Dr. Mehran Kouchek

Experience

Career & Training

Academic appointments, professional leadership, qualifications, and international clinical training spanning over three decades.

Career, Training & Conference Locations

  • Tehran, IranShahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
  • Paris, FranceBroussais · Pitié-Salpêtrière · Krémlin-Bicêtre · Ambroise Paré · Paul Brousse · Jouvenet
  • Lyon, FranceLouis Pradel Hospital
  • Maastricht, NetherlandsWorld Institute of Pain — FIPP
  • Cleveland, Ohio, USACleveland Clinic — Pain Management
  • Texas, USAGrace Clinic — Interventional Pain & Epiduroscopy

Academic

Academic & Clinical Appointments

Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Interventional Pain Medicine

Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (Beheshti UMS)

Imam Hossein Hospital · Tehran, Iran

Leadership

Professional Leadership & Current Positions

  • President

    World Institute of Pain (WIP) – Iran Section

    2015–2017

  • FIPP Examiner

    World Institute of Pain (WIP)

    Since June 2017

  • Member, Educational Committee

    World Institute of Pain (WIP)

    Since 2017

Qualifications

Qualifications & Certifications

  • FIPP – Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice

    World Institute of Pain (WIP), Maastricht, The Netherlands

    2013

  • AFSA – Certificate of Advanced Specialized Training

    René Descartes University, Paris, France — validated in Iran as “ICU fellowship”

    1999

  • Specialty in Anesthesiology

    Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

    1989

Training

International Clinical Training

  1. 1993

    Clinical Practice in Cardiac Anesthesia

    Broussais Hospital, Paris, France (Prof. Alain Carpentier – Prof. Deloche)

  2. 1994

    Clinical Practice in Cardiac Anesthesia

    Pitié–Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France (Prof. Gandjbakhch)

  3. 1998–99

    Resident in Anesthesiology

    Krémlin-Bicêtre Hospital, Paris, France

  4. 1999

    Pain Clinic Training Course

    Ambroise Paré Hospital, Boulogne, Paris, France

  5. 1999

    Intensive Course in Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation

    Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, Paris, France

  6. 1999

    Intensive Course in Cardiac Anesthesia and Open-Heart ICU

    Louis Pradel Hospital, Lyon, France

  7. 1999

    Advanced Regional Anesthesia Techniques

    Jouvenet Orthopedic Center, Paris, France (Prof. Alain Gilbert)

  8. 2011

    Course in Interventional Pain Practice

    Department of Pain Management, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA

  9. 2014

    Course of Interventional Pain and Epiduroscopy

    Grace Clinic, Texas, USA (Prof. Gabor Racz, Prof. Miles Day, Prof. James Heavner)