Meet Anesthesiologist Roberta Hines, MD

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Roberta Hines, MD, chair of Yale Medicine Anesthesiology, is an anesthesiologist and critical care physician. She has special training in cardiac anesthesia and in treating patients in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU). As chair of anesthesiology, Dr. Hines oversees 120 faculty members who provide care for almost 70,000 children and adults a year at every surgical checkpoint, providing anesthesia and pain management before, during and after surgery. She oversees pain management for women in labor, an integrative medicine pain clinic for Smilow Cancer Hospital and a pre-screening clinic that helps patients get healthier for surgery. Finding better techniques to control pain and reduce opioid dependence is of particular importance, she says. Yale Medicine anesthesiologists are already using such techniques as long-acting nerve analgesics and local anesthetics to better control pain and reduce the amount of opioids a patient will need.