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Pedro Tanaka

Department of Anesthesia, Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University, California, USA

Biography

Pedro Tanaka is  Clinical Professor in the Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University Medical School. I am Brazilian and completed medical school, anesthesia training, and my PhD in Brazil. I was appointed as an Instructor at Federal University of Paraná in Brazil in 1994, promoted to Assistant Professor in 1996 and to Associate Professor in 2000. I came to Stanford University for a sabbatical year in 2007. It was a great fit on both sides, and I decided on a long-term career at Stanford. I recently graduated from “The Master of Academic Medicine program” at University of Southern California.


Publications

Development and Testing of a Curriculum for Teaching Informed Consent for Spinal Anesthesia to Anesthesiology Residents

Introduction: Properly obtaining informed consent for spinal anesthesia is a skill expected of anesthesiology residents. The goals of the study were to 1) use a Delphi method to develop a curriculum for teaching informed consent for spinal anesthesia, and a checklist of required elements; 2) determine which elements of the informed consent process ... Read More»

Pedro Tanaka, Leeanne Park, Maria Tanaka, Ankeet D Udani and Alex Macario

Research Article: J Pain Relief 2016, 5:259

DOI: 10.4172/2167-0846.1000259

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