Research Information

Ethan Rosenberg, M.D.
Assistant Professor

The Department of Anesthesiology is currently engaged in both basic science and clinical/translational research to improve patient care and train students and resident physicians to analyze and conduct studies. We are actively recruiting for a Vice-Chair of Research. In the interim, Ethan Rosenberg, MD is directing our laboratory investigations with a focus on mechanisms of pain development and treatment using rodent in vivo models.

Specific Lab Expertise includes:

• Small animal surgery
• Behavioral analysis of nociception
• Pharmacological interventions
• Protein expression/activity analysis

Current Projects include:

• Analysis of behavioral response following perineural therapies
• Peripherally mediated opioid analgesia
• Regulation of inflammation-associated proteins following nerve injury

Our department encourages students and resident physicians to rotate through our lab(s). For more information you may contact Dr. Rosenberg via email at rosenberge@uthscsa.edu

Research News:

Congratulations to Dr. Joe Reses, MD and MSII’s Joel Cavazos and David Pate for their abstract acceptance titled SCIATIC NERVE INJURY WITH PERINEURAL CATHETER FOR THE STUDY OF HYPERALGESIA to the International Association for the Study of Pain in San Francisco, November 19th-21st.