Description
The Role of Cannabinoids in Acute & Chronic Pain Treatment -Timothy Furnis, MD and Mark S Wallace MD
Contributors
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Timothy Furnish, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
Center for Pain Medicine
Pain Fellowship Program Director
UC San Diego Medical Center
Dr. Furnish is a board-certified anesthesiologist who specializes in pain management. As a pain management specialist, he evaluates, diagnoses and treats all forms of pain, particularly chronic pain and acute, post-surgical pain. Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology Center for Pain Medicine Pain Fellowship Program Director UC San Diego Medical Center. Dr. Furnish initiated and is now director of the inpatient pain consult services at UC San Diego Health’s Center for Pain Medicine. The inpatient pain consult service sees patients either before or after surgery to help their surgeons develop a post-operative pain management plan to facilitate recovery and comfort, and reduce the chances of developing chronic pain. His research and clinical focuses are on chronic neuropathic pain, complex regional pain syndrome, back pain and perioperative pain. Dr. Furnish is currently on the Society of Hospital Medicine’s Guidelines Committee Reducing Adverse Drug Events from Opioids and is co-chair of UC San Diego’s Pain Management Committee. -
Mark S. Wallace, MD
Dr. Wallace received his MD from Creighton University School of Medicine in 1987. He completed an Anesthesiology residency at the University of Maryland followed by an NIH training grant fellowship and a Clinical Pain Fellowship in the Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego (UCSD). He is currently a Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and the Chair, Division of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology, UCSD School of Medicine. He is also the Director, Division of Clinical Research in the UCSD Clinical and Translational Institute (CTRI) and sub-investigator for the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award which supports the CTRI. Dr. Wallace is past Associate Editor for the Clinical Journal of Pain and served as the chair of the University of California San Diego IRB from 2002-2018.