Richard Vaglienti, MD, MBA

Pain Management, Clinical Faculty

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Department:

Anesthesiology

Classification:

Clinical Faculty

Associate Professor

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Department:

Department of Neuroscience

Classification:

Faculty

• MD, WVU School of Medicine

Original Published Peer-Reviewed Articles

D.W. McNeil, S.G. Kennedy, C.L. Randal1, S.H. Addicks, C.D. Wright, K.G. Hursey, Vaglienti, R. M. “Fear of Pain Questionnaire-9: Brief assessment of pain-related fear and anxiety”,[accessed Oct 25 2017].  European Journal of Pain, accepted for publication May 2017 Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318791581_Fear_of_Pain_Questionnaire-9_Brief_assessment_of_pain-related_fear_and_anxiety

Original Peer-Reviewed Articles In Press

Turner MD, PhD, Ryan, Vaglienti MD, Richard M. (2016) IRB# 1601988989, Effect of Intrathecal Morphine Trial Paradigm on Intrathecal Morphine Pump Outcomes. Anticipated submission 2017 Journal of Neuromodulation.

Abstracts Presented

Sorrell, J.T., McNeil, D.W., Vowles, K.E., Broadman, L.M., Hursey, K.G., Huber, S.J., Vaglienti, R.M., Kennedy, S. (2000). Avoidance and escape behavior in laboratory-based pain induction in chronic pain patients. Proceedings of the West Virginia Section,  American Association for Dental Research, Seventh Annual Research Day, 7.

Sorrell, J.T., McNeil, D.W., Vowles, K.E., Broadman, L.M., Hursey, K.G., Huber, S.J., Vaglienti, R.M., Kennedy, S. (2000). Effects of fear and pressure stimulation intensity on pain responding in chronic pain patients.  Proceedings of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, 22.

Awards and Honors

Best Doctors in America - 2001-2015

Best Clinician: Ambulatory Surgery, Press-Ganey - 2014

Bravo Award Good to Great, WVU Healthcare -  2012-2013

Pain Management High Performance Team Award, WVU Hospitals - 2001, 2000

Institutional Committees

Member -  WVU Pain Project Echo Hub  - April 2017 - Present

Member -  WVU Interdisciplinary Spine Center - 2004- Present

Member -  WVU Palliative Care Committee - 1999-2004

Member - (Vice Chair candidate) WVU Institutional Review Board - June 2015- Present

Member  - WVU Expert Panel on Opioid Use - July 2015- Present

Member -  WVU Pain Reorganization Working Group - November 2015- Present

Member -  WVU Addiction Task Force - January 2016- Present

State Committees

Councilor -  West Virginia State Medical Society - 1995- Present

National Committees

Member - Steering Committee: Treatment of Peripheral Vascular Disease with Spinal Cord Stimulation Medtronic: Neurological Division - 2001- Present

Member - American Board of Pain Medicine Exam Council - 2014- Present

 

Dr. Richard Vaglienti is an Anesthesiologist within the School of Medicine of West Virginia University who specializes in Chronic Pain Management and Fellowship Program.  Dr. Vaglienti earned his Doctor of Medicine from West Virginia University School of Medicine in 1986 prior to completing an anesthesiology residency from 1986-1990 at WVU.   He was appointed to the faculty of the Anesthesiology Department  in 1997 as an Assistant Professor.  He earned his certification with the American Board of Anesthesiologists in1991.  In September 1994, he earned a certificate in Special Qualifications in Pain Management from the American Board of Anesthesiology.   In July of 2004, Dr. Vaglienti received a dual appointment with the Department of Neurosurgery.  In 2017, Dr. Vaglienti was promoted to Associate Professor.  Dr. Vaglienti is the Chronic Pain Rotation Director for both residents of various specialties and medical students. He provides regular neurosurgery, psychiatry and anesthesiology didactic lectures as assigned.  Dr Vaglienti has been an invited lecturer on numerous occasions at national, regional and university levels.   Dr. Vaglienti also helped develop the opioid prescribing curriculum that is required for WV state licensure renewal.  Dr. Vaglienti currently serves as an Associate Professor.

Professional Societies

International Spinal Injection Society - >20 years

American Society of Anesthesiology - 1982- Present

American Academy of Pain Medicine - 1990-Present

American College of Sports Medicine - 2012-Present

American Society of Intervention Pain Physicians - 2016-resent

West Virginia Medical Society - 1986- Present

West Virginia State Society of Anesthesiologists - 1986-Present

 

 

Medical Specialties

• Anesthesiology
• Pain Management

Board Certifications

• Anesthesiology, American Board of Anesthesiology

Special Training

• Residency, Anesthesiology
  West Virginia University
• Fellowship, Cardiac anesthesiology/Chronic pain management
  West Virginia University