Michael Stanton-Hicks, M.D., - Vice Chairman Division of Anesthesiology, Pain Management and Research at The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. His clinical interests are pain, reflex sympathetic dystrophy and regional anesthesia. Dr. Stanton-Hicks is board-certified in both pain medicine and anesthesiology.
Frequent lecturer at national and international meetings, author of more than 100 articles, book chapters, and textbooks. Active member, committee chairman, and Past President for numerous national and international professional societies including the American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians, American Academy of Pain Medicine, the European Society of Regional Anesthesia, and the International Association for the Study of Pain (American Pain Society), American Society of Regional Anesthesia, the American Academy of Medical Infrared Imaging, and the American Neuromodulation Society. Executive editor of Pain Practice and serves on the editorial boards for Neuromodulation and Pain Digest. He also is a reviewer for Current Review of Pain.
Principal investigator for numerous funded research projects, with primary areas of research are the movement disorder of complex regional pain syndrome (also known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy), pharmacologic aspects of pain management and the use of neurostimulation in pain medicine. In 1998, received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Regional Anesthesia. Named Scientist of the Year by the American Hershel Society, and received the William Hobbins M.D. Research Award from the American Academy of Medical Infrared Imaging for his contributions to the practice of pain medicine.
Received his medical degree from University of Adelaide Faculty of Medicine in Australia, completed his internship at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide. Residencies at Repatriation General Hospital in Adelaide, Lasarett in Koping, Sweden, and Hammersmith Hospital in London. In addition, he completed a fellowship in anesthesia at University of Washington in Seattle.