Dr. Samer Narouze is the Chairman of the Center for Pain Medicine at Western Reserve Hospital in Ohio and a leading expert in headaches and pain medicine. He serves as an editor and reviewer for multiple specialty journals and is a clinical professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at OUCOM and of Neurological Surgery at OSU.

He completed his Anesthesiology residency (2000) and Pain Medicine fellowship (2001) at the Cleveland Clinic, and earned a PhD in cervicogenic headaches from Maastricht University in 2012. As Program Director of the Cleveland Clinic Pain Medicine Fellowship, he was honored as a “Master Educator,” and also received the Cleveland Clinic “Innovator Award” for advancing minimally invasive chronic headache treatments.

Dr. Narouze is board-certified in pain medicine, neurology headache medicine, interventional pain management, and anesthesiology. He founded the American Interventional Headache Society (AIHS), serves on the ASRA board of directors, and is active in several national and international pain organizations. A frequent national and international speaker, he pioneered ultrasound-guided nerve blocks for headache and pain.

He has authored over 200 publications and several books, including his bestselling “Atlas of Ultrasound-Guided Procedures in Interventional Pain Management” (Springer, 2012) and the first comprehensive text on interventional headache management (2014).