Overview
Dr. Cucchiaro is the director of Pain Services in the Department of Anesthesia at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. He joined the hospital staff in 2018. Dr. Cucchiaro’s expertise includes pediatric anesthesia, pain management and palliative care. His clinical research interests include the safety of short and long term use of opioids, addiction prevention and use of complementary intervention to assist children with acute and chronic pain. After earning his medical degree from the University of Milan in Milan, Italy, Dr. Cucchiaro completed an internship at Wilson Memorial Regional Medical Center in Johnson City, New York. Dr. Cucchiaro completed a residency in general surgery at the University of Milan and an anesthesia residency at Health Science Center SUNY in Syracuse, New York. He then completed a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Cucchiaro also holds a masters in international public policy and management from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He came to Johns Hopkins All Children’s from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles where he was the director of pain and palliative care services for 10 years.
Dr. Cucchiaro is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Acute Pain. His top areas of expertise are Infantile Pyloric Stenosis, Chronic Pain, Acute Pain, and Spinal Fusion.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 22 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 4 articles in the study of Acute Pain.
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Locations
601 5th Street South, Suite 360, Suite 360, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
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Areas of Expertise
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- Acute PainDr. Cucchiaro isExperienced. Learn about Acute Pain.
- Chronic PainDr. Cucchiaro isExperienced. Learn about Chronic Pain.
- Infantile Pyloric StenosisDr. Cucchiaro isExperienced. Learn about Infantile Pyloric Stenosis.
- Spinal FusionDr. Cucchiaro isExperienced. Learn about Spinal Fusion.