Michael Schaefer

Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow and Campus Mitte, Germany

University positions:

6/88 ‑  8/92 Residency, Ludwig‑Maximilians‑University Munich, Dep. of

                    Anesthesiology, Germany

8/92 ‑12/96 Postdoc Fellow of the Dep. of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The

                    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

8/92 ‑12/96 Guest Scientist, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse,

                    Division of Intramural Research, Baltimore, USA

3/97 ‑12/97 Instructor, Ludwig‑Maximilians‑University Munich, Dep. of

                    Anesthesiology, Germany

12/97‑ 6/98 Staff Anesthesiologist, Free University Berlin, Dep. of Anesthesiology and

                    Intensive Care Medicine, Germany

6/98 – 1/01  Senior Staff Anesthesiologist, Free University Berlin, Dep. of Anesthesiology and

                    Intensive Care Medicine, Germany

1/01 - 1/02  Associate Professor, Free University Berlin, Dep. of Anesthesiology and

                    Intensive Care Medicine, Germany

1/02 – now  Full Professor, Charité University Berlin, Dep. of Anesthesiology and

                    Intensive Care Medicine, Germany

Awards

-  Scientific Directors Award, Division of Intramural Research/NIDA/NIH; 12/1994

-  NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence, NIDA/NIH; 3/1996

-  National Institute on Drug Abuse / NIH, Young Investigator Award for the outstanding

    research report of 1996, 5/1996

-  Fresenius-Research Grant of German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

    Medicine, 2/1998.

-  Frontiers in Anesthesia Research Award, International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS),

    7/1999

-  Award of the German Chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP),

    Hamburg, 10/2000

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Anesthesiology & Pain Management > Pain Management: Acute Clinical (since 12 February 2008)

All recent recommendations

• 6.5
  No evidence for the development of acute tolerance to analgesic, respiratory depressant and sedative opioid effects in humans.
  Recommended by Dhanesh Gupta, Anne Lynn, Michael Schaefer
  
• 6.0
  Do surgical patients benefit from perioperative gabapentin/pregabalin? A systematic review of efficacy and safety.
  Recommended by Michael Schaefer
  
• 6.5
  Methylnaltrexone for opioid-induced constipation in advanced illness.
  Recommended by Peter Conzen with Daniel Chappell, Mellar Davis, Michael Schaefer
  
• 3.0
  A118G single nucleotide polymorphism of human mu-opioid receptor gene influences pain perception and patient-controlled intravenous morphine consumption after intrathecal morphine for postcesarean analgesia.
  Recommended by Michael Schaefer
  
• 3.4
  Antiinflammatory effect of peripheral nerve blocks after knee surgery: clinical and biologic evaluation.
  Recommended by Patricia Lavand'homme, Alain Borgeat, Michael Schaefer, Joel Katz with Nicole Carmichael
  
• 4.8
  A simple clinical maneuver to reduce laparoscopy-induced shoulder pain: a randomized controlled trial.
  Recommended by Jill Mhyre, Michael Schaefer
  
• 6.0
  A randomised double blind trial of the effect of pre-emptive epidural ketamine on persistent pain after lower limb amputation.
  Recommended by Michael Schaefer
  
• 11.2
  Inhibition of nociceptors by TRPV1-mediated entry of impermeant sodium channel blockers.
  Recommended by Misha Perouansky, Nanna Finnerup, Hugh Hemmings, Emery Brown, Helge Eilers, David Archer, Cheryl Stucky with Daniel Vilceanu, Michael Schaefer