WADE GRINDLE, M.D.

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wade.grindle [at] yahoo.com

(818) 403-5329

Board Certifications

American Board of Anesthesiology

April 1991

Added Qualifications in Pain Management, American Board of Anesthesiology

October 1998, expired December 31st, 2008

Experience

Encino Hospital Medical Center, Encino, CA

Staff Anesthesiologist

Current

Providing diverse range of inpatient anesthesiology services including general, vascular, orthopedic, pediatric, urologic, head & neck, and gastroenterology subspecialties.

Sherman Oaks Hospital, Sherman Oaks, CA

Staff Anesthesiologist

Current

Providing inpatient anesthesiology services including orthopedic, urologic, vascular, general, head & neck, pediatric, and gastroenterology subspecialties; many emergent and ICU patients.

Solo Practice, Rancho Mirage, CA

Interventional Pain Management

1999 - 2005

Full spectrum of pain management services, including initial evaluation, diagnostic and therapeutic nerve blocks, medication management, percutaneous radiofrequency rhizotomy, cryoanalgesia, coblation nucleoplasty, intraspinal infusion pumps and spinal cord stimulators.

JFK Memorial Hospital, Indio, CA

Staff Anesthesiologist and Pain Management Physician

1999 - 2005

Provided outpatient and inpatient anesthesia services; also surgically implanted intraspinal infusion pumps and spinal cord stimulators.

Hope Square Surgical Center, Rancho Mirage, CA

Medical Director and Staff Anesthesiologist

1999 - 2003

Oversaw medical quality assurance, policies, and procedures for multi-specialty ambulatory surgical center with over 60 active staff physicians. Provided outpatient anesthesia services.

Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, CA

Pain Management Physician and Staff Anesthesiologist

1996 - 1999

Diverse anesthesia practice, including cardiac, obstetric, neurosurgical, general, orthopedic, & vascular surgery. Member of comprehensive interventional pain management team - for the last year before I left to go into solo practice, I was the only physician on staff at Eisenhower surgically implanting spinal cord stimulators and intraspinal morphine infusion pumps.

Medcenter One, Bismarck, North Dakota

Staff Anesthesiologist

1990 - 1996

Chairman of Department for four years at this busy referral center. Types of cases included trauma, cardiac, obstetric, pediatric, orthopedic, ENT, and neurosurgery. Also provided in-flight intensive care, in-helicopter transport of critically unstable patients from Montana, South Dakota, and western North Dakota.

University of North Dakota School of Medicine

Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery

1993 - 1996

Taught medical students during their clinical rotations through anesthesiology. Responsibilities included direct one-on-one instruction in the operating room, lectures to small groups of students, and preparing didactic content for presentation.

Education

UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Anesthesiology Advanced Specialty Training Fellowship 2009

Mercy Hospital, San Diego, CA

Anesthesiology Residency 1987-1990

Mercy Hospital, San Diego, CA 1986-1987

Transitional Internship

UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA

M.D. 1982-1986

UC Davis, Davis, CA

B.S. 1976-1981

Societies

American Society of Anesthesiologists

California Society of Anesthesiologists

Society for Airway Management

LANGUAGES

English, Spanish

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