Konstantinos D. Sarantopoulos

Dr. Konstantinos Sarantopoulos, currently Professor and Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is a clinician-scientist. He has an MD and a PhD degree from the University in Athens, Greece, as ell as an MS degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He has completed residencies in Anesthesiology in Athens, Greece, and also at the Medical College of Wisconsin, as well as a combined clinical and research fellowship in Pain Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr Sarantopoulos is an interventional pain medicine specialist, with clinical interests in ocular and facial pain, as well as a neuroscientist with basic research interests in electrophysiological properties and signaling of neuronal ion channels in neuropathic pain. He has presented several national and international lectures. His research work has been supported by several grants, including from NIH, and has resulted in numerous publications in peer reviewed journals, abstracts, book chapters and national and international awards.

Dr Sarantopoulos usually attends and participates meetings of the following societies: American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), American Society of Regional Anesthesia/Pain (ASRA), American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Headache Update Meetings (by DHC Research and Educational Foundation)