Jeff Xu, M.D., F.A.S.A., is a board-certified anesthesiologist and chief of the Division of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management, which he established at Westchester Medical Center (WMC) in 2015. Dr. Xu has been pivotal in the education of anesthesia residents and the evolution of clinical policies at WMC. In 2016, he founded the Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship Program and served as the program director until 2024.

Before he joined WMC, he was the director of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Services at Riverside Regional Medical Center (RRMC), VA. Through his development of the Acute Pain Service and his time as chairman of the Multidisciplinary Acute Pain Managing Committee, Dr. Xu dramatically increased the HCAHPS pain management satisfaction score from ~50% to 72% at RRMC.

Dr. Xu also has many roles outside of the WMC community, including as a committee member on the Educational Track Subcommittee of Regional Anesthesia for the American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA); Practice Management and CME Committee for the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA), and Pain Management Committee for the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists (NYSSA), as well as serving as vice chair of the Persistent Perioperative Pain Special Interests Group in ASRA. He was a Steering Committee member on the International Standardizing Nomenclature for Regional Anesthesia project. He also serves as the editor and reviewer for PubMed-indexed journals and has been a faculty speaker at ASA, ASRA and PGA national and international meetings and annual conferences.

Dr. Xu is an active member of the research community with many publications in the field of regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine. His clinical research Interests are regional anesthesia and perioperative pain management.

Education

• M.D., Dalian Medical University
• Residency, Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
• Internship, General Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University

Areas of Expertise

• General Anesthesia
• Regional Anesthesia
• Perioperative Pain Management

Publications

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Recent Presentations

National:

“Opioid-Free Analgesia for Spine Surgery: Is the Mission Impossible?” Grand rounds speaker, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester Medical Center. 1/18/2024

“Opioid-Free Analgesia for Spine Surgery: Is the Mission Impossible?” Grand rounds speaker, Taxes VA Medical Center, Huston, Taxes. 6/28/2023

“Novel Regional Anesthesia techniques in Pain Management for Spine Surgery” Panel speaker: The American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Conference 2022, New Orleans, LA, 10/24/2022

“Tailoring Regional Anesthesia Teaching” Session speaker: Educating the Educator Session, The 47th ASRA annual conference, Las Vegas, NV, 4/1/2022

“Lumbar Paraspinal Interfascial Plane (PIP) Blocks for Postoperative Pain Control on Laminectomy” Session speaker: Ask the Experts Interactive Session, The 46th ASRA annual conference, Orlando, FL. 5/9/2021

“Nerve Blocks for Spine Surgery” Grand rounds speaker, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA. 1/17/2020

"Spine Surgery in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Getting Patients Home Happy" Session speaker: North American Spine Society (NASS) 2020 Annual Conference, 10/6-10/8, 2020, Virtual Experience.

"Regional anesthesia for spine surgery" Faculty/Speaker: Multimodal Anesthesia and Analgesia for Spine Surgery. Educational Webinars, ASRA, 10/20/2020.

International:

“Opioid-Free vs. Opioid Sparing Analgesia for Spine Surgery” Panel speaker, Department of Anesthesiology, the 9th Belgrade Anesthesia Forum/Serbia Medical Association, 10/10/2024. Belgrade, Serbia.

“Opioid Free Analgesia for Spine Surgery: Possibility and Strategy” Grand rounds speaker, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, 10/4/2024. Toronto, Canada.

“Exploring the transversus abdominis plane block in cesarean sections: Toxicity risk to neonates via breast milk” Keynote speaker, 37th Global Experts Meeting on Neonatal Nursing and Maternal Healthcare. 8/24-8/25/2023, Paris, France

“Peripheral Nerve Block for Spine Surgery” Session speaker, 2020 Congress of Chinese Association of Anesthesiologist Annual Conference (Virtual). 8/9-8/10/2020, Shanghai, China

“How to Standardize the Care for Regional Anesthesiology” Session speaker, 2019 Congress of Chinese Association of Anesthesiologist Annual Conference. 4/12-4/14/2019, Qingdao, China

“Paraneuraxial nerve blocks: Can they replace neuraxial nerve blocks?” Keynote speaker, 7th International Conference of Pain Research and Management 10/2018, Zurich, Switzerland

Local/Regional:

“Silver Tsunami and Cervical Spine Surgery: An Overview for Anesthesiologists” Panel speaker, Postgraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology (PGA) 78, New York, NY, 12/7/2024

“Paraspinal Interfascial Plane Blocks for Spine Surgery” Panel speaker, Postgraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology (PGA) 77, New York, NY, 12/11/2023.

“Regional Anesthesia Techniques for Postoperative Pain Management in Spine Surgery”. Grand rounds speaker, New York-Presbyterian Westchester, 5/10/2023

“The Role of Regional Anesthesia in Spine Surgery” Grand rounds speaker, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, 2/10/2023

“Spine Surgery in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Getting Patients Home Happy” PBLD speaker, PGA 76, New York, NY, 12/2022

“Acute Pain in the Inpatient Setting” Panel speaker, New York State Pain Society 2021 Annual Conference, Hyde Park, NY, 10/30/2021

“The Role of Regional Anesthesia in Spine Surgery” Grand rounds speaker, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, 2/10/2021

“Nerve Blocks for Spine Surgery?” Grand rounds speaker, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, 9/18/2019

“Can I Block Any Part of Your Body? -New Truncal Nerve Blocks” Grand rounds speaker, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, 9/6/2018

“A Novel Approach to Post-Operative Pain Control after Scoliosis Surgery” Grand rounds speaker, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, 1/2/2018

Professional Service

• Executive Board Member, Chinese American Association of Anesthesiology
• Member-At-Large, CME Committee, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
• Member, Educational Track Subcommittee on Regional Anesthesia Acute Pain, American Society of Anesthesiology
• Member, Pain Management Committee, NYS Society of Anesthesiologists
• Member, Committee on Government and Legal Affairs, NYS Society of Anesthesiologists
• Member, Committee on Continuing Medical Education and NYS Society of Anesthesiologists
• Member, Sub-Committee on Workshops, NYS Society of Anesthesiologists

Memberships and Affiliations

• New York State Pain Society
• American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
• New York State Society of Anesthesiologists
• American Society of Anesthesiologists