Medical Director,
Integrated Pain Solutions
Member of the Board of Directors, Cancer Pain Research Consortium
Gladstone C. McDowell II, MD attended medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He completed Residency in Anesthesiology at the University of Colorado in Denver. Dr. McDowell completed a Urologic Oncology Fellowship at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He performed a Pain Management Fellowship in the Department of Anesthesiology at the Ohio State Pain Control Center.
Dr. McDowell is the Former Medical Director of Grant Pain Management Center and Director of Pain Services for Grant Medical Center, Ohio Health. He is on the Board of the Texas Medical Institute of Technology, Community Emergency Health Initiative, and the Ohio Clinical Advisory Board of the National Multiple Sclerosis Association. Dr. McDowell has held faculty appointments at the National Patient Safety Congress meetings and National Institute for Heatlhcare Fraud. He has been the Primary Pain Consultant for Careleaders and TMIT. He recently taught at the FBI Health Care Fraud Managers Meeting and served on the 2007 and 2011 International Polyanalgesic Consensus Panel.
Dr. McDowell is Certified as a Patient Safety Officer by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Pain Management, American Society of Regional Anesthesia, and North American Neuromodulation Society.
Dr. McDowell’s research is published in peer-reviewed medical journals. He has authored book chapters regarding Urology and Anesthesiology.
Committed to serving others, Dr. McDowell volunteered free surgery and training other physicians, plus equipment donations at Kingston Public Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica in 2007 and 2010.
Research Interest
Dr. McDowell’s research is published in peer-reviewed medical journals. He has authored book chapters regarding Urology and Anesthesiology.
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Awards
- 1st Place, Abstract: Intrathecal Therapies, North American Neuromodulation Society, 2008
- RA Award, MD Anderson Surgical Fellow
- American Cancer Society Fellowship Award
- 3rd Place, American College of Surgeons, Ohio Division, Essay Contest
- 2nd Place, University Cancer Foundation Fellowship Award Competition
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Select Publications
- Deer, T., Krames, E. S., Hassenbusch, S. J., Burton, A., Caraway, D., Dupen, S., … & Levy, R. (2007). Polyanalgesic consensus conference 2007: recommendations for the management of pain by intrathecal (intraspinal) drug delivery: report of an interdisciplinary expert panel. Neuromodulation: Technology at the neural interface, 10(4), 300-328.
- Deer, T. R., Mekhail, N., Provenzano, D., Pope, J., Krames, E., Leong, M., … & Buvanendran, A. (2014). The Appropriate Use of Neurostimulation of the Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nervous System for the Treatment of Chronic Pain and Ischemic Diseases: The Neuromodulation Appropriateness Consensus Committee. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, 17(6), 515-550.
- McDowell II, G. C., Johnson, J. W., Tenney, D. M., & Johnson, D. E. (1990). Pelvic lymphadenectomy for staging clinically localized prostate cancer Indications, Complications, and Results in 217 Cases. Urology, 35(6), 476-482.