
Zhonghui Guan MD
Pain Medicine
Professor, Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
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2255 Post StSan Francisco, CA 94115
Phone+1 415-885-7246
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Education & Training
Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General HospitalResidency, Anesthesiology, 2005 - 2008
Jersey Shore University Medical CenterInternship, Internal Medicine, 2004 - 2005
Peking Union Medical CollegeClass of 1994
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 2008 - 2026
American Board of Anesthesiology Anesthesiology
American Board of Anesthesiology Pain Medicine
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Regional Top Doctor Castle Connolly, 2014-2017
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2013
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Saphenous-sural nerve injury: a sensory-specific rodent model of neuropathic pain without motor deficits.Po-Yi Paul Su, Liangliang He, Lingyi Zhang, Jessica Yu, Zhonghui Guan
Pain. 2025-11-01 - 1 citationsOrexinergic projections to substantia innominata mediate arousal and analgesia.Xuaner Xiang, Fei Wang, Chao Chen, Zhonghui Guan, Wei Zhou
British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2025-09-01 - Higher circulating short-chain fatty acids are associated with good neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest.Ori J Lieberman, Virginia Yao, Gerardo Velasquez, Matheus Otero, Kevin Bao
Critical Care. 2025-08-20
Journal Articles
- Activation of Orexin System Facilitates Anesthesia Emergence and Pain ControlWei Zhou, Zhonghui Guan, Philip A Kurien, Lynn Wang, Philip E Bickler, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Press Mentions
Inpatient, Discharge Opioid Doses Often Mismatched After Head and Neck SurgeryJuly 6th, 2023
Grant Support
- Mechanism of microglia proliferationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO2021–2026
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