ZirongZhaoMDPhD, FACP

Pain Medicine

Staff Physician, Veterans Affairs Medical Center Washington, DC and Clinical Professor of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC

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Office
50 Irving St NW
Washington, DC 20422
Phone+1 202-745-8000

Fax+1 202-745-8284

Summary

Pain Medicine

Clinical Expertise

Interventional pain management

Education & Training

UPMC Medical EducationFellowship, Pain Medicine, 2008 - 2009
Temple University HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1998 - 2001
Shanghai Medical UniversityClass of 1985

Certifications & Licensure

MD State Medical License 2001 - 2025
VA State Medical License 2001 - 2012
DC State Medical License 2001 - 2010
PA State Medical License 1999 - 2009
WV State Medical License 2001 - 2003
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Pain Medicine

Clinical Trials

Lidocaine Patch for Neck Pain Start of enrollment: 2021 Feb 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Roles: Contact

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

35 citations
Consensus practice guidelines on interventions for cervical spine (facet) joint pain from a multispecialty international working group.
Robert W Hurley, Meredith C B Adams, Meredith Barad, Arun Bhaskar, Anuj Bhatia
Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. 2022-01-01
116 citations
Consensus practice guidelines on interventions for lumbar facet joint pain from a multispecialty, international working group.
Steven P Cohen, Arun Bhaskar, Anuj Bhatia, Asokumar Buvanendran, Tim Deer
Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. 2020-06-01
57 citations
Epidural steroid injections compared with gabapentin for lumbosacral radicular pain: multicenter randomized double blind comparative efficacy study.
Steven P. Cohen, Steven R. Hanling, Mark C. Bicket, Ronald L White, Elias Veizi
BMJ. 2015-04-16

Journal Articles

Best Practice for interventional pain procedures in the setting of an iodinated contrast media shortage: a multi-society practice advisory
Schuster NM, Ahadian F, Zhao Z, Hooten WM, Miller DC, Hagedorn J, Gulati A, Duszynski B, McCormick ZL, Nagpal A, Interventional Pain Medicine, 7/7/2022
Spinal nomenclature and traffic lights—a need to standardize. Interventional Pain Medicine
1. Shustorovich A, Zhao Z, Wallace M, Interventional Pain Medicine, 3/2022
Psoas hematoma following lumbar sympathetic block in a patient with renal and liver diseases and recent use of aggrenox
N. Rizk, Z. Zhao and M. Loomba, Open J of Anesthesiology 2014; 4: 99-103, 2014