Anesthesiology & Pain Management

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

Additional Information

Dr. Graff is board-certified in both anesthesiology & pain medicine. She is currently an associate professor and serves as the vice chair of clinical operations at Thomas Jefferson University, Sidney Kimmel College of Medicine, in Philadelphia, PA. Prior to this role, she was at the at the Ivy League institution, the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine from 2016 - 2025, where she served as the division chief and fellowship program director of regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine and the perioperative pain management lead for the University of Pennsylvania Health System's Opioid Task Force, for all seven hospitals under the health system. Dr. Graff supervises and teaches fellow physicians, resident physicians, medical students, and nurse anesthetists daily. Dr. Graff also holds a faculty position and is a fellow within the national organization, American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA) & Pain Medicine. She also holds a membership with the national organizations, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and the Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors (AACD). She has substantial experience in public speaking and has been invited to lecture regionally, nationally, and internationally on topics surrounding anesthesiology, regional anesthesiology, acute and chronic pain medicine. Dr. Graff is highly clinically active, practicing general anesthesiology, regional anesthesiology, and perioperative pain management. Her anesthesia clinical expertise spans a broad range including general anesthesia, conscious sedation, airway emergencies, responding to codes, multimodal analgesia use, perioperative and inpatient opioid management, spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, peripheral nerve blocks, nerve block catheters, regional anesthetics, and anesthetics for a multitude of surgeries including orthopedics, spine, robotic surgery, urology, neurosurgery, trauma, ophthalmology, ENT, general surgery, obstetrics, and colorectal surgery. Her pain medicine clinical expertise spans a broad range of managements for various chronic pain conditions including chronic pain syndromes, complex regional pain syndrome, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, musculoskeletal pain, spine related pain, opioid management, non-opioid therapies, and various interventional pain management procedures utilizing fluoroscopy and ultrasound guidance such as epidural steroid injections, trigger point injections, radiofrequency ablations, medial branch blocks, and joint injections. She is knowledgeable in anesthesia billing, pain medicine practice billing, and regional anesthesia & acute pain service billing and medical fraud and criminal cases.