BluePrint Magazine

“Pain is a biological, psychological and social beast. There is no way to separate those components because your experience of pain is very personal and variable,” says Dr. Padma Gulur. Because of that complexity, she and her teams work to approach pain management from a population health perspective.

Our field is one that a lot of people don’t have exposure to early on, so you often find people who go into anesthesiology had a family member in the field,” she says. “I am not one of those people—I’m the first physician in my family.”

Providing state-of-the-art methodology for clinical, basic science and translational research empowers Duke Anesthesiology to explore revolutionary clinical inquiries by using innovative investigation methods. Through significant research in neuroscience, molecular biology, molecular and human pharmacology endeavors, our team is making crucial advancements for patients worldwide.

FOR MOST OF US, 2020 has been a year of change like none other. The COVID pandemic challenged us in ways we could never have imagined but the reality is that we are likely to see more change in the next couple of years than in the past decade.