Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care MedicineÂ
Pennsylvania State University
United States of America
Dr. Ashburn is professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, and a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Director of the Penn Pain Medicine Center and Co-Director of the Palliative Care Program at the Abramson Cancer Center. The focus of Dr. Ashburn's clinical practice is pain medicine and palliative care, including the medical management of patients with complex pain problems as well as the use of interventional therapy for the treatment of pain
the conduct of clinical trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of new methods for the treatment of acute and chronic pain.