Professor Dr. Michael Bautista

Biography

Michael Bautista completed his M.D. at Memorial University in 1981 and pursued an internship at Dalhousie University. He began his residency in Anesthesia at Memorial in 1982. In 1986, he joined the Department of Anesthesia at Grace Hospital in St. John's, where he remained until the hospital's closure in 2000, after which he moved to the Department of Anesthesia at St. Clare's Mercy Hospital. Dr. Bautista practices obstetric anesthesia at the Janeway Hospital site and held a part-time faculty position from 1987 to 2008, transitioning to a full-time role at the Faculty of Medicine. He is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching within the Discipline of Anesthesia and is also the resident research director in the same discipline. His areas of interest include regional anesthesia and pain management, particularly chronic pain.

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