Medical Advisory Board

Oscar A. de Leon-Casasola, MD

Chief of Pain Medicine, Director of Research and Professor of Oncology at the Department of Anesthesiology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Dr. Oscar de Leon-Casasola is the Vice-Chair for Clinical Affairs, and Professor of Anesthesiology (Tenure Track), Department of Anesthesiology, University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He is also Director of Research, Chief of Pain Medicine and Professor of Oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY

Dr. de Leon-Casasola is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management. He also serves in the Editorial Board of Seminars in Pain Medicine, the Journal of the Spanish Society of Pain, and the Journal of the Argentinean Society of Anesthesiologist.

Dr. de Leon-Casasola received his medical training at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala after obtaining a degree in Music with Specialty in Piano. He then underwent surgical residency SUNY at Downstate, followed by anesthesia residency at SUNY-Buffalo.

He is board certified in Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Pain Management. He has served as Director of the Acute Pain Service, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, and Chief of Critical Care Medicine at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. He has received many honors and awards and has served as Visiting Professor at several Universities in the US, Latin-America and Europe.

Dr. de Leon-Casasola has lectured at more that 150 academic institutions and hospitals throughout North and South America, and Europe. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in major scientific journals, and has been a chapter contributor in many books. He recently published the book Cancer Pain – Pharmacological, Interventional, and Palliative Care Approaches.

Dr. de Leon-Casasola is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management (ASRAPM) and has served as the Chair of the Scientific Committee for that Society’s pain meeting. He is also a member of the Ad Hoc Scientific Content Subcommittee on Pain Medicine and the Pain Medicine Committee of the American Society of Anesthesiologist (ASA) and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Adult Cancer Pain Panel.

Dr. de Leon-Casasola has been honored with many awards; the most recent ones include “Top Doctors in the US” and “100 Top Docs in Buffalo”.

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