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Department of Anesthesiology Clinical Academic Building - 125 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901


About the department

The Department of Anesthesiology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is a large and diverse academic anesthesia group providing comprehensive anesthesia services for more than 15,000 procedures annually at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. The department maintains a staff of more than 27 board-certified faculty members, all of whom hold full academic appointments at the medical school. We maintain a fully accredited Anesthesia Residency Training Program, as well as offer fellowship training in pain management, cardiac anesthesia and obstetrical anesthesia. Most faculty members are actively engaged in basic science and clinical research, and frequently publish in peer-reviewed journals. Many have major intramural or extramural grant funding to support their ongoing research. A number of faculty members hold doctorates and/or subspecialty certification in pain management, critical care medicine, transesophageal echocardiography or neonatal-perinatal medicine. In addition to the anesthesiology certification, some of the faculty are also board-certified in internal medicine and pediatrics. Read more...

Physicians & Professionals

Chair
Keith Lewis, MD



Current programs

Cardiac Anesthesia

The Cardiac Anesthesia division consists of board-certified anesthesiologists who are faculty members of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School who have a special interest in cardiac anesthesia. The primary focus of the Cardiac Anesthesia division is to provide excellence in anesthesia care for patients who are undergoing heart or major thoracic vascular surgery.

Director

Alann R. Solina, MD

Clinical Academic Building (CAB)
125 Paterson Street, Suite 3100
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-235-7827

New Jersey Pain Institute

The Department of Anesthesiology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School operates a comprehensive multidisciplinary pain management center. The New Jersey Pain Institute offers diagnosis and treatment for acute, chronic and cancer pain problems. The Acute Pain Service is on call for various postoperative, medical and oncologic pain control. Outpatients who have chronic pain problems are seen on a referral basis and have available to them the latest, broadest techniques for pain treatment.

Special Services

  • Special nerve block therapy with or without fluoroscopy
  • Innovative neuro-augmentive procedures
  • Spinal opioid pump implantation
  • Neurolytic procedures
  • Epiduroscopic procedures
  • Psychological evaluation and management
  • Physiotherapy

Director

Scott J. Mellender

Clinical Academic Building (CAB)
125 Paterson Street, 5th Floor, Suite 5123
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-235-7246


Full list of locations

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
1 Robert Wood Johnson Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

New Jersey Pain Institute
125 Paterson Street, 5th Floor, Suite 5123
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Southern Ocean County Hospital
1140 Route 72 West
Manahawkin, NJ 08050



Participating Providers (84)

Temitope A. Adegbola
Sajida Ahmad, MD (732) 937-8841
Rose S. Alloteh, MD (732) 937-8841
Jeremy L. Baron, MD (732) 937-8841
Sylviana S. Barsoum, MD (732) 937-8841
Anilchandra I. Bhagat (732) 937-8841
Alan Caces (732) 937-8841
Renu Chhokra, MD (732) 937-8841
Christina W. Chin, MD (732) 289-9100
Antonio Chiricolo, MD (732) 937-8841
Shaul Cohen, MD (732) 937-8841
Jennifer L. Cowell, MD (732) 937-8841
Meneka Dave
Vincent J. DeAngelis, MD (732) 937-8841
Howard W. Denenberg, MD (732) 937-8841
Joseph Ebert (732) 937-8841
May Fernandez, MD (732) 937-8841
Ryan Fields (732) 937-8841
Christine W. Fratzola, MD (732) 937-8841
Jan Gajewski, MD (732) 937-8841
Catherine A. Gerace, CRNA (732) 937-8841
Akshay Goyal (732) 937-8841
Jeremy S. Grayson, MD (732) 937-8841
Jessica L. Grevesen, CRNA (732) 937-8841
Supreet Grewal (732) 937-8841
William R. Grubb, MD, DDS (732) 937-8841
Oleg Gusakov (732) 937-8841
Dennis B. Hall, MD (732) 937-8841
Stephanie Jean-Noel (732) 937-8841
Robert Jongco (732) 289-9100
Preeti Joshi, MD (732) 937-8841
Harald J. Kiamzon, MD (732) 937-8841
Samuel Y. Kiel, MD (732) 937-8841
Geza K. Kiss, MD (732) 937-8841
Benjamin R. Landgraf, MD (732) 937-8841
Oleksiy Lelyanov, DO (732) 937-8841
Keith Lewis, MD (732) 235-7246
Mohammed F. Malik (732) 937-8841
Alexander N. Manning (732) 289-9100
James V. Marco, MD (609) 978-3400
Brian Maxfield (732) 937-8841
Christian P. McDonough, MD (732) 937-8841
Francis McGrath (732) 937-8841
Valerie McRae, MD (732) 937-8841
Scott J. Mellender, MD (732) 937-8841
Bharath Mittapalli (732) 937-8841
Mina A. Morgan, DO (732) 937-8841
Edward V. Mosenkis
Sagar S. Mungekar, MD (732) 937-8841
Aleksandr Myachikov (732) 937-8841
Maciej Nawracaj (732) 937-8841
Andres F. Ocampo-Salazar, MD (732) 937-8841
Enrique J. Pantin, MD (732) 937-8841
Denes Papp, MD (732) 937-8841
Ajitkumar Gun Patel, MD (732) 937-8841
Jessica Perez, MD (732) 937-8841
Manuel A. Perez, MD (732) 937-8841
Sahitya Puttreddy (732) 937-8841
Brian J. Raffel, DO (732) 937-8841
Vincent Reformato (732) 937-8841
Gerardo Rodriguez (732) 937-8841
Robert Ross (732) 937-8841
Krista Ruedy, MD (732) 937-8841
Manasee Sant
Stephen Schepel, MD (732) 937-8841
Shruti Shah, MD (732) 937-8841
Ushma Shah, MD (732) 937-8841
Timothy Shi (732) 937-8841
Reymond Sio, MD (732) 937-8841
Daniel B. Smith (732) 937-8841
Sherif A. Sonbol, MD (732) 937-8841
Sho Tanaka (732) 937-8841
JayeshKumar Thaker, MD (732) 937-8841
Maria Tobias (732) 235-7246
Hosana R. Tordecilla, CRNA, RN, BSM, OCN (732) 937-8841
Kimberly M. Trojak (732) 937-8841
James Tse, MD, PhD (732) 937-8841
Nisha Vijay (732) 289-9100
Michael Wassef
Julie A. Wise (732) 235-7246
Donglei Yan (732) 937-8841
John T. Yoo (732) 937-8841
Thomas Zimmerman, CRNA (732) 937-8841
Dora D. Zuker, MD (732) 937-8841



More About Us

The New Jersey Pain Institute is the multidisciplinary pain management section of the Department of Anesthesiology. The Institute's Acute Pain Management Service cares for more than 8,500 medical, surgical, obstetrical and pediatric inpatients annually. The Acute Pain Management Service uses state-of-the-art techniques, such as patient-controlled epidural analgesia (walking epidural), continuous spinal/epidural analgesia, intravenous patient-controlled analgesia, continuous epidural analgesia and continuous neural blockade therapies.

The New Jersey Pain Institute treats more than 2,000 outpatients annually and is a tertiary referral center for the entire Mid-Atlantic region. The Institute is responsible for evaluating and treating the entire spectrum of acute and chronic pain, such as back pain, neuropathic pain, myofacial pain and headache. It provides the most up-to-date therapies available to treat cancer pain, including implanted pumps for continuous intraspinal medication infusion and neuroablative blocks under fluoroscopic or computer tomographic guidance. Our pain therapy capability includes a complete array of nerve blocks, radiofrequency thermocoagulation (RFTC) neurolysis, epiduroscopy, cryoanalgesia and implantables, such as spinal cord stimulators and intraspinal infusion pumps. Medical therapy, physical modalities, psychotherapy and physical therapy are also available on-site, rounding out one of the most comprehensive pain medicine treatment facilities in the region.

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