Dr. Samer Narouze, MD, PhD

Dr. Narouze is a board-certified anesthesiologist with subspecialty board certifications in pain medicine, interventional pain management, and neurology headache medicine. Internationally recognized, he has authored or co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, abstracts and case reports; delivered more than 180 invited presentations; and led more than 60 workshops on non-narcotic pain management treatments. He has also reviewed, by invitation, more than 100 articles and edited 5 medical textbooks including Atlas of Ultrasound Guided Procedures in Interventional Pain Management, and is currently an editor or reviewer for more than 17 professional medical journals, including The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Since 2010, Dr. Narouze has been Chair of The Center for Pain Medicine at Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, where he directs a multidisciplinary team of specialists. They include four board-certified pain medicine physicians, two psychologists, a chiropractor, a physical therapist, six certified physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and a clinical pharmacist to monitor potential drug interactions. All are full time. All are onsite. And all are dedicated to a comprehensive approach to pain management in which opioids are the last resort.