Our medical director, Dr. Arun Kalava, is Board Certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology and European Society of Regional Anesthesia & Pain Therapy [EDRA]. He completed a post-residency fellowship in Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine from Mayo Clinic. Also, he is a distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists [FASA] and an internationally published researcher. Dr. Kalava currently has a faculty appointment at the University of Central Florida- College of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology.

Education & experience

Education

Medical School - Siddhartha Medical College, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Residency in Anesthesiology

Trinity Health Mid Atlantic, Mercy Catholic Medical Center, Internship in Internal Medicine

Mayo Clinic (Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine)

Practice

Alun Kalava, M.D., FASA, EDRA

Affiliation

Memorial Hospital of Tampa

Tampa General Hospital

Kindred Hospital - Bay Area Tampa

Certifications

American Board of Anesthesiology

Professional memberships

American Society of Anesthesiologists

European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy

American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Florida Society of Anesthesiologists

Hillsborough County Medical Association

Awards and publications

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Central Florida-School of Medicine (2019)

Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (2018)

Editor-in-Chief, Pain Medicine, StatPearls Publications, Florida (2018)

Best Anesthesiology Resident, New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, NY (2014)

Chief Anesthesiology Resident, New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

The Brokenshire-Forsythe Memorial Award for Best Original Scientific Paper Presented by the Physicians Alumni Association of the Methodist Hospital (2013)

2nd Prize, Oral Presentation, Anesthesiology Residents’ Night New York Academy Of Medicine, New York, NY

Best Anesthesiology Resident, New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, NY (2013)

The Brokenshire-Forsythe Memorial Award for Best Original Scientific Paper Presented by the Physicians Alumni Association of the Methodist Hospital (2012)

1st place, American College of Physicians (ACP) Pennsylvania Southeastern 2010 Poster Competition; Title: Excessive Test Ordering (2010)

Anesthesia Alert: 8 Little-Known Facts About Ketamine - Anesthetic and Analgesic Properties that make Special K Special

Kalava A, Arslan OE, McClain RL. Supraspinatus plane block: A novel approach to suprascapular nerve block for rotator cuff repair. J Clin Anesth. 2019 Mar 6;57:20-21

Mannino N, Kalava A. Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Urological Procedures, ASRA Newsletter, 11/2018

Kalava A, Pribish AM. Postoperative atrial fibrillation after cesarean delivery. Rom J Anaesth Intensive Care. 2018 Oct;25(2):111-116. doi: 10.21454/rjaic.7518.252.klv. PubMed PMID: 30393767

Kalava A, Pribish AM. T1 Paravertebral Catheter for Postoperative Pain Management After First Rib Resection for Venous Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: A Case Report A & A Practice January 15, 2018

Pribish AM, Kalava A. Are paravertebral nerve blocks an answer to pain after iliac crest bone marrow biopsy? J Clin Anesth. 2017 Dec 15;45:22. PubMed PMID: 29253767

Kalava A, Camporesi E, Illig KA, Robards CB. T1, T2 paraverterbal blocks provide opioid sparing in first rib resection for thoracic outlet syndrome. J Clin Anesth. 2017 Dec 4;45:4-5 PubMed PMID: 29216506

Kalava A, Pribish AM, Wiegand LR Pudendal nerve blocks in men undergoing urethroplasty: A Case Series, Romanian Journal of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 2017 Vol 24 No 2, 159-162 PubMed PMID: 29090268

AE Ardon, RR Reed, RL McClain, A Kalava, J Lee, J Redmond, R Greengrass, Continuous L2 Paravertebral Block for Postoperative Analgesia After Direct Anterior Hip Arthroplasty: A case series, Middle Eastern Journal of Anesthesiology 24 (1), 35-42, February 2017

Kalava A, Clendenen S, McKinney JM, Bojaxhi E, Greengrass R, Bilateral thoracic paravertebral nerve blocks for placement of percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a case series, Romanian Journal of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 2016 Vol 23 No 2, 149-153 PubMed PMID: 28913488

Bojaxhi E, Kalava A, Greengrass R. Utilization of paravertebral nerve blocks as part of a multimodal analgesic regimen in a patient with Bernard-Soulier syndrome undergoing a Nuss procedure Romanian Journal of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 2016 Vol 23 No 1, 67-71 PubMed PMID: 28913478

Kalava A, Clark K, McIntyre J, Yarmush JM, Lizardo T. Mistaken Endobronchial Placement of a Nasogastric Tube During Mandibular Fracture Surgery. Anesth Prog. 2015 Fall; 62(3): 114-117 PubMed PMID: 26398128

Kalava A, Ravindranath S, Bronshteyn I, R S Munjal, SchianodiCola J, Yarmush JM. Typing Skills of Physicians in Training. Journal of Graduate Medical Education, March 2014, Vol. 6, No. 1 PubMed PMID: 24701328

Kalava A, Lam N, What’s new in Regional Anesthesiology? Introduction to the Pecs Block, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Newsletter, February 2014

Kalava A, Darji SJ, Kalstein A, Yarmush JM, SchianodiCola J, Weinberg J. Efficacy of ginger on intraoperative and postoperative nausea and vomiting in elective cesarean section patients. European Journal of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. 2013 Mar 16;169(2):184-8 PubMedPMID: 23510951

Kalava A, Mardakh S, Weinberg J, SchianodiCola J, Yarmush JM, Ahmed KY. Anesthetic Management of Undiagnosed Advanced Extrauterine Pregnancy under Combined Spinal Epidural Anesthesia, Journal of Anesthesiology and Clinical Science, 2012 Nov 3

Kalava A, Midha M, Kurnutala LN, SchianodiCola J, Yarmush JM. How clean are the overhead lights in operating rooms? American Journal of Infection Control, 2013 Apr;41(4):387-8. PubMed PMID: 23062578

Kalava A, Kalstein A, Koyfman S, Mardakh S, Yarmush JM, SchianodiCola J. Pulseless electrical activity during electroconvulsive therapy: a case report. BMC Anesthesiology. 2012 May 31;12:8 PubMed PMID:22650157

Background

Languages spoken

English

Gender

Male

NPI number

#1780817056

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