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Zirong Zhao, MD, Internal Medicine, Washington, DC, Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center

ZirongZhaoMDPhD, FACP

Internal Medicine Washington, DC

Pain Medicine

Staff Physician, Veterans Affairs Medical Center Washington, DC and Clinical Professor of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC

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Summary

  • Pain Medicine

Clinical Expertise

  • Interventional pain management

Education & Training

  • UPMC Medical Education
    UPMC Medical EducationFellowship, Pain Medicine, 2008 - 2009
  • Temple University Hospital
    Temple University HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1998 - 2001
  • Shanghai Medical University
    Shanghai Medical UniversityClass of 1985

Certifications & Licensure

  • MD State Medical License
    MD State Medical License 2001 - 2025
  • VA State Medical License
    VA State Medical License 2001 - 2012
  • DC State Medical License
    DC State Medical License 2001 - 2010
  • PA State Medical License
    PA State Medical License 1999 - 2009
  • WV State Medical License
    WV State Medical License 2001 - 2003
  • American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Pain Medicine

Clinical Trials

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Best Practice for interventional pain procedures in the setting of an iodinated contrast media shortage: a multi-society practice advisory  
    Schuster NM, Ahadian F, Zhao Z, Hooten WM, Miller DC, Hagedorn J, Gulati A, Duszynski B, McCormick ZL, Nagpal A, Interventional Pain Medicine, 7/7/2022
  • Spinal nomenclature and traffic lights—a need to standardize. Interventional Pain Medicine  
    1. Shustorovich A, Zhao Z, Wallace M, Interventional Pain Medicine, 3/2022
  • Psoas hematoma following lumbar sympathetic block in a patient with renal and liver diseases and recent use of aggrenox  
    N. Rizk, Z. Zhao and M. Loomba, Open J of Anesthesiology 2014; 4: 99-103, 2014

Professional Memberships

Other Languages

  • Chinese (Mandarin)

Hospital Affiliations