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L. Douglas Van Fossen, D.O.

Fellowship

Pain Management
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Residency

Anesthesiology, 
Grandview Hospital, Dayton, Ohio

Internship

Grandview Hospital, Dayton, Ohio

Medical School

Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Undergraduate

University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio

Curriculum Vitae

CURRENT POSITION

2007 - present
Pain Medicine
Riverside Radiology Associates, Inc.

2007 - present
Medical Director,  Pain Management
Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Ohio

EDUCATION

Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine
D.O., 1990

University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
B.A.,  1984

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

2001 
UCLA Medical Acupuncture Program

1998 - 1999 
Fellowship, Pain Management
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1991 - 1994 
Residency, Anesthesiology
Grandview Hospital, Dayton, Ohio

1990 - 1991 
Internship,
Grandview Hospital, Dayton, Ohio

BOARD CERTIFICATION

2005 American Osteopathic Board of Anesthesiology,  Pain Management

2000 American Osteopathic Board of Anesthesiology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2006 - 2007
Director of Acute Pain Management
The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio

2000 - 2006 
Private practice, pain management and anesthesiology
Sidney, Ohio

1999 - 2000
Pain Specialist/Anesthesiologist
Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, Ohio

1996 - 1997
Chairman, Anesthesiology Department
Wilson Memorial Hospital, Sidney, Ohio

1994 - 1998 
Anesthesiologist
Wilson Memorial Hospital, Sidney, Ohio

HONORS AND AWARDS

Sigma Sigma Phi National Osteopathic Honor Society

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Society of Intervention Pain Physicians
American Neuromodulation Society
American Society of Anesthesiologists
Ohio Society of Anesthesiology
American Academy of Pain Management
American Academy of Pain Medicine
American Osteopathic Association

RESEARCH

Akbar, Chen, Van Fossen, Wallace. "Increased vascular contractility sensitivity to serotonin in spontaneously hypertensive rats is linked with increased turnover of phosphoinositides." Life Sciences, 4/89.

Akbar, Chen, Wallace, Van Fossen. "Serotonin induced abnormal vessel contraction in spontaneously hypertensive rats is linked with increased phosphoinositide turnover." Journal FASB, Vol. #2 A1 786, 1988.

Participating investigator for the HA-IA CHESS trial sponsored by CENTOCOR.