Dr. Asokumar Buvanendran is an anesthesiologist specializing in pain medicine, Chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Pain Committee, and President of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. He dedicates time to research and teaching, including clinical duties in the Rush University Department of Anesthesiology and national advocacy for advancement in pain care. He was a reviewer of the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. At Rush, Buvanendran is William Gottschalk, Endowed Chair of Anesthesiology, Vice Chair of Research, Director of Orthopedic Anesthesia, and Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology. He brings a unique perspective, with a very busy clinical practice of acute and chronic interventional pain medicine with research. While a large focus of his practice is on chronic pain patients, his department also has a collaborative agreement with the Department of Orthopedics, where they foster treatment modalities before patients have surgery—improving both postoperative pain for patients and outcomes. He was one of the early pioneer researchers in multimodal analgesia for orthopedic surgery with key publications in JAMA. Buvanendran has also served as Medical Director for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery and Co-Director of the Anesthesiology Research Clerkship at Rush.