Thiru M. Annaswamy, MD, MA

Staff Physician and Section Chief
VA North Texas Health Care System and UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Dr. Thiru Annaswamy is a Professor with the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) at the UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSWMC) and a full-time staff physician and section chief in the PM&R Service at the VA North Texas Health Care System/Dallas VA Medical Center. He has been on faculty at UTSWMC since 1999. He received his medical degree at Mysore Medical College, Mysore, India in 1992 and Master’s degree in Kinesiology, motor control and biomechanics from the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas in 1994. He received his post-graduate medical training in PM&R at Harvard Medical School/Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, MA in 1999.
His clinical expertise and research interests are in the management of spine & musculoskeletal disorders, diseases of the muscles & nerves and clinical outcomes research. He is board certified in PM&R, Pain Medicine, Electrodiagnostic Medicine and Neuromuscular Medicine. His research interests also include electrophysiological and musculoskeletal research and clinical outcomes research, virtual reality based medical simulation, virtual reality and technology applications in rehabilitation and gait and movement analysis.
His honors include Best Teaching Attending of the Year awards, Chief Resident, Best Paper award, Best Resident Research award, and New Investigator Award. He has presented in national conferences, university grand rounds, and other local & regional institutions. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and has book-chapter author credits as well. He has been invited to participate (and has chaired a few such committees) on several committees, advisory panels, work groups and task forces for professional societies and national organizations. He has also appeared on the internet, TV, news media and Radio.

Presentation(s):

• IC2A: Pre-Exam - NO pre-recorded content. Handout Only (Emerging Concepts and Evidence Basis Behind Novel Approaches to Managing Chronic Spinal Pain) (853523)

  Monday, October 19, 2020
  9:00 AM – 10:00 AM EST

• IC2A: Emerging Concepts in Evaluation and Management of Chronic Spinal Pain (Emerging Concepts and Evidence Basis Behind Novel Approaches to Managing Chronic Spinal Pain) (853523)

  Monday, October 19, 2020
  10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST

• IC2A: Approach to Patients with Chronic Spinal Pain with Peripheral Desensitization (Emerging Concepts and Evidence Basis Behind Novel Approaches to Managing Chronic Spinal Pain) (853523)

  Monday, October 19, 2020
  2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST

• IC2A: Basic Spinal Pain Treatments (Emerging Concepts and Evidence Basis Behind Novel Approaches to Managing Chronic Spinal Pain) (853523)

  Monday, October 19, 2020
  3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EST

• IC2B: LIVE DISCUSSION: Chronic Spinal Pain management: Case Discussions (Emerging Concepts and Evidence Basis Behind Novel Approaches to Managing Chronic Spinal Pain) (853523)

  Tuesday, October 20, 2020
  10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST

• IC2B: Post-Test (Emerging Concepts and Evidence Basis Behind Novel Approaches to Managing Chronic Spinal Pain) (853523)

  Tuesday, October 20, 2020
  3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST

• IC2B: Conclusions + Q&A (Emerging Concepts and Evidence Basis Behind Novel Approaches to Managing Chronic Spinal Pain) (853523)

  Tuesday, October 20, 2020
  4:00 PM – 4:30 PM EST

• Pain Rehabilitation Networking Group (11112)

  Wednesday, October 21, 2020
  6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST

• Pain Rehabilitation Networking Group (11116)

  Thursday, October 22, 2020
  8:45 AM – 9:45 AM EST

• Pain Rehabilitation Networking Group (11120)

  Thursday, October 22, 2020
  6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST

• Pain Rehabilitation Networking Group (11122)

  Friday, October 23, 2020
  8:45 AM – 9:45 AM EST