Kanupriya Kumar, MD
Dr. Kanupriya Kumar is a board certified anesthesiologist at Hospital for Special Surgery. Previously, she organized and was director of the regional anesthesia program at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She completed her residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a regional anesthesia fellowship at HSS. Dr. Kumar has taught ultrasound-guided nerve blocks to residents, fellows, and other board certified anesthesiologists at local and national meetings. She streamlined the regional anesthesia workflow at Johns Hopkins, creating efficiencies to decrease patient waiting time and discomfort.
Currently, Dr. Kumar is site director at the HSS Ambulatory Surgery Center. She also actively contributes to the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Management’s Clinical Research Division, investigating multimodal analgesia techniques for orthopedic patients.
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Appointments
Assistant Attending Anesthesiologist, Hospital for Special Surgery
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College
Specialty
Procedures
General anesthesia, Regional anesthesia
Languages
English
Insurance Information
Aetna
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO HMO POS
Blue Cross Blue Shield Pathway
Blue Cross Blue Shield Pathway Enhanced
Cigna
Connecticare
Emblem Selectcare
HIP
Medicare
Oxford
Oxford Medicare
United Healthcare
United Healthcare Compass
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Education
Internship
Residency
Fellowship
Certification
Anesthesiology, 2009
State Licensure
Maryland, New York
Patient Education by Dr. Kumar on HSS.edu
Selected Publications
Kumar K, Gulotta LV, Dines JS, Allen AA, Cheng J, Fields KG, YaDeau JT, Wu CL. (2017.) Unused Opioid Pills After Outpatient Shoulder Surgeries Given Current Perioperative Prescribing Habits. The American Journal of Sports Medicine (45)3; 636-641.
Kumar K, Kirksey MA, Duong S, Wu CL. (2017.) A Review of Opioid-Sparing Modalities in Perioperative Pain Management: Methods to Decrease Opioid Use Postoperatively. Anesthesia & Analgesia (125)5; 1749-1760.
Gupta A, Kumar K, Roberts MM, Sanders AE, Jones MT, Levine DS, O’Malley MJ, Drakos MC, Elliott AJ, Deland JT, Ellis SJ. (2017.) Pain Management After Outpatient Foot and Ankle Surgery. Foot & Ankle International; 1071100717738495.
For more publications, please see the PubMed listing.