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    Kanishka Rajput, FASA, MBBS

    Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
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    Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

    Biography

    Dr. Rajput is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology in the Division of Pain Medicine at Yale University. Dr. Rajput graduated from the esteemed All India Institute of Medical Sciences in India. After finishing her internship at Yale University School of Medicine, she completed Anesthesiology residency and fellowship in Interventional Pain at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Rajput specializes in Interventional Pain procedures for a wide variety of chronic non malignant and malignant pain syndromes. She treats all patients using a multidisciplinary approach with various modalities encompassing interventions, non opioid analgesics, physical therapy and pain psychology. She offers a variety of interventional techniques that complement her comprehensive treatment approach for each patient. Actively involved in clinical research, her focus is on studying trajectories of chronic post surgical pain, devise strategies aimed at reducing perioperative opioid consumption with use of multi modal analgesics and outcomes of various interventional pain procedures.

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    • Anesthesiology

      Assistant Professor
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    Education & Training

    Resident
    Yale University School of Medicine (2009)

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    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Kanishka Rajput's published research.

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    2022

    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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      American Society of Anesthesiology

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      American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

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      Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA)

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      Connecticut State Society of Anesthesiologists

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      It’s just a Blood Patch!!! Medically challenging cases.

    Clinical Care

    Overview

    Kanishka Rajput, MD, is an anesthesiologist who sees patients at the Spine Center. She specializes in interventional pain procedures for various chronic issues, including back pain, cancer pain management, neck pain, dermatologic conditions, and spine care.

    Dr. Rajput offers different types of treatments, including non-opioid medications, physical therapy, and pain psychology.

    Actively involved in clinical research, Dr. Rajput focuses on studying chronic post-surgical pain, devising strategies to reduce opioid consumption in favor of other types of pain medicine, and monitoring outcomes of various interventional pain procedures.

    Dr. Rajput is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Yale School of Medicine.

    Clinical Specialties

    Acute Pain; Pain Medicine

    Board Certifications

    • Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology)

      Certification Organization
      AB of Anesthesiology
      Original Certification Date
      2014
    • Anesthesiology

      Certification Organization
      AB of Anesthesiology
      Original Certification Date
      2013

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