Leadership: Dr. Nabil Elkassabany, MD, MSCE, MBA

Nabil Elkassabany, MD, MSCE MBA, Anesthesiology Vice Chair of Clinical Operations

Prior to joining the University of Virginia Department of Anesthesiology Nabil Elkassabany was an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He was the Director of the sections of Regional and Orthopedic Anesthesiology. He was also the Director of the Anesthesia Service at the ambulatory surgery facility at Penn Medicine at University City.

Dr. Elkassabany did his undergraduate and medical education at Alexandria University, Egypt. He completed his anesthesia residency training at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio and his regional anesthesia subspecialty training at the University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida. He earned a Master Degree in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics in December 2012 from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and his MBA in December 2021 from the Fox School of Business, Temple University in Philadelphia. Dr. Elkassabany is also the Fellowship Program Director for Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

He was inducted to the Academy of Master Clinicians at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018. His research interest focuses on patients’ outcomes after orthopedic surgery, specifically patients who receive regional anesthesia in different clinical settings. He is especially interested in improving patient outcomes after major joint arthroplasty and defining the value added by regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine to patients’ perioperative experience. Nabil is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA). He also Chairs the Educational Track Subcommittee on Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine at the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). Dr. Elkassabany will be starting on July 1st, 2022.