Prof. Hazem Adel Ashmawi

CNPq Research Productivity Scholarship – Standard 2

Positions: Permanent faculty and supervisor of Medical Residency Program in Pain, Anesthesiology. He is also an advisor at this graduate program.

Specialty: Medicine: Pain Mechanisms

Fields of interest: pain, aging and gender, experimental pain

Healthcare unit: Central Institute

h-index: 15 (Google Scholar); 11 (Scopus)

Advisees

Currently

Alumni

Activity as editor or reviewer of scientific papers

Associate Professor at Medical School of Universidade de São Paulo
Member of International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
Reviewer and member of the Editorial Board of DOR journal
Ad hoc assistant for FAPESP since 2012
Postdoctoral studies in Anesthesiology, under the supervision of Prof Timothy J Brennan, from August 2008 to January 2010
- Project: Genetic expression of ionic channels linked to skin, muscle and lymph-node nociception of the dorsal root in a post-operatory pain model in rats

International activity

2014

15th World Congress on Pain, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 9-11, 2014, having presented a poster

2013

He visited the Queens Hospital, BHR University Hospitals NHS Trust, to participate in the 12TH UK Hands-on Cadaver Workshop on Interventional Pain Procedures, Nerve Block Course for Treatment of Pain in Cadaver, London, UK, December 5-11, 2013

Defended thesis and related article

Title: Effects of pyrilamine and cimetidine in the expression of C-FOS mRNA and in the modified formalin test

Advisor: Irimar de Paula Posso

Date of defense: 12/06/2000

Ashmawi HA, Chambergo FS, Araújo Palmeira CC, de Paula Posso I. The effects of pyrilamine and cimetidine on mRNA C-fos expression and nociceptive flinching behavior in rats. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2003;97(2):541-546. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12873950