Akash Goel

Dr. Akash Goel is a clinician-investigator, attending anesthesiologist and interventional pain medicine specialist at St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto. Dr. Goel received his medical degree from McMaster University. He then completed his anesthesiology training at the University of Toronto and pursued further fellowship training in interventional and multidisciplinary pain medicine at Stanford University. He also holds a Masters in Public Health from The Harvard School of Public Health. He currently employs systematic reviews, retrospective analyses of administrative databases, and Delphi analyses to study the perioperative management of substance use disorders. He has published international guidelines on the perioperative management of buprenorphine and cannabis, and is widely accepted as a continental expert on buprenorphine. His academic work has been featured in leading journals such as Anesthesiology, British Journal of Anesthesia, and The Canadian Journal of Anesthesia. His academic pain practice involves the application of novel and advanced pain therapeutics, including neuromodulation techniques such as spinal cord stimulation, dorsal root ganglion stimulation, and peripheral nerve stimulation. Dr. Goel also employs advanced techniques in the management of craniofacial pain, including fluoroscopic guided neuroablative therapies.