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Chief, Anesthesia Service Line
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
OMB No. 0925-0001 and 0925-0002 (Rev. 12/2020 Approved Through 02/28/2023)
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NAME: Timothy Charles Dawson
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POSITION TITLE: Chief, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, VA Puget Sound Health Care System
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FIELD OF STUDY
University of Kansas BA 05/1994 Biology
Harvard Medical School MD 06/1998 Medicine
Walter Reed Army Medical Center Internship 06/1999 General Surgery
National Capital Consortium (Walter Reed Army Medical Center, National Naval MC) Residency 06/2002 Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine Fellowship 06/2006 Pain Medicine
A. Personal Statement
I am currently the VA Puget Sound HCS Chief of the Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Service Line and the Director of the VISN 20 Pain Medicine and Functional Restoration Center. I am the Chief Anesthesiology Consultant for VISN 20. I serve as a Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Prior to my current position I was the director of a private practice, Northern California Pain Care, for seven years in the San Francisco Bay Area. During that time, I also served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (part-time faculty) at the Stanford University School of Medicine. I also serve as the Chair of the VISN 20 Opioid Safety and Pain Management Committee, the Chair of the VAPSHCS Opioid Safety Review Board, Director of the VISN 20 Pain Mini-Residency for Primary Care and serve on the VHA National Pain Committee. My clinical background in Pain Medicine and in the VA will help me serve as a member of the Stakeholder Advisory Group and direct how the study findings can best be incorporated into VA practice.
B. Positions, Scientific Appointments, and Honors
Positions
2002-2005 Anesthesiologist, Tripler Army Medical Center
2003-2005 Medical Director Tripler Army Medical Center Pain Management and Rehabilitation Clinic
2003-2005 Chief of Tripler Army Medical Center Inpatient Acute Pain Management Service
2006-2010 Director, Marin General Hospital Pain Management Committee
2006-2012 Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (part-time faculty),
Stanford University Medical Center and School of Medicine
2006-2012 Northern California Pain Care/Restore Functional Restoration Center
2012-2018 Director, Pain Medicine Section, VA Puget Sound Health Care System
2012-present Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
2012-present Director, VISN 20 Pain Medicine and Functional Restoration Center
2018-present Chief, Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Service Line, VA Puget Sound Health Care System
2019-present Co-Chair, VHA National Pain Management Specialty Team
2020-present VISN 20 Chief Anesthesiology Consultant
Honors
1992 Beta Theta Pi Founder’s Fund Scholarship
1993 William Townsend Porter Fellowship
1993 Alpha Nu of Beta Theta PI Educational Foundation Scholarship
1990-1994 Howard Hughes Biological Sciences Institute Scholarship
1990-1994 University of Kansas Endowment Merit Scholarship
1994 Agnes Wright Strickland Award
1994 University of Kansas Hilltopper Award
1995-1998 United States Army Health Professions Scholarship
1995-1998 United States Army Health Professions Scholarship
2008 Stanford Pain Management Center Certificate of Teaching Excellence 2007-2008
C. Contributions to Science
1. Development, outcome measures and evidence-based practice for interdisciplinary pain care and functional restoration. I have been actively involved over the past decade in the development of curricula and program deployment as well as outcomes analysis of functional restoration programs for the interdisciplinary treatment of chronic pain.
a. Canlas B, Dawson T. Restoring function in Veterans with complex chronic pain. Federal Practitioner 2017 Oct; 36.
b. Canlas BR Moore J, Tuck L, Hollrah L, Dawson T, McGranaghan P, Hedt S, Wolfe A, Rinehart, K, Ault J, Muth M, Racela A. Exploratory Analysis of Chronic Pain Treatment Outcomes in an Outpatient and Residential Setting in the Veteran Population. Pain Med 2018: 19(4):900.
2. Understanding the efficacy and predictive value of interventional pain management procedures for the treatment of lumbar and sacral pain. I have participated as a local PI or co-investigator on multicenter and individual center trials, looking at the effectiveness and predictive value of lumbar medial branch blocks and lateral branch nerve blocks for sacroiliitis and the effectiveness of radiofrequency denervation for lumbar facet arthropathy. This includes a pilot randomized trial of lumbar radiofrequency denervation, led by Dr. Suri, not yet reflected in my publication record.
a. Cohen SP, Doshi TL, Dawson TC, et al Prognostic value of hypersensitivity reactions on epidural injection outcomes: a phenotypic signature? A prospective cohort study. Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine 2019;44:586-594
b. Cohen SP, Doshi TL, Constantinescu OC, Zhao Z, Kurihara C, Larkin TM, Griffith SR, Jacobs MB, Kroski WJ, Dawson TC, Fowler IM, White RL, Verdun AJ, Jamison DE, Anderson-White M, Shank SE, Pasquina PF. Effectiveness of Lumbar Facet Joint Blocks and Predictive Value before Radiofrequency Denervation: The Facet Treatment Study (FACTS), a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial. Anesthesiology. 2018 Sep; 129(3): 517-535.
