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Douglas G. Ririe, MD

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Douglas G. Ririe, MD

Douglas G. Ririe, MD

  • Professor, Anesthesiology

Research Interests

  • Analgesics, Opioid
  • Anesthetics
  • Brain Circuitries
  • Ganglia, Spinal
  • Hyperalgesia
  • Mechanoreceptors
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Education
BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981
MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 1990
PhD, Wake Forest University, 2008
MHA, Louisiana State University - Shreveport, 2019
Internship
Henry Holt Bradshaw Research Fellowship, Cambridge Hospital, 1991
Residency
Anesthesiology, North Carolina Baptist Hospital, 1994
Fellowship
Harvard Medical School, 1995
Board Certifications
American Board of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology
American Board of Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology
Memberships
American Society of Anesthesiologists
Society of Pediatric Anesthesia
Society for Neuroscience
Positions
Section Head, Anesthesiology - Pediatric Anesthesia
Professor, Anesthesiology
Departments and Affiliations
Anesthesiology - Pediatric Anesthesia
Anesthesiology

Research

  • Publications
  • Recovery from nerve injury induced behavioral hypersensitivity in rats parallels resolution of abnormal primary sensory afferent signaling. Boada MD, Martin TJ, Parker R, Houle TT, Eisenach JC, Ririe DG. Pain. 2020 Feb;
  • Nociceptive input after peripheral nerve injury results in cognitive impairment and alterations in primary afferent physiology in rats. Boada MD, Ririe DG, Martin CW, Martin SJ, Kim SA, Eisenach JC, Martin TJ. Pain. 2020 Feb;
  • Assessment of Common Criteria for Awake Extubation in Infants and Young Children. Templeton TW, Goenaga-Díaz EJ, Downard MG, McLouth CJ, Smith TE, Templeton LB, Pecorella SH, Hammon DE, O'Brien JJ, McLaughlin DH, Lawrence AE, Tennant PR, Ririe DG. Anesthesiology. 2019 10; 131(4):801-808.
  • Incisional Nociceptive Input Impairs Attention-related Behavior and Is Associated with Reduced Neuronal Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex in Rats. Ririe DG, Boada MD, MacGregor MK, Martin SJ, Strassburg TJ, Kim SA, Eisenach JC, Martin TJ. Anesthesiology. 2018 10; 129(4):778-790.
  • An inconvenient truth: Supraglottic devices can lead to potentially significant increases in the apparatus dead space in the anesthetized infant. Templeton TW, Goenaga-Díaz EJ, Templeton LB, Ririe DG. Paediatr Anaesth. 2018 07; 28(7):672-673.
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Research Interests

  • Analgesics, Opioid
  • Anesthetics
  • Brain Circuitries
  • Ganglia, Spinal
  • Hyperalgesia
  • Mechanoreceptors
  • Neural Conduction
  • Neuroscience
  • Pain, Postoperative
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