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  • Abdullah Qatu, MD

    Abdullah Qatu, MD

    Clinical Instructor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

    BioDr. Qatu is a board-certified, fellowship-trained pain management specialist at the Stanford Health Care Pain Management Center. He is also a clinical instructor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Division of Pain Medicine, at Stanford University School of Medicine.

    He specializes in the diagnosis and management of many different types of pain, including nerve pain, joint pain, cancer pain, low back and neck pain. Dr. Qatu obtained his medical degree from the New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine. He continued on at NYU to complete his residency in anesthesiology after completing an internship in general surgery. He subsequently completed his pain medicine fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine.

    Dr. Qatu believes in utilizing a multimodal approach for pain management. This includes interventional, pharmacological, rehabilitative and psychological strategies. He is well-trained in a wide variety of interventional modalities that include injections, epidurals, nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablations, peripheral nerve stimulation, spinal cord/dorsal root ganglion stimulation and minimally invasive decompression. His research focuses on the clinical use of neuromodulation for various types of pain. In addition, he has investigated whether certain demographic and socioeconomic variables, as well as psychiatric illness, affect the outcomes of various orthopaedic traumas and surgeries. Dr. Qatu has presented his research at conferences throughout the U.S. and in Canada.

  • Xiang Qian

    Xiang Qian

    Stanford Medicine Endowed Director
    Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
    Clinical Professor (By courtesy), Neurosurgery

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical Interests
    -Pain Medicine:
    Facial pain
    Migraine and headache
    Trigeminal Neuralgia and Glossopharyngeal neuralgia
    Cancer Pain
    Spine Disease
    Neuropathic pain
    Interventional Surgery
    CT guided Procedure
    Opioid Management

    -Facial Nerve neuralgia and neuropathy
    Hemifacial Spasm
    CT guided awake RFA of facial nerve

    Research Interests:
    -Medical device development
    -AI based headache diagnosis and management
    -CT guided intervention
    -Intra-nasal endoscopy guided procedure
    -Optogenetics
    -Mechanisms of neuropathic pain
    -Ion channel and diseases
    -Neurotoxicity of anesthetics