Dr Shravani Durbhakula is a board certified interventional pain physician and anesthesiologist with nationally recognized media projects. She joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2017. In the past she has served as the Director of Pain Education and the Program Director of the Multi-disciplinary Pain Fellowship. Currently, she is the Course Director of the School of Medicine’s pain and opioids course, a novel mandatory curriculum for medical students that was featured on NPR due to its innovative value. She is also the creator and founder of PainRounds.org, a digital neuromodulation curriculum that fulfills a federally recognized need for better provider education on pain devices. It is used by medical trainees across the country to decrease complications and increase appropriate use. She is also the host for the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s podcast, Pain Matters. Her focus on education and public health policy was recognized by the British Medical Journal’s subsidiary, Regional Anesthesia Pain Medicine Journal, on International Women’s Day 2020.
Dr Shravani Durbhakula is the current recipient of a mentored NIH grant focusing on her pain education work, and has the honor of being fully-funded to pursue a Master of Public Health and a Master of Business Administration dual-degree program, at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University. She serves on leadership committees and boards for national pain societies. She looks forward to bridging medicine, public health and business in the future through a federal health policy role.