Mark Christopher Bicket

Assistant Professor
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine - Pain Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medicine
United States of America

Biography

Dr. Mark C. Bicket is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Boarded in anesthesiology and chronic pain medicine, Dr. Bicket focuses his clinical expertise and research in interventional pain management. His research goal is to improve treatment options for patients with chronic and persisting pain. Dr. Bicket obtained his medical degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of medicine, completed an anesthesiology residency at Johns Hopkins, and performed a pain management fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He currently serves as the Director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Medicine Fellowship Program and Director of the Divisional Safety and Quality Assurance Program. His research and work has been published in BMJ, Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology Clinics, Regional Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, and The Spine Journal, among others. His research has also been the subject of national news media including the New York Times, NBC News, and other international venues. He also attends in the operating rooms, with an emphasis on care under the enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) and obstetrical anesthesiology services. He actively serves on national committees with the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and the American Pain Society (APS).

Research Intrest

Anesthesiology, Back Pain, Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease, Cervical Degenerative Disc Herniation, Cervical Disc Herniation, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Degenerative Disc Disease, Disc Pain, Epidural Injections, Herniated Disc, Interventional Pain Management, Joint Injection: Hip, Joint Injections, Knee Arthritis, Lumbar Degenerative Disease, Lumbar Disc Herniation, Lumbar Radiculopathy, Neck Pain, Pain Management, Postherpetic Neuralgia, Radiofrequency Ablation for Pain Control, Sciatica, Spinal Pain, Thoracic Disc Herniation, Ultrasound

List of Publications
Bicket MC, Gupta A, Brown CH 4th, Cohen SP. Epidural injections for spinal pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis evaluating the "control" injections in randomized controlled trials. Anesthesiology. 2013 Oct;119(4):907-31.
Bicket MC, Horowitz JM, Benzon HT, Cohen SP. Epidural injections in prevention of surgery for spinal pain: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Spine J. 2015 Feb 1;15(2):348-62.
Bicket MC, Hurley RW, Moon JY, Brummett CM, Hanling S, Huntoon MA, van Zundert J, Cohen SP. The Development and Validation of a Quality Assessment and Rating of Technique for Injections of the Spine (AQUARIUS). Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2016 Jan-Feb;41(1):80-5.