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Michael Bottros, MD

Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology (Clinician Educator)

Medical Director of Pain Service and Clinical Coordinator for Pain Service-Keck

Director of Pain Medicine Fellowship

Division Chief of Pain Medicine

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Overview

Michael Bottros, MD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and the Clinical Operations and Medical Director of Pain Services at Keck School of Medicine of USC and LAC+USC. He is board certified in the field of Anesthesiology and sub-specialty of Pain Medicine.

Dr. Bottros is a nationally recognized leader in the field of acute and chronic pain management. As an acclaimed leader, he founded the Acute Pain Service in 2013 at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis which rapidly became an essential component of perioperative care for thousands of patients annually. Dr. Bottros’ administrative leadership has extended well beyond the Acute Pain Service to broadly impact the delivery of pain management across the Washington University Medical Center, and he became Associate Chief of the Washington University Pain Management Division in 2017. For his outstanding work in education, Dr. Bottros received several awards including the Department of Anesthesiology Teacher of the Year Award and Department of Surgery “Friend of the Surgery Resident Award”. He has also published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers in the fields of Pain Medicine and Anesthesiology through highly-ranked journal publications and textbook contributions. In addition, he has been invited to speak at over 100 local, national, and international conferences.

His clinical interests include, but are not limited to, treating occipital neuralgia, cervicogenic headache, neck pain, low back pain, failed back surgery syndrome, neuropathy, complex regional pain syndrome, and chronic post-surgery pain. His advanced skill set includes the use of ultrasound, radiofrequency ablation, spinal cord stimulation, and vertebral augmentation in treating pain.

He is dedicated to using the full scope of multimodal, interdisciplinary pain management to provide personalized, effective care.

Education and Training

  • Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO — BA — 05/2002 — Classics, Biology
  • Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO — MD — 05/2006 — Medicine
  • Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital Consortium, St. Louis, MO — 06/2010 — Anesthesiology
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD — 08/2011 — Pain Medicine

Publications

  • Epidurals in Pancreatic Resection Outcomes (E-PRO) study: protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2018 01 26; 8(1):e018787.. View in PubMed
  • Associations between clinical diagnostic criteria and pretreatment patient-reported outcomes measures in a prospective observational cohort of patients with neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome. J Vasc Surg. 2017 08; 66(2):533-544.e2.. View in PubMed
  • Exercise-Enhanced, Ultrasound-Guided Anterior Scalene Muscle/Pectoralis Minor Muscle Blocks Can Facilitate the Diagnosis of Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome in the High-Performance Overhead Athlete. Am J Sports Med. 2017 01; 45(1):189-194.. View in PubMed
  • Current perspectives on intrathecal drug delivery. J Pain Res. 2014; 7:615-26.. View in PubMed
  • The effect of nitrous oxide anesthesia on early postoperative opioid consumption and pain. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2014 Jan-Feb; 39(1):31-6.. View in PubMed
  • Preventing Chronic Pain following Acute Pain: Risk Factors, Preventive Strategies, and their Efficacy. Eur J Pain Suppl. 2011 Nov 11; 5(2):365-372.. View in PubMed
  • Prevention of intraoperative awareness in a high-risk surgical population. N Engl J Med. 2011 Aug 18; 365(7):591-600.. View in PubMed
  • Estimation of the bispectral index by anesthesiologists: an inverse turing test. Anesthesiology. 2011 May; 114(5):1093-101.. View in PubMed
  • Urine drug testing in chronic pain. Pain Physician. 2011 Mar-Apr; 14(2):123-43.. View in PubMed
  • Bispectral index monitoring, duration of bispectral index below 45, patient risk factors, and intermediate-term mortality after noncardiac surgery in the B-Unaware Trial. Anesthesiology. 2011 Mar; 114(3):545-56.. View in PubMed

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