Dahlia Townsend, MD
Assistant Professor
Anesthesia
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Medical Student Teaching Award, Leo M. Davidoff Society of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2020
• Resident Scholar, Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research, 2019
• Resident Practice Incentives Program Quality Improvement Project Winner, Montefiore Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology, 2019

Education & Training

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• Fellowship, Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Yale - New Haven Hospital 2021
• Residency, Anesthesiology Montefiore Medical Center 2020
• MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine 2016
• BS Biology, Neurobiology & Behavior Cornell University 2009

Interests

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• Regional anesthesiology
• peripheral nerve blocks
• acute pain management
• perioperative pain management
• underrepresented in medicine

Publications (4)

• Glucocorticoid-Enhanced Fascial Plane and Peripheral Nerve Blocks Versus Periarticular and Local Infiltration Analgesia in Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial.
  The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume 2026 Li J, Rubin LE, Krishnan R, Blessing M, Townsend D, Tung WS, Zhao X, Treggiari M, He Z, Dai F, Lin HM, Leslie MP, the Yale GENBA-THA study group
• Periarticular Injection Versus Peripheral Nerve Blockade in Bilateral Total Hip Arthroplasty.
  Cureus 2023 Sivco C, Townsend D, Leslie MP, Li J
• Lumbar Erector Spinae Plane Block for Total Hip Arthroplasty Comparing 24-Hour Opioid Requirements: A Randomized Controlled Study.
  Anesthesiology research and practice 2022 Townsend D, Siddique N, Kimura A, Chein Y, Kamara E, Pope J, Weiser M, Nair S, Muse I
• Solutions for management of angiotensin-converting enzyme–induced angioedema in a high risk population: a single center retrospective observational study
  Journal of Head & Neck Anesthesia 2019 Alexandra Bastien Dahlia Townsend Singh Nair Tracey Straker