Jeff L. Xu, M.D., FASA, founded the Regional Anesthesia Service in 2015, and has been pivotal in the education of anesthesia resident and the evolution of clinical policies at WMC/NYMC. In 2016, Dr. Xu initiated the Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship Program and served as the program director. Before joining WMC/NYMC, he was the director of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Services at Riverside Regional Medical Center (RRMC), VA, through his development of the Acute Pain Service and his time as chairman of Multidisciplinary Acute Pain Managing Committee, Dr. Xu has dramatically increased the HCAHPS pain management satisfaction score from ~50% to 72% at RRMC.

Dr. Xu is also a committee member in the Educational Track Subcommittee of Regional Anesthesia for American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA), Continue Medical Education Committee for American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA), Pain Management Committee for the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists (NYSSA), as well as the editor and reviewer for PubMed Indexed Journals. He is the steer committee member for the international project of standardizing nomenclature in regional anesthesia. Dr. Xu is an active member of the research community with many publications in the field of regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine. His clinical research Interests are regional anesthesia and perioperative pain management.

Areas of Expertise

• General anesthesia
• Regional anesthesia
• Perioperative pain management

Education

• M.D., Dalian Medical University
• Residency, Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Internship, General Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University

Publications

• Pisapia JM, Doherty TM, Grosinger L, et. al. "Safety and Preliminary Efficacy of Cervical Paraspinal Interfascial Plane Block for Postoperative Pain after Pediatric Chiari Decompression." Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 12(14), (2024) . doi: 10.3390/healthcare12141426
• Siddiqui A, Sekhri N, Salik I, et. al. "Peripheral Nerve Stimulation for Treating Acute Pain Following Traumatic Fracture: A Case Report of Rapid-Onset Analgesia Without Motor Blockade." Cureus, 16(6), (2024) e62142. doi: 10.7759/cureus.62142
• Doherty TM, Zhang A, Spivak A, et. al. "Feasibility and Analgesic Efficacy of Thoracolumbar Dorsal Ramus Nerve Block Using Multiorifice Pain Catheters for Scoliosis Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study." International journal of spine surgery, 18(3), (2024) 329-335. doi: 10.14444/8601
• Xu JL, Pisapia J, Shabsigh M, et. al. "Corrigendum to "Ultrasound-Guided Cervical Cervicis Plane Block for Postoperative Pain Control in Cervical Spine Surgery: A Technical Note" [World Neurosurgery 171 (2023) 19903]." World neurosurgery, 185(), (2024) 439. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2024.03.065
• Koltenyuk V, Mrad I, Choe I, et. al. "Multimodal Acute Pain Management in the Parturient with Opioid Use Disorder: A Review." Journal of pain research, 17(), (2024) 797-813. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S434010
• El-Boghdadly K, Albrecht E, Wolmarans M, et. al. "Standardizing nomenclature in regional anesthesia: an ASRA-ESRA Delphi consensus study of upper and lower limb nerve blocks." Regional anesthesia and pain medicine, 49(11), (2024) 782-792. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2023-104884
• Xu JL, Shabsigh M. "Ultrasound-Guided Cervical Cervicis Plane Block for Postoperative Pain Control in Cervical Spine Surgery: A Technical Note." World neurosurgery, 171(), (2023) 5-7. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2022.12.044

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Recent Presentations

National:

• “Opioid-Free Analgesia for Spine Surgery: Is the Mission Impossible?” Grand rounds speaker, Taxes VA Medical Center, Huston, Taxes. 6/28/2023
• “Novel Regional Anesthesia techniques in Pain Management for Spine Surgery” Panel speaker: The American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Conference 2022, New Orleans, LA, 10/24/2022
• “Tailoring Regional Anesthesia Teaching” Session speaker: Educating the Educator Session, The 47th ASRA annual conference, Las Vegas, NV, 4/1/2022
• “Lumbar Paraspinal Interfascial Plane (PIP) Blocks for Postoperative Pain Control on Laminectomy” Session speaker: Ask the Experts Interactive Session, The 46th ASRA annual conference, Orlando, FL. 5/9/2021
• “Nerve Blocks for Spine Surgery” Grand rounds speaker, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA. 1/17/2020
• "Spine Surgery in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Getting Patients Home Happy" Session speaker: North American Spine Society (NASS) 2020 Annual Conference, 10/6-10/8, 2020, Virtual Experience.
• "Regional anesthesia for spine surgery" Faculty/Speaker: Multimodal Anesthesia and Analgesia for Spine Surgery. Educational Webinars, ASRA, 10/20/2020.

International:

• “Exploring the transversus abdominis plane block in cesarean sections: Toxicity risk to neonates via breast milk” Keynote speaker, 37th Global Experts Meeting on Neonatal Nursing and Maternal Healthcare. August 24-25, 2023, Paris, France
• “Peripheral Nerve Block for Spine Surgery” Session speaker, 2020 Congress of Chinese Association of Anesthesiologist Annual Conference (Virtual). 8/9-8/10, 2020, Shanghai, China
• “How to Standardize the Care for Regional Anesthesiology” Session speaker, 2019 Congress of Chinese Association of Anesthesiologist Annual Conference. 4/12-4/14, 2019, Qingdao, China
• “Paraneuraxial nerve blocks: Can they replace neuraxial nerve blocks?” Keynote speaker, 7th International Conference of Pain Research and Management 10/2018, Zurich, Switzerland

Local/Regional:

• “Regional Anesthesia Techniques for Postoperative Pain Management in Spine Surgery”. Grand rounds speaker, New York-Presbyterian Westchester, 5/10/2023
• “The Role of Regional Anesthesia in Spine Surgery” Grand rounds speaker, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, 2/10/2023
• “Spine Surgery in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Getting Patients Home Happy” PBLD speaker, PGA 76, New York, NY, 12/2022
• “Acute Pain in the Inpatient Setting” Panel speaker, New York State Pain Society 2021 Annual Conference, Hyde Park, NY, 10/30/2021
• “The Role of Regional Anesthesia in Spine Surgery” Grand rounds speaker, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, 2/10/2021
• “Nerve Blocks for Spine Surgery?” Grand rounds speaker, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, 9/18/2019
• “Can I Block Any Part of Your Body? -New Truncal Nerve Blocks” Grand rounds speaker, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, 9/6/2018
• “A Novel Approach to Post-Operative Pain Control after Scoliosis Surgery” Grand rounds speaker, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, 1/2/2018
• “Ultrasound for Neuraxial Anesthesia: A new approach to a growing problem” Grand rounds speaker, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, 3/12/2017
• “Regional Anesthesia: What is it? And what about it?” Grand rounds speaker, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, 6/11/2016
• “Is the Regional Anesthesia Just Regional?” Grand rounds speaker, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, 11/06/2015
• “Anticoagulation and Reversal: Do you know Kcentra?” Grand rounds speaker, Riverside Regional Medical Center, 3/10/2015
• “The Role of Multidisciplinary Acute Pain Service” Grand rounds speaker, Riverside Regional Medical Center, 11/18/2014
• “Paravertebral Nerve Block: How do I do it?” Grand rounds speaker, Riverside Regional Medical Center, 2/15/2013

Professional Service

• Executive Board Member, Chinese American Association of Anesthesiology 
• Member-At-Large, CME Committee, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 
• Board Director, Association of Chinese American Physicians 
• Member, Educational Track Subcommittee on Regional Anesthesia Acute Pain, American Society of Anesthesiology 
• Member, Pain Management Committee, NYS Society of Anesthesiologists
• Member, Committee on Government and Legal Affairs, NYS Society of Anesthesiologists 
• Member, Committee on Continuing Medical Education and NYS Society of Anesthesiologists
• Member, Sub-Committee on Workshops, NYS Society of Anesthesiologists
• Member, Regional Anesthesia Fellowship Directors Group, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Memberships and Affiliations

• New York State Pain Society
• Society of Academic Associations of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
• American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
• New York State Society of Anesthesiologists
• American Society of Anesthesiologists