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To mark Pain Awareness Month, Dr. Dave Dickerson discusses pain management with Dr. Adam Striker. This wide-ranging conversation tackles the impact of COVID-19, the pros and cons of telehealth, the use of opioids and other treatments, the challenges of balancing risks and rewards, and the latest trends in pain management. Recorded September 2020.
David Dickerson, MD, is an anesthesiologist and pain medicine physician at the NorthShore University Health System where he serves as the section chief for pain medicine and medical director of anesthesia pain services. His research and clinical interests focus on acute and chronic pain care outcomes and implementing safe and effective pain care delivery systems. While at NorthShore, Dr. Dickerson co-authored a system-wide practice advisory on safe opioid prescribing and leads several quality improvement and clinical initiatives optimizing patient access to comprehensive pain care with an emphasis on non-opioids across the care continuum.
Prior to joining the NorthShore System, Dr. Dickerson served as director of the University of Chicago Medicine’s acute pain service and Chair for the institution’s Pain Stewardship Program. Dr. Dickerson served as the American Society of Anesthesiologist’s liaison to the National Pain Care Coalition and currently as Vice-Chairman of the ASA’s Pain Medicine Committee. Dr. Dickerson teaches several classes on pain and neuroscience for the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine where he is a clinical associate professor. Dr. Dickerson is a core faculty member of the University of Chicago Center for Health Care Delivery Science and Innovation. He will become the chair of the ASA’s Pain Medicine Committee in October 2020.
Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is currently Chair of the ASA Committee on Communications, and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is an Associate Professor and serves as staff anesthesiologist in the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and in the Division of Pediatric Anesthesia at Kentucky Children’s Hospital as part of the Joint Congenital Heart Care Program. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Purdue University and his medical degree from Indiana University. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Northwestern University.
