Ramana (Ramo) Naidu MD is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco. He serves as one of the lead faculty at the UCSF Pain Management Center for the care of patients with chronic painful conditions. He completed his fellowship in Pain Management at UCSF. He participates in medication management and interventional therapies for patients with chronic pain for both the outpatient and inpatient settings. Dr. Naidu is also Director of the inpatient acute/post-surgical pain service, UCSF Mount Zion Hospital that is focused on the care of post-operative patients with cancer. One of his main interests is the prevention of transition from acute to chronic pain. He is heavily involved in the regional anesthesia services for surgeries at UCSF and has been a key player in bringing ultrasound-guided techniques to regional anesthesia and interventional pain medicine at UCSF.
Dr. Naidu completed his medical school at the University of Wisconsin – Madison as a medical scholar (a 7-yr program) in the city where he grew up. He completed his internship at the University of California – Los Angeles, and his residency in anesthesiology at the University of Washington – Seattle. He was a Fulbright Scholar for Public Health research in Copenhagen, Denmark with the World Health Organization European Regional Office. His work involved the surveillance of nosocomial infections in the European Region, and the dissemination of methods for prevention. This background at the WHO has given him a “top-down” perspective on many of the issues that confront our medical system. He is a proponent of transparent and open-source materials in academics and is looking forward to being a part of Cureus.