Nabil Elkassabany
MD, MSCE MBA Speaker
Is the John C Rowlingson Professor of Anesthesiology and the vice chair of clinical operations in the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia (UVA). He is also the Medical Director of the main operating rooms at UVA. Dr. Elkassabany did his undergraduate and medical education in Alexandria University. He was then appointed as a faculty in the department of Anesthesiology, Menoufia University, Egypt. He completed his anesthesia residency training at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio and his regional anesthesia subspecialty training at the University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida. He earned a master degree in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics in December 2012 from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and had his MBA in December 2021 from the Fox School of Business, Temple University in Philadelphia. Dr Elkassabany was the division chief of regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 2010-2022. His research interest focuses on patients’ outcomes after orthopedic surgery, specifically patient who receives regional anesthesia in different clinical settings. He is especially interested improving patient outcomes after major joint arthroplasty and defining the value added by regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine to patients’ perioperative experience. Nabil was a member of the Board of Directors for the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA) from 2018-2022. He also chairs educational track subcommittee on regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine at the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA).