Dr. Richard M. Knights

Dr. Brummett is a Professor at the University of Michigan where he serves as the Senior Associate Chair for Research. He has more than 200 publications, including articles in top journals such as JAMA, JAMA Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Annals of Surgery. He is the Co-Director of the Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (OPEN) at the University of Michigan, which aims to apply a preventative approach to the opioid epidemic in the US through appropriate prescribing after surgery, dentistry, and emergency medicine. In addition, his research interests include predictors of acute and chronic post-surgical pain and failure to derive benefit for interventions for interventions and surgeries primarily performed to treat pain. Dr. Brummett is interested in the impact of a fibromyalgia-like or centralized pain phenotype on analgesic outcomes. He is the Co-PI of multiple NIH grants studying these concepts and receives funding from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, SAMHSA, CDC, and multiple foundations. Dr. Brummett is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Fibromyalgia, Chronic Pain, Acute Pain, Shoulder Arthroscopy, and Hip Replacement. Dr. Brummett is board certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. Dr. Brummett is currently accepting new patients.

Mark C. Bicket, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Health Management & Policy at the University of Michigan, where he directs pain and opioid research. He co-directs the Overdose Prevention Engagement Network (OPEN), an initiative to prevent, treat, and reduce harms from substance use through community partnerships and stigma reduction. His research integrates clinical trials, health policy analyses, and pharmacoepidemiology.Dr. Bicket has pioneered evidence-based approaches to reduce opioid-related harms and advanced the treatment of pain. He leads two NIH R01s to improve care for persons with opioid use disorder who have surgery and leads two pragmatic clinical trials funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute including CARES for Kids, which compares commonly prescribed treatments for postoperative pain among adolescents and young adults.Previously, he directed the nationally recognized pain medicine fellowship program and quality and safety for pain at Johns Hopkins, where he led creation of their first system-wide pain management policy. Dr. Bicket votes as a member of the FDA committee on analgesics and has advised CMS, state governments, and national organizations on pain and opioid issues. His research, which includes 130 peer-reviewed articles, has appeared in JAMA, NEJM, and BMJ and has support from the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER), SAMHSA, and CDC. Dr. Bicket’s leadership has led to national recognition including the 2024 Presidential Scholar Award from the American Society of Regional Anesthesia, the White House Fellowship, and election as a Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Dr. Bicket is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Acute Pain, Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia, Spinal Fusion, and Gallbladder Removal. Dr. Bicket is board certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. Dr. Bicket is currently accepting new patients.

Srinivas Chiravuri is a Pain Medicine specialist and an Anesthesiologist practicing medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Chiravuri is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Acute Pain, Wallerian Degeneration, Pudendal Neuralgia, and Giant Axonal Neuropathy. Dr. Chiravuri is currently accepting new patients.

Douglas Anderson is a Pain Medicine specialist and an Anesthesiologist practicing medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has been practicing medicine for over 17 years. Dr. Anderson is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Acute Pain, Chronic Pain, Intestinal Cancer, and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Dr. Anderson is board certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. Dr. Anderson is currently accepting new patients.

Additional Credentials: Clinical Internship, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008-2009. Dr. Schack is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Acute Pain, Sciatica, Chronic Pain, and Fibromyalgia. Dr. Schack is board certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. Dr. Schack is currently accepting new patients.

Ronald Wasserman is the Service Chief for Pain Medicine, and the Director of the Back and Pain Center at the University of Michigan. Dr. Wasserman received his medical degree from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He then completed residency training in anesthesiology at the University of Calgary in Canada in 1993. Following this he then did a fellowship in regional anesthesia at the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. He then practiced anesthesiology in London, Ontario until 1998 when he pursued a fellowship in pain medicine at Cleveland Clinic. Upon completion of this fellowship in 1999 he joined the faculty in the department of anesthesiology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Wasserman has been with the Back and Pain Center at the University of Michigan since 1999 and subsequently became director of the program and service chief in 6/2003. During this time the Back and Pain Center has been able to successfully incorporate a multidisciplinary approach to treating a variety of pain problems by bringing in internists, a neurologist, pain psychologists, a psychiatrist, a neurosurgeon, and an orthopedic spine surgeon. Dr. Wasserman has an interest in the treatment of a wide variety of pain problems through the use of interventional techniques including back and neck pain, CRPS, post-herpetic neuralgia, ilioinguinal neuralgia, post-mastectomy pain, and post-thoracotomy pain. Dr. Wasserman is board certified in pain medicine and is on a committee with both the International Spine Intervention Society as well as the American Society of Anesthesiology. Dr. Wasserman's research interests include identifying outcome predictors in patients with chronic pain. Dr. Wasserman is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia, Sciatica, and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Dr. Wasserman is board certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. Dr. Wasserman is currently accepting new patients.