Meet Our Team
Director
Parakulam S Thomas, MD, FACA
750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
315 464-4259
Current Appointments
- Professor of Anesthesiology
- Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology
- Program Director of the Pain Medicine Fellowship of Anesthesiology
Hospital Campus
- Downtown
- Community
Clinical Section Affiliations
- Anesthesiology: Acute Pain Management, Chronic Pain Management, General Anesthesia, Pain Treatment, Regional Anesthesiology
Clinic/Unit
- Upstate Orthopedics Ambulatory Surgery Center
Upstate Bone and Joint Center
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Suite 205, 6620 Fly Road
East Syracuse, NY 13057
315 464-4259
- Upstate Comprehensive Pain Management Center
Upstate Bone and Joint Center
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Suite 205, 6620 Fly Road
East Syracuse, NY 13057
315 464-4259
- Anesthesiology at University Hospital
Upstate University Hospital
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750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
315 464-8668
Education & Fellowships
- Residency: Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, 1980
- MD: Gandhi Nagar Medical College, India, 1972
Clinical Interests
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy; low back pain
Research Interests
Low Back Pain; Discogenic Disease; Spinal Stenosis; Lumbar Radiculopathy; Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy; Myofascial Pain Syndrome; Past Laminectomy Syndrome; Headaches; Facet disease; Fibromyalgia
Clinical Trials
- The utility of Stellate Ganglion Blocks in patients with PTSD and Neuropathic pain
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Specialties & Certification
- Anesthesiology
- Chronic Pain Management
Treats
- Adults and Children
Treatments/Services
- Adult Anesthesiology
- Chronic Pain Rehabilitation
- Electrical Stimulation for Pain
- Epidural/Caudal
- Fluoroscopic Guided Precision Blocks
- General Anesthesia for Bone Marrow Biopsy and Aspiration, and Spinal Tap Procedures
- General Anesthesia for Dental Procedures
- General Anesthesia for Radiographic Procedures (MRI, CT Scan, Interventional Radiology, Nuclear Medicine)
- General Anesthesia for Surgical Procedures (General Surgery, ENT, Orthopedics, Vascular, Neurosurgery, and Others)
- Intrathecal Pump Management
- Intrathecal Pump Refill
- Pain Control
- Periphal blocks
Associations/Memberships
- American Society of Anesthesiologists
- New York State Society of Anesthesiologists (NYSSA)
Current Hospital Privileges
- Upstate University Hospital
- VA Medical Center
Languages Spoken (Other Than English)
- Malayalam
Web Resources
Publications
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Research Abstract
Selected References
B.R. Krauss, A. Barbar, P.S. Thomas, A.V. Apkarian, Performance on a Decision-Making Task in Sympathetically Mediated Chronic Pain (RSD CRPS I) Patients: Evidence for Cognitive Impairment. 9th World Congress on Pain, August 22-27, 1999, Vienna, Austria
Willoughby PH, Thomas PS, Kamani V, Joy S. Epidural Blood Patch Performed on a 23 Month Old Male: A Case Report. 53rd Post Graduate Assembly, New York, New York, December 1999.
Igor D. Grachev, TS Ramachandran, Thomas, PS, NM Szeverenyi, BF Fredrickson: Association between dorsolateral prefrontal N-acetyl aspartate and depression in chronic back pain: An in vivo evidence for overlapping circuitries in the brain, Submitted for publication in Journal of Neural Transmission, January 18, 2002.
Thomas PS, Apkarian AV, Krauss BR, Szeverenyi NM: Differential effects of blocking chronic RSD pain on frontal and parietal cortical activations: an MRI study. Soc. Neurosci, Abstract. 21 (1995)
Thomas PS, Krauss BR, Apkarian AV, Szeverenyi NM: Sympathetically maintained chronic pain is a hyperfrontal condition. Soc. Neurosci Abst. 23 (1997)
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