Jeff Xu, M.D., F.A.S.A., is a board-certified anesthesiologist and chief of the Division of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management, which he established at Westchester Medical Center (WMC) in 2015. Dr. Xu has been pivotal in the education of anesthesia residents and the evolution of clinical policies at WMC. In 2016, he founded the Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship Program and served as the program director until 2024.

Before he joined WMC, he was the director of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Services at Riverside Regional Medical Center (RRMC), VA. Through his development of the Acute Pain Service and his time as chairman of the Multidisciplinary Acute Pain Managing Committee, Dr. Xu dramatically increased the HCAHPS pain management satisfaction score from ~50% to 72% at RRMC.

Dr. Xu also has many roles outside of the WMC community, including as a committee member on the Educational Track Subcommittee of Regional Anesthesia for the American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA); Practice Management and CME Committee for the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA), and Pain Management Committee for the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists (NYSSA), as well as serving as vice chair of the Persistent Perioperative Pain Special Interests Group in ASRA. He was a Steering Committee member on the International Standardizing Nomenclature for Regional Anesthesia project. He also serves as the editor and reviewer for PubMed-indexed journals and has been a faculty speaker at ASA, ASRA and PGA national and international meetings and annual conferences.

Dr. Xu is an active member of the research community with many publications in the field of regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine. His clinical research Interests are regional anesthesia and perioperative pain management.

Education

• M.D., Dalian Medical University
• Residency, Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Internship, General Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University

Areas of Expertise

• General Anesthesia
• Regional Anesthesia
• Perioperative Pain Management

Publications

• Pisapia JM, Doherty TM, Grosinger L, et. al. "Safety and Preliminary Efficacy of Cervical Paraspinal Interfascial Plane Block for Postoperative Pain after Pediatric Chiari Decompression." Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 12(14), (2024) . doi: 10.3390/healthcare12141426
• Siddiqui A, Sekhri N, Salik I, et. al. "Peripheral Nerve Stimulation for Treating Acute Pain Following Traumatic Fracture: A Case Report of Rapid-Onset Analgesia Without Motor Blockade." Cureus, 16(6), (2024) e62142. doi: 10.7759/cureus.62142
• Doherty TM, Zhang A, Spivak A, et. al. "Feasibility and Analgesic Efficacy of Thoracolumbar Dorsal Ramus Nerve Block Using Multiorifice Pain Catheters for Scoliosis Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study." International journal of spine surgery, 18(3), (2024) 329-335. doi: 10.14444/8601
• Xu JL, Pisapia J, Shabsigh M, et. al. "Corrigendum to "Ultrasound-Guided Cervical Cervicis Plane Block for Postoperative Pain Control in Cervical Spine Surgery: A Technical Note" [World Neurosurgery 171 (2023) 19903]." World neurosurgery, 185(), (2024) 439. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2024.03.065
• Koltenyuk V, Mrad I, Choe I, et. al. "Multimodal Acute Pain Management in the Parturient with Opioid Use Disorder: A Review." Journal of pain research, 17(), (2024) 797-813. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S434010
• El-Boghdadly K, Albrecht E, Wolmarans M, et. al. "Standardizing nomenclature in regional anesthesia: an ASRA-ESRA Delphi consensus study of upper and lower limb nerve blocks." Regional anesthesia and pain medicine, 49(11), (2024) 782-792. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2023-104884
• Xu JL, Shabsigh M. "Ultrasound-Guided Cervical Cervicis Plane Block for Postoperative Pain Control in Cervical Spine Surgery: A Technical Note." World neurosurgery, 171(), (2023) 5-7. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2022.12.044

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Professional Service

• Executive Board Member, Chinese American Association of Anesthesiology
• Member-At-Large, CME Committee, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
• Member, Educational Track Subcommittee on Regional Anesthesia Acute Pain, American Society of Anesthesiology
• Member, Pain Management Committee, NYS Society of Anesthesiologists
• Member, Committee on Government and Legal Affairs, NYS Society of Anesthesiologists
• Member, Committee on Continuing Medical Education and NYS Society of Anesthesiologists
• Member, Sub-Committee on Workshops, NYS Society of Anesthesiologists

Memberships and Affiliations

• New York State Pain Society
• American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
• New York State Society of Anesthesiologists
• American Society of Anesthesiologists