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This page still sounds promotional and still like the old deleted revision. I did't search well before draftifying to know it was previously deleted. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 16:56, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Akhtar Purvez is an American author, physician and medical researcher.
Born in Jammu and Kashmir, India, he studied in Government Medical College (GMC) in Srinagar. He moved to the United States where he was trained in surgery and anesthesia at Brooklyn Hospital Center and the University of Virginia respectively. After graduating, he began practicing pain medicine in central Virginia, thus, becoming a certified doctor in Pain Medicine by American Board of Anesthesiology.
Career
[edit]Public lectures
[edit]He is actively involved in promoting health, exercise, and fitness in an attempt to improve these parameters for the general population. He speaks on the interactions between pain and addiction issues. He frequently speaks on new and emerging health research that may revolutionize the way healthcare is currently provided. He has been on speaking panels of major pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer, Forest, Abbvie and Purdue. He has also been speaking on radio and television.[1]
Medicolegal experience
[edit]He has been called on as a medical expert and witness in multiple cases over more than twenty years and has significant knowledge and experience of the intricate issues involved. Many of these employer-employee issues relate to occupational health, traumatic occupational injury and motor vehicle accident claims and their management.[2]
Medical career
[edit]Researches
[edit]Akhtar Purvez has extensive research experience and has been involved in investigational medical research in more than a dozen groundbreaking studies, many involving new drug research. These include new medications for chronic pain and fibromyalgia like milnocipran, other medications for osteoarthritis, and vaccines.[3]
Editorials and Case Reports
[edit]Akhtar Purvez sits on medical journal boards and has editorials and multiple case reports to his credit. These include a recent editorial on the relationship between COVID-19 and opioid epidemic.[4] The case reports include those on medication effects and side effects, and foreign bodies in upper aerodigestive tract. A recent report on the adverse effects of monosodium glutamate (MSG) used mainly in Chinese food and resulting in recurrent episodes of atrial fibrillation, an ongoing epidemic of its own from aging population, was well received.,[5][6]
Academic appointments
[edit]Akhtar Purvez is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, Lincoln Memorial University, Tennessee.[7] He is also the President and CEO of the Pain and Spine Center of Charlottesville in Virginia.[8]
Publications
[edit]- Managing Chronic Pain in an Age of Addiction ISBN 9781538109243 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)
- The Brain Behind Pain: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection ISBN 9781538172810 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
References
[edit]- ^ Purvez on ABC with Tab O'Neil. APHARWHAT. 30 May 2009.
- ^ Traumatic Occupational Injuries. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 26 July 2022.
- ^ Savella milnacipram HCl. SAVELLA.
- ^ Confronting the devastating 'Twindemic': Drug overdose deaths and the COVID-19. Anaesthesia, Pain and Intensive Care. 29 October 2022. DOI 10.35975/apic.v26i6.2064.
- ^ Recurrent atrial fibrillation episodes are related to monosodium glutamate (MSG)- a case report. Anaesthesia, Pain and Intensive Care. 4 July 2023. DOI 10.35975/apic.v27i4.2273.
- ^ Atrial Fibrillation: the current epidemic. NIH.11 March 2017. ISBN 1671-5411.2017.03.11.
- ^ Lincoln Memorial University Home Page. Lincoln Memorial University.
- ^ Pain and Spine Center of Charlottesville Home Page. Pain and Spine Center of Charlottesville.
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