Robert A. Swarm, M.D.

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and
Chief, Section of Pain Management

Medical Degree (1983)
Washington University School of Medicine

Residency in General Surgery (1986)
Washington University School of Medicine

Residency in Anesthesiology (1989)
Washington University School of Medicine

Fellowship in Pain Management (1991)
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Dr. Swarm's areas of clinical interest include chronic cancer-related pain, multidisciplinary management of chronic non-cancer pain, acute pain and postoperative pain.

Swarm RA, Karanikolas M, and Kalauokalani D. (2001) pain treatment in the perioperative period. Curr Probl Surg 39(11): 835-920.

Karanikolas M and Swarm RA (2000) Current trends in perioperative pain management. Anesthesiol Clin North America 18(3): 575-99.

Dunteman E, Turner S, Swarm RA. (1996) Pseudo-spinal headache. Regional Anesthesia 21:358-60.

Dunteman ED, Swarm RA. Atypical facial "neuralgia." (1995) Anesthesia and Analgesia 80:188-90.

Swarm RA, Cousins MI. Anaesthetic Techniques for Pain Control. Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, 2nd Edition. Eds. Doyle D, Hanks GWC, MacDonald N, Oxford, England, Oxford University Press 1998; pp 390-414.

Swarm RA, Cousins MI. Anaesthetic Techniques for Pain Control. Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. Eds. Doyle D, Hanks GWC, MacDonald N, Oxford, England, Oxford University Press 1993; pp 204-221.