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 Dr. Imaad H. Rasool
 M.D., Ph.D., D.A.B.P.M.
Executive Medical Director
Northridge Pain Management Specialists, PC.
Northridge Advanced Surgery Center, Inc.
8331 Reseda Blvd., Northridge, CA 91324
(818) 993-3428 * Fax (818) 993-3469
imadrasoolmd@Yahoo.com

EDUCATION:

1983 - 1985

UCLA Medical Center, CA
1978 - 1982 London University, London
1971 - 1977 Baghdad Medical School,
Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq


QUALIFICATIONS:

June, 1977

 M.D. Baghdad University, Iraq
February, 1983 Ph.D. London University, UK


SPECIALTY BOARD CERTIFICATIONS:

Anesthesiology

 American Board of Anesthesiology
Pain Medicine Amercian Board of Pain Medicine

 

ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:

1999 Diplomate, American Academy of Pain Management
2003 Diplomate, The American Board of Hospital Physicians
2003 Diplomate of the American College of Ethical Physicians

Imad H. A. Rasool, M.D.
Curriculum Vitae

1995. Implantable Pain Management Devices
(Spinal Cord Stimulator & Intrathecal
Pumps)
1998 Spinal Endoscopy
1999 Intra Discal Thermal Coagulation (IDET)
1999 Endoscopic Disectomy
2002 Percutaneous Disc Decompression (Nucleoplasty)
LICENSURE: California
DEA
Fluoroscopy
APPOINTMENTS:  
5/98 - to present Executive Medical Director
Northridge Pain Management Specialists 8331 Reseda Blvd.,
Northridge, CA 91324
9/07 - to present Executive Medical Director
Northridge Advanced Surgery Center
8331 Reseda Blvd.
Northridge, CA 91324
2/01 - to present Assistant Clinical Professor
UCLA Medical Center
18300 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
2/93 - 5/98 Medical Director, Center for Pain
Management/Valley SurgiCenter
18546 Roscoe Blvd., Suite 220B
Northridge, CA 91324
4/89 - 10/92 Staff Anesthesiologist, Dept. of
Anesthesiology, Northridge Hospital
18300 Roscoe Blvd.
Northridge, CA 91325
7/85 - 5/90 Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
UCLA Medical Center
18300 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, Ca 90095
10/86 - 5/90 Director, Malignant Hypothermia Center
UCLA Medical Center
18300 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
10/78 - 1/82 Lecturer, Clinical Physiology
Department of Clinical Physiology
Guy’s Hospital
London, UK SEI 9RT
7/77 - 9/78 Teaching Associate, Department of
Physiology
Baghdad Medical School
Baghdad, Iraq
Internship, Residency and Fellowship:
9/83 - 7/85 Resident in Anesthesiology
1/85 - 7/85 Resident Team Leader
Department of Anesthesiology
UCLA Medical Center
18300 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
2/83 - 7/83 Senior Grade Senior House Officer
Department of Anesthesia
Lewishman/Guy’s Hospitals, London,
UK SEI 9RT
1/82 - 2/83 Resident Medical Officer, General
Medicine
Nuffield House, Guy’s Hospital
London, UK SEI 9RT
10/78 - 1/82 Fellow
Department of Anesthesia
and Clinical Physiology
Guy’s Hospital
London, UK SEI 9RT
8/77 - 9/78 House Officer, General Medicine
Gynecology & Obstetrics and
Intensive Care Units
Kadymia General Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq


MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

2000 - present American Medical Association
2000 - present North American Spine Society
2001 present American Society of interventional Pain Physicians
2003 - present American Academy of Pain Medicine
2003 - present American Pain Society
2003 - present International study of pain
1999 - present American Academy of Pain Management
1987 - 1996 American Society of Anesthesiologists
1987 - 1996 California Society of Anesthesiologists
1985 - 1990 International Anesthesia Research Society
1978 - 1983 British Medical Defense Union


PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Abdul-Rasool, I.H.: Oxygen consumption and carbon diozide production before and after surgical and pharmacological stress. Ph.D. Thesis, London University, 1983.
  2. Abdul-Rasool, I.H., Chamberlain, J.H., Swan, P.C., and Mitchell, F.T.: Measurement of respiratory gas exchange during artificial respiration. J. Apple Physiol., 51:1451-1456, 1986.
    (This paper was present in part by Dr. Abdul-Rasool at the Second Congress of the European Society of Parental and Enteral Nutrition, Newcastle, U.K., and the Third World Congress on Intensive Care Medicine, 1981, Washington, D.C., USA.
  3. Abdul-Rasool, I.H., Chamberlain, J.H., and Mitchell, F.T.: Respiratory Gas Exchange in Ventilated Patients, Br.J. Anaesth., 52:955, 1980.
  4. Abdul-Rasool, I.H., and Chamberlain, J.H.: Respiratory gas exchange before and after cardiac operation. J. Thorac Cariovasc. Surg. 85:856-863, 1983.
  5. Abdul-Rasool, I.H., and Chamberlain, J.H., Swan, P.C. and Ward, D.S.: The cardiorespiratory and metabolic effects of dopamine and dobutamine infusion in dogs. Critical Care Medicine, 15(11), 1044-1050, 1987
  6. Abdul-Rasool, I.H. and Khoury, G.: Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation. Seminars in Anesthesia, 6, 143-151, 1987.
  7. Abdul-Rasool, I.H., Ginsburg, R., Aqleh, K.A., and Ward, D.S.: The ventilatory response to exercise during graded enflurane anesthesia in dogs. Anesthesiology, 65, A271, 1986.
  8. Abdul-Rasool, I.H., Aqleh, K., Jenkins, J.S., Valcke, C.P., and Ward, D.S.: The effect of sufentanil infusion on the ventilatory responses to hypercapnia and hypoxia during isoflurane anesthesia in dogs. Anesthesiology, 67, A539, 1987.
  9. Abdul-Rasool, I.H., Sears, D.H., and Katz, R.L.: The effect of second dose of succinylcholine on cardiac rate and rhythm following induction of anesthesia with etomidate or midazolam. Anesthesiology, 67, 795-797, 1987.
  10. Abdul-Rasool, I.H., Chamberlain, J.H., and Ward, D.S.: The relationship between oxygen flux and demand during and after dobutamine and dopamine infusion in dogs. Federation Proceedings, 1479, 1985.
  11. Khoury, G., and Abdul-Rasool, I.H.: The hemodynamic and metabolic changes liver transplantation. Seminars in Anesthesia, 6, 309-316, 1987.
  12. Sears, D.H., Abdul-Rasool, I.H., Katz, R.L.: Succinylcholine-induced arrhythmias following anesthetic induction with etomidate and midazolam, Anesthesiology, 65, A120, 1986.
  13. Khoury, G.F., Mann, ME., Porot, M.J., Abdul-Rasool, I.H., and Busittil, R.W., R.W.: Air embolism associated with veno-venous bypass during orthotopic liver transplantation. Anesthesiology, 67, 848-851, 1987.
  14. Memsic, L., Quinones-Baldrich, W., Kaufman, R., Abdul-Rasool, I.H., and Busittil, R.W.: A comparison of porcine orthotopic liver transplantation using a venous-venous bypass with and without a non-pulsatile pump. J. Surg. Res. 41(1), 33 40, 1986.
  15. Bussittil, R.W., Colonna, J.O., Hiatt, J.R., Brems, J.J., Khoury, G.F., Goldstein, L.I., Quinones-Baldrich, W.J., Abdul-Rasool, I.H., and Ramming K.P.: The first 100 liver transplants at UCLA.. Ann. Surg. 206 (4), 388-401, 1987.
  16. Sears, D.H., Abdul-Rasool, I.H., and Katz, R.L.: The effect of a Second dose of succinylcholine on cardiac rate and rhythm following induction of anesthesia with ketamine, Anesthesiology, 68, 644, 1988.
  17. Ward, D.S., Ginsburg, R., Abdul-Rasool, I.H., and Aqleh, K.: Effects of enflurane on the ventilatory response to increased carbon dioxide and metabolic rate in dogs. Control of Breathing During Sleep and Anesthesia, Plenum Press, 167-171, 1988.
  18. Wackym, P.A., and Abdul-Rasool, I.H.: Prospective management of malignant hyperthermia in the otolaryngological patient. J. Laryngol Otol., 102, 513-516, 1988.
  19. Wackym, P.A., Dubrow, T.J., Abdul-Rasool, I.H., and Peacock, W.J.: Neurosurgery in the malignant hyperthermia susceptible patient. Neurosurgery, 22, 1032-1036, 1988.
  20. Dubrow, T.J., Wackym, P.A. Abdul-Rasool, I.H., and Moore, T.C.: Malignant hyperthermia: Experience in the prospective management of eight children. J. Pediat. Surg., 24, 163-166, 1988.
  21. Abdul-Rasool, I.H., and Ward, D.S.: The ventilatory and cardiovascular responses to sufentanil infusion in dogs anesthetized with isoflurane, Anesthesia and analgesia, 69, 300-6, 1989.
  22. Wackym, P.A. Dubrow, T.J., Abdul-Rasool, I.H., and Lesavoy, M.H.: Malignant hypothermia in plastic surgery, J. Plast. Reconst. Surg., 82, 878-882, 1988.
  23. Abdul-Rasool, I.H.: Malignant hyperthermia diagnostic center at UCLA. The communicator, MHAUS, 6, 3, 1988.
  24. Abdul-Rasool, I.H., Hsieh, J. Nguyen, D., Ward, D.D., Bloor, B.: The respiratory effects of the Alpha 2 Agonist Dexmedetomidine in unanesthetized dogs, Anesthesiology, 71, 1092, 1989.
  25. Abdul-Rasool, I.H., Kobayashi, D.P., Nguyen, P.A., Ward D.S., Bloor B.: A comparison of ventilatory responses for equianesthetic doses of isoflurane versus dexmedetomidine and isoflurane combination, Anesthesiology, 71, 1093, 1989.
  26. Abdul-Rasool, I.H. Menon, G., Nguyen, D., Ward, D.S., Bloor, B.C.: The effects of BHT-920, an Alpha 2 Agonist, on the ventilatory responses to hypercapnia and hypoxia in unanesthetized dogs, Anesthesiology, 71, 1095, 1989.
  27. Nguyen, D., Abdul-Rasool, I.H., Ward, D.S., Hsieh, J., Kobayashi, D., Hadlock, S., Singer, F., Bloor, B.: Ventilatory effects of Dexmedetomidine, Atipamezole, and isoflurance in dogs, Anesthesiology, 76, 20, 1992.

 

 
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