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Pritam Kumar Panda
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Panda’s current research at Stanford University School of Medicine centers on the innovative design of anesthetics optimized for battlefield application. His work integrates advanced methodologies such as AI-driven protein design, molecular dynamics simulations, and computational drug design to identify and model potential anesthetic compounds with precision and efficacy.
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Richard Perez, MD
Clinical Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain MedicineBioDr. Richard Perez is a board-certified, fellowship-trained pain management specialist with Stanford Health Care. He is also a clinical scholar in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, Division of Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Perez cares for people living with complex chronic pain, nerve-related pain, and musculoskeletal pain conditions. He specializes in nonsurgical therapies, such as nerve blocks, to relieve pain. He takes a highly personalized and compassionate approach to pain medicine, informed by a deep understanding of the biology of pain.
As an active physician-researcher, Dr. Perez studies how changes in cells contribute to chronic pain and immune-related disease. He uses advanced genetic technologies to analyze patterns across individual immune and nervous system cells. His work aims to understand what causes chronic pain, supporting the development of more targeted and effective therapies.
Dr. Perez has published his findings in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Science, Science Translational Medicine, Nature Communications, and British Journal of Anaesthesia. He has also presented to peers at meetings of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, American Society of Anesthesiologists, and International Anesthesia Research Society.
Dr. Perez is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the International Anesthesia Research Society. -
Ashley Phoenix
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioDr. Ashley Phoenix earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences from the College of Charleston, where her passion for neuroscience first took root through undergraduate research on drug seeking behavior at the Medical University of South Carolina. She went on to complete an M.S. in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, strengthening her scientific foundation before earning her M.D. at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Her research career has spanned diverse yet interconnected realms of neuroscience — from investigating post-stroke cognitive decline at MUSC, to exploring the neurodevelopmental basis of disorders such as Rett syndrome at the NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, to contributing to neurosurgery research at Wake Forest with a focus on cognition and perioperative outcomes.
Now, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Neuroanesthesia Laboratory of Dr. Miles Berger at Stanford, Dr. Phoenix is uniting her lifelong fascination with the brain and cognitive decline, and her future clinical practice in anesthesiology. Her current work focuses on elucidating the mechanisms behind — and developing early detection strategies for — postoperative delirium in the elderly surgical population.
Through this fellowship, Dr. Phoenix is building the foundation for her career as a physician-scientist, committed to advancing patient care while pursuing research that safeguards cognitive health in the perioperative setting.
