Hariharan Shankar, MBBS, has been selected as a 2024 Distinguished Service Award (DSA) recipient by the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA Pain Medicine). This award will be presented at the 23rd Annual Pain Medicine Meeting on November 23, 2024, in Las Vegas, NV.
The DSA celebrates individuals who have made broad contributions to regional anesthesiology and/or pain medicine through scholarly activity, clinical teaching, and service to ASRA Pain Medicine or the scientific and medical specialties practiced by ASRA Pain Medicine members.
“My passion is teaching and mentoring,” Dr. Shankar expressed.
Dr. Shankar is a professor of anesthesiology at Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI, and is board-certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine. Since 2009, ASRA Pain Medicine has had the privilege of Dr. Shankar’s mentorship and teachings at annual meetings and course workshops, impacting today's and tomorrow’s pain physicians.
ASRA Pain Medicine Past President, Samer Narouze, MD, PhD, confirms: “Dr. Shankar has been instrumental to the development of the resident and fellow section within ASRA [Pain Medicine]. He has been the faculty liaison to the board for many years.”
Throughout his residency and fellowship, he received awards from the Medical College of Wisconsin such as the Ernest Henschel Award for Outstanding Resident (2001, 2003). When promoted to assistant professor, he quickly became recognized for his teaching, receiving awards for Best Pain Staff (2006), and Teacher of the Year (2007, 2009). During his associate professor appointment at Medical College of Wisconsin, Dr. Shankar received the 2012 Outstanding Faculty Service Award, and as professor, the Lifetime Achievement in Pain Management Award from the Clement Zablocki VA Medical Center. In October 2022, Dr. Shankar was honored with the Patient Care Achievement Military Coin from the National Veterans Integrated Service Networks Primary Care Leads Annual Meeting.
Dr. Shankar is an active member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Wisconsin Society of Anesthesiologists, Indian Society of Anesthesiologists, Indian Society for the Study of Pain, and an integral member of ASRA Pain Medicine. He has worked relentlessly, sharing his expertise through his service on several ASRA Pain Medicine committees, teaching dozens of workshops and lectures, serving as faculty advisor for ASRA Pain Medicine residents and fellows, and training generations of physicians along the way.
Along with these sustained contributions to the study of pain medicine, Dr. Shankar adds, “I am most proud of becoming the Chair for the Pain Medicine Examination of the American Board of Anesthesiology next year, a two-year term. Currently, I am the Vice Chair.”
As he continues to make extraordinary contributions to the science, teaching, and practice of pain medicine worldwide, ASRA Pain Medicine awards him the deserving Distinguished Service Award.
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