LICENSURES

Licensed in Kentucky and Ohio

BOARD CERTIFICATIONS

Board Certified, American Board of Anesthesiology

Board Certified, Pain Management

EDUCATION

Medical school-University of Louisville School of medicine, Louisville, KY

Fellowship- Cleveland Clinic Foundation: Division of Anesthesiology and Pain Management. Cleveland, OH 2008-2009

Residency- Cleveland Clinic Foundation:  Division of Anesthesiology and Pain Management. Cleveland, OH 2005-2008

Internship- Cleveland Clinic Foundation:  Division of Anesthesiology and Pain Management. Cleveland, OH 2004-2005

RESEARCH

“Treatment of Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) with Intrathecal Ziconotide (Prialt)” Cleveland Clinic Foundation  2009

“Supraventricular Tachycardia in Children with Palpitations.” University of Louisville School of Medicine 2002-04

“Chest Pains in over 300 Pediatric Patients.” University of Louisville School of Medicine 2002-03

“Polymorphism Presentations in the P4501A1 Gene and its Effects on Cigarette Smokers.”  University of

Kentucky 1997-98

PUBLICATIONS

Walls, M., Barsoum, S.  Poster Presentation OSA, ASA 2006.  “Combined Spinal-Epidural in a Laboring Parturient with Heart Failure:  A Case Report” 2006

Villafane, J., Walls, M., “Supraventricular Tachycardia in Children with Palpitations.” 2003

Published in Clinical Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology. Presented at the XVIII World Congress of Cardiology in Hong Kong 2002 02/2003 p911-914.

Villafane, J., Walls, M. “Chest Pains in over 300 Pediatric Patients” Accepted for presentation at the XIX InterAmerican Congress of Cardiology in Toronto 10/2003

Walls, M. Poster Presentation.  “Polymorphism Presentations in the P450 1A1 Gene and its effects on Cigarette Smokers” 08/1998

AWARDS & HONORS

Chief Pain Fellow 2008

Obstetric Anesthesia Resident of the Year 2007

Special recognition in Perioperative Anesthesia 2006, Critical Care Medicine 2007

Biochemistry, Clinical Practice Sciences, Histology, Anatomy, Embryology, Clinical Internal Medicine, Clinical

Anesthesia I&II, Diagnostic Radiology

U.K. Dean’s List- fall ’94, fall ’96, fall’97, spring ’98, fall ’98, spring ‘99

AFFILIATIONS

American Pain Society

American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management

American Society of Anesthesiology

Ohio Society of Anesthesiology

American Medical Association