Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine


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  • Theresa Mallick-Searle, MS, PMGT-BC, ANP-BC, FAANP

    Theresa Mallick-Searle, MS, PMGT-BC, ANP-BC, FAANP

    Casual - Non-Exempt, Anesthesia - Adult Pain Medicine

    BioTheresa is an Adult Nurse Practitioner with over 29 years’ experience at Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, California. She received her graduate degree from University of California, San Francisco.

    Theresa’s current clinical practice within the Division of Pain Medicine, focuses primarily on evaluation and treatment of individuals suffering from acute and chronic pain conditions in both the hospital and outpatient settings.

    As part of her commitment to education and professional development, she lectures extensively on topics surrounding pain management both locally and regionally. She has authored and co-authored numerous articles, abstracts, and book chapters on topics pertaining to pain assessment and management. Theresa is a clinical preceptor for NP and PA students in the greater Bay Area; she also mentors and instructs the fellows and residents on the Stanford Pain Service.

    Theresa is actively involved in multiple professional organizations including: The American Association of Nurse Practitioners, California Association of Nurse Practitioners, American Society of Pain Management Nursing and American Academy of Pain Medicine. As part of her commitment to safety and ethical treatment of patients with pain; Theresa has provided services as an independent expert witness on issues related to pain management and treatment.

  • Amy Li Matecki

    Amy Li Matecki

    Adjunct Clinical Instructor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

    BioDr. Amy (Ying Li) Matecki has been licensed to practice medicine in California since 2002 and completed her Internal Medicine Residency as Chief Resident at Highland Hospital, Alameda Health System, a UCSF affiliate, in 2004. She received her degree in Acupuncture and Chinese medicine from ACCHS in 2009. She was a Faculty Attending Physician at Department of Medicine Residency at Highland Hospital from 2004 to 2019 and Chief of the Integrative Medicine Division from 2014 to 2019. She and her colleagues from allopathic medicine and Chinese Medicine created hospital privilege policy for licensed acupuncturists in 2011 and designed policies, procedures and training methods for acupuncturists to join the medical staff to provide inpatient acupuncture services at Highland Hospital. She helped to create the first Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Residency from 2016 to 2019 at Alameda Health System Highland Hospital. Graduates from this residency program are able to work in allopathic academic teaching hospitals’ inpatient care and outpatient medical centers.

    In addition to serving in the public hospital, Dr. Matecki joined Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (ABSMC) Comprehensive Cancer Center in 2004 where she started a community hospital-based acupuncture program to bridge Eastern and Western Medicine. She has been the Medical Director of Integrative Medicine at ABSMC since 2008. Integrating Chinese Medicine into conventional oncology practice, Dr. Matecki and her team not only provide clinical care but also present and publish their findings on safety from using acupuncture and integrative medicine to reduce the pain, nausea and anxiety that frequently accompanies conventional cancer treatments. In many case level observations, Dr. Matecki and her team note that the integration of Chinese Medicine may enhance cancer patients' quality of life.

    Dr. Matecki was the principal investigator (PI) for acupuncture research for chronic post-chemotherapy fatigue in collaboration with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She presented her study on the safety of acupuncture for patients with lymphedema at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Breast Cancer Symposium in October 2009. She was co-investigator in a public hospital that studied acupuncture feasibility for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients which was published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (JACM) in 2017. She is the current PI for a Chinese herbal medicine research project at ABSMC. Following her team’s previous success at Highland hospital, she pioneered the first Sutter Bay Hospital Integrative Medicine TCM Residency training program at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in 2023. https://vitals.sutterhealth.org/east-meets-west-health-system-launches-its-first-traditional-chinese-medicine-clinical-training-program/

    Dr. Matecki is an Adjunct Clinical Faculty at Stanford Health Care, a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Society of Integrative Oncology (SIO); Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP); Co-founder of International Center for Integrative Medicine (ICIM); Board member of Society of Chinese American Physician Entrepreneurs (SCAPE); House delegate for California Medical Association (CMA). Matecki is currently serving on the State California Acupuncture Board, first appointed by Governor Jerry Brown in 2016, reappointed by Brown in 2017 and Governor Gavin Newsom in 2021. She served as the California Acupuncture Board President from 2017-2021 and the current board member. https://www.acupuncture.ca.gov/about_us/member_profiles.shtml#matecki . She continues to work on policy and safety guidelines for hospital-based Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine practice with a multidisciplinary team of physicians, nursing staff, acupuncturists and hospital administrators.

  • Garret K. Morris, MD

    Garret K. Morris, MD

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

    BioDr. Morris is a board-certified, fellowship-trained anesthesiologist with a clinical focus on pain medicine. He is also a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Pain Medicine of the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Morris has expertise in chronic pain management, inpatient pain management, spine care, and functional restoration.

    He treats a wide range of pain conditions including musculoskeletal, neuropathic, visceral and mixed. With each patient in his care, Dr. Morris’ objective is to alleviate suffering using the treatment approach that is most likely to maximize effectiveness and minimize risk. The focus is on using the least invasive interventions possible to improve each individual’s function and quality of life.

    To help achieve these goals, Dr. Morris takes a holistic approach encompassing six domains of pain management: pharmacological, interventional, behavioral/psychological, physical rehabilitative, alternative and complementary therapies, and self-management. Often this approach requires a multidisciplinary team of diverse professionals with Dr. Morris overseeing care planning, implementation, and follow-up. This is especially helpful for challenging cases, where a collaborative team-based approach affords greater potential for superior outcomes.

    Dr. Morris communicates closely with referring physicians to devise holistic pain management that fits holistically into each patient’s comprehensive care plan.

    Dr. Morris has authored articles and reviews in publications including Anesthesiology, Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, American Society for Artificial Organs Journal, Cancer Detection and Prevention, and the Journal of Orthopedics & Sports Physical Therapy. He also has contributed the chapter “Occipital Nerve Block” in the textbook Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical, Interventional, and Behavioral Approaches published by the American Academy of Pain Medicine. In addition, Dr. Morris has contributed online content on postoperative pain relief to the electronic forum, The Stanford Anesthesia Informatics and Media Lab (AIM).

    He has made presentations at conferences including the American Society of Anesthesiology Annual Meeting and the Annual Rochester (New York) Regional Anesthesia Symposium. He also has delivered invited lectures, most recently on interventional techniques for the treatment of spinal disorders as part of the Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield Project.

    Dr. Morris’ honors for clinical practice include awards from Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. He has received recognition for his scholarship from the Dannemiller Memorial Education Foundation and Midwest Anesthesia Resident’s.

  • Gabriella Muwanga

    Gabriella Muwanga

    Temp - Non-Exempt, Anesthesia - Adult Pain Medicine

    BioGabriella Muwanga is a Neurosciences graduate student in the Tawfik and Airan labs at Stanford. She is interested in understanding acute and chronic pain mechanisms and developing therapies for acute and chronic pain through basic and translational research. Gabriella holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. She is passionate about teaching, mentorship, science communication, and fostering diversity in science. Outside the lab, she enjoys writing, singing, drawing, Bible Study, and fellowship.

  • Jordan L. Newmark, MD, QME

    Jordan L. Newmark, MD, QME

    Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical Interests:
    Chronic & perioperative pain, interdisciplinary & procedural pain treatment, trauma anesthesia, spine surgery anesthesia, CRPS, nerve injury

    Academic Interests:
    - Graduate & undergraduate medical education, medical simulation & immersive learning, performance assessment & evaluation, adult learning theory, clinician selection processes, patient safety & quality of care, health equity

  • Einar Ottestad

    Einar Ottestad

    Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI have a strong interest in ultrasound for chronic pain management for diagnostics as well as therapeutics. I also have strong interest in acute pain in the hospital setting, including post-operative as well as cancer pain.

  • Heather Poupore-King

    Heather Poupore-King

    Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

    Current Research and Scholarly Interests11/01/17 – 10/30/2022
    Role: Co-Investigator (0.10 FTE) and Director of Treatments for the Bay Area (Stanford Pain and Primary Care clinics)
    PCORI (Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute). Title: “Comparative Effectiveness of Pain Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Chronic Pain Self-Management Within the Context of Opioid Reduction.” Total: $8.8M PI: Beth Darnall

    2017- present
    Dr. King is also collaborating with Fiona Barwick, PhD, at Stanford’s Sleep Medicine Center, to develop an integrated treatment protocol for improving sleep and chronic pain. With the protocol now complete, Dr. Barwick and Dr. King plan to run the six-session group throughout 2019, collecting pre-treatment, post-treatment and follow-up data to analyze outcomes.

    2015-present
    Role: Lead Therapist, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy manualized intervention
    National Institutes of Health P01 AT006651 National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health Title: Stanford Center for Back Pain
    PI: Sean Mackey, MD, PhD

    2015 -present
    Lead Therapist, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy manualized intervention
    National Institutes of Health R01AT008561 National Center for Complementary and
    Integrative Health Title: Single Session Pain Catastrophizing Treatment: Comparative
    Efficacy & Mechanisms Multi-PI: Darnall BD & Mackey SC