Dr. Edward Mariano, co-chair of ASA’s Acute Pain Taskforce, discusses ASA’s new guideline on acute postoperative pain management with Dr. Adam Striker. Find out why this new guideline is needed, who the recommendations are for, what’s changed, and more. Recorded February 2026.
Edward R. Mariano, MD, MAS, FASA, FASRA, is a professor and vice chair in the department of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and is chief of anesthesiology at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. He has published over 300 articles and is a recipient of the John D. Chase Award for Physician Executives Excellence, Distinguished Service Awards from ASRA Pain Medicine and ESRA Spain, and Distinguished Educator in Anesthesiology Award from the American Society of Anesthesiology and the Society for Education in Anesthesia. He has held leadership positions in multiple professional organizations: president of the California Society of Anesthesiologists; ASRA Pain Medicine board of directors; council member of the Association of Anesthesiology Subspecialty Program Directors; and currently the section chair for Education and Research and Current Procedural Terminology Advisor for the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). He has co-chaired both of ASA's Pain Summits, represents ASA in the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Combatting Substance Use and Opioid Crises, and currently serves as co-chair of the ASA Acute Pain Guidelines Task Force.
Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is the past chair of the ASA’s Committee on Communications and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is Professor of Anesthesiology at Medical College of Wisconsin, a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at Children’s Wisconsin and serves as Director of Clinical Operations for pediatric anesthesiology at Children's Wisconsin. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Purdue University and his medical degree from Indiana University. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Northwestern University.
Date of last update: March 9, 2026