIR-SOR-MedSchool-63
Eghrari NB, Yazji IH, Yavari B, Van Acker GM, Kim CH. Risk of dementia following gabapentin prescription in chronic low back pain patients. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2025 Jul 10:rapm-2025-106577.
Shermon S, Hillery T, Kim MM, Van Acker G, Kim CH. Evaluation of Genicular Nerve Blocks Durations With and Without Corticosteroid: A Single-blind, Randomized Controlled Trial. Pain Physician. 2025 Mar;28(2):127-135.
Mas D Alessandro NM, Nisar F, Elsharkawy H. Peripheral superior cluneal nerve stimulation for intractable low back pain: Combined fluoroscopy and ultrasound technique, A case series. Interv Pain Med. 2025 Feb 6;4(1):100542.
Grabnar M, Wilson R. Sex Differences in Rates of Spinal Cord Stimulation Therapy and Spinal Cord Stimulator Explants: A Propensity-Score Matched Analysis. Neuromodulation. 2025 Jan 7:S1094-7159(24)01268-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.12.002.
Hillery T, Hill H, Imka E, Di Lorenzo D, van Acker G, Kim C. MRI genicular nerve mapping: a novel approach to sagittal genicular nerve localization. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2024 Oct 26:rapm-2024-105981. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2024-105981.
El-Boghdadly K, Albrecht E, Wolmarans M, Mariano ER, Kopp S, Perlas A, Thottungal A, Gadsden J, Tulgar S, Adhikary S, Aguirre J, Agur AMR, Altıparmak B, Barrington MJ, Bedforth N, Blanco R, Bloc S, Boretsky K, Bowness J, Breebaart M, Burckett-St Laurent D, Carvalho B, Chelly JE, Chin KJ, Chuan A, Coppens S, Costache I, Dam M, Desmet M, Dhir S, Egeler C, Elsharkawy H, et al. Standardizing nomenclature in regional anesthesia: an ASRA-ESRA Delphi consensus study of upper and lower limb nerve blocks. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2024 Nov 4;49(11):782-792.
Dimarco A, Geertman R, Kim C, Nemunaitis G, Kowalski K. Effects of withdrawal and re-application of spinal cord stimulation to restore cough. The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. 2024 1-4
Kulhari S, Eghrari N, Chen M, Kim C. Infrapatellar branch of the saphenous nerve radiofrequency ablation for refractory knee pain: case series. Pain Medicine Case Reports. 2024;8(5):195-107.
Elsharkawy H, Lebak K, Crofton A, Pope SE, Traxler PA, Baraka SA, Tollinche LE. Retrodural space: a cadaveric evaluation. Anaesth Rep. 2024 Oct 17;12(2):e12323.
Cooper C, Fisher R, Eghrari N, Chen M, Kulhari S, Hosseini M, Kim C. Basic radiation safety practices: observed radiation doses in a phantom model. Pain Med. 2024 Sep 1;25(9):584-586.
Shermon S. Kim C. Impact of opioids and other medications on surgical outcome for cervical myelopathy. AJPMR. 103(8):p 703-709, August 2024.
DeCicco J, Raja F, Ganesan S, Kim C, El-Hayek K. Pediatric Outcomes After Robotic Median Arcuate Ligament Release, Celiac Ganglionectomy, and Lymphadenectomy. J Pediatr Surg. 2024 Aug 6:161664.
Eghrari NB, Chen M, Kim CH. Impact of Body Mass Index on Opioid Prescriptions Following Lumbar Spine Surgery. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2024 Jul 31.
Wahezi SE, Emerick TD, Caparó M, Choi H, Eshraghi Y, Naeimi T, Kohan L, Anitescu M, Wright T, Przkora R, Patel K, Lamer TJ, Moeschler S, Yener U, Alerte J, Grandhe R, Bautista A, Spektor B, Noon K, Reddy R, Osuagwu UC, Carpenter A, Gerges FJ, Horn DB, Murphy CA, Kim C, et al. The current state of training in pain medicine fellowships: An Association of Pain Program Directors (APPD) survey of program directors. Pain Pract. 2024 Mar 30.
Van Acker G, Kim CH. Ventral Column Spinal Cord Stimulation for Post Lumbar Laminectomy Syndrome: A Case Report. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2023 Apr 25. doi: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000002268. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37126791.
Kim S, Fazio K, Suric V, Van Acker G, Kim C. Comparison of MRI and Intra-Procedural Measurements A Case Series. Pain Medicine Case Reports. 2023:7;2.93-96.
Falowski S, Kim C, Obradovic M, Parker J. A Prospective Multi-Center Case Series Utilizing Intraoperative Neuromonitoring with Evoked Compound Action Potentials to Confirm Spinal Cord Stimulation Lead Placement. Neuromodulation. Neuromodulation. 2022 Jan 25:S1094-7159(21)06947-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neurom.2021.11.014. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35088735.
Suric V. Mata N, Hillery T, Kim C. Impact of Opioid Dose and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Chronic Opioid Patients Using STOP-Bang Questionnaire. Pain Physician. 2022 Nov;26(8):E1263-1267.
Habibi BA, Kim C, Elsharkawy H. Persistent and Chronic Perioperative Pain After Cancer Surgery. Curr Oncol Rep. 2022 Jan 21. doi: 10.1007/s11912-021-01152-5. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35061194.
Grabnar M, Roach MJ, Abd-Elsayed A, Kim C. Impact of lavender on pain and anxiety levels associated with spine procedures. Ochsner J. 2021 Winter;21(4):358-363. doi: 10.31486/toj.21.0013.
Chin KJ, Versyck B, Elsharkawy H, Rojas Gomez MF, Sala-Blanch X, Reina MA. Anatomical basis of fascial plane blocks. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2021 Jul;46(7):581-599. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2021-102506. PMID: 34145071.
Eshraghi Y, Chakravarthy K, Schuster N, Abdallah R, Vallejo R, Strand N, Sayed D, Kim D, Kim, C, Shirvalkar P, Meacham K, Deer T. The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN) Practical Guidelines to Study Design and Scientific Manuscript Preparation in Neuromodulation. J Pain Res. 2021;14:1027-1041’.
Van Acker G, Wilson R, Kim C. Peripheral nerve stimulation for the treatment of osteoarthritis knee pain. Interventional Pain Reports.2021; 5 (4):201.
Tsui BCH, Elsharkawy H, Mounir L, Kolli S, Narouze S, Drake R. Epidural placement using catheter over needle: a cadaver study. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2021 Mar 9:rapm-2021-102486. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2021-102486.
Spinal cord stimulation for restoration of cough
Pilot study to explore the measurement of impedance at the spinal cord stimulator electrode
MRI for anatomical analysis of genicular nerves
ECAP in ventral spinal cord stimulation
Motor nerve stimulation for the treatment of chronic pain due to osteoarthritis of the knee