Clinician using the power of research to alleviate chronic pain

‘All of my research questions come from working with patients’: OHSU anesthesiology faculty Sandy Christiansen, M.D., builds research portfolio

By Erik Robinson May 03, 2023 Portland, Oregon

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OHSU Research Week 2023

Sandy Christiansen, M.D.

Sandy Christiansen, M.D., at the OHSU Comprehensive Pain Center. An assistant professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine, Christiansen is one of very few researchers with a clinical focus on using interventional pain techniques to ease cancer pain. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Finding better pain management solutions

Sandy Christiansen, M.D., fills a syringe inside a clinic room at the OHSU Comprehensive Pain Center. An assistant professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine, Christiansen is one of very few researchers with a clinical focus on using interventional pain techniques to ease cancer pain. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Research and collaboration

Sandy Christiansen, M.D., looks over a patient case study at the OHSU Comprehensive Pain Center. An assistant professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine, Christiansen is one of very few researchers with a clinical focus on using interventional pain techniques to ease cancer pain. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)