Veena Graff, MD

Anesthesiology, Pain Management

4.8 with 177 ratings

Sees patients age 12 and up

Veena Graff, MD

Anesthesiology, Pain Management

4.8 with 177 ratings

Sees patients age 12 and up

Division Chief of Regional Anesthesiology & Acute Pain Medicine
Program Director of Regional Anesthesiology & Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship
Perioperative Pain Management Lead, Penn Medicine Opioid Task Force
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Dr. Graff is a Penn Medicine physician.

Call 800-789-7366 Request Appointment

Nerve Block
Pain Management
Peripheral Nerve Block

Programs and Centers

Penn Medicine's programs and centers combine doctors from many disciplines to coordinate care from start to finish. Dr. Graff is part of these programs:

Board Certification

Anesthesiology - Pain Medicine, 2017
Anesthesiology, 2016

Education and Training

Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine
Residency: University of Vermont Medical Center
Fellowship: University of Vermont Medical Center

Primary Location

Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care Penn Presbyterian

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
223 Wright-Saunders
51 N. 39th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

A facility of Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

Map Call 800-789-7366

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Penn Pain Medicine Center Valley Forge

Penn Medicine Valley Forge
1001 Chesterbrook Boulevard
Berwyn, PA 19312

Map Call 215-893-7246

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Penn Pain Medicine Center Radnor

Penn Medicine Radnor
Floor 3, South
145 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087

A facility of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Map Call 610-902-4865

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Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care HUP

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
6 Dulles
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

A facility of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Map Call 800-789-7366

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Penn Medicine Hospital Privileges

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.

Overall Ratings

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Aetna
Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
Capital Blue Cross/Capital Advantage Insurance Company
Centivo
Cigna Healthcare
Cigna Healthcare
Claim Watcher (Homestead/Index)
Clover Health
Devoted Health Plan
Geisinger Health Plan
Geisinger Health Plan
Global Medical Management
HealthAmerica / HealthAssurance, a Coventry Plan
Highmark Blue Shield
Highmark Blue Shield
Highmark Wholecare (fka Gateway Health)
Horizon BC/BS of NJ
Humana Medicare
Humana Military (Tricare/Health Net Federal Services)
Imagine Health (Imagine Health 360)
Independence Blue Cross (IBC)

Jefferson Health Plans/Health Partners
Jefferson Health Plans/Health Partners (Includes CHIP)
Keystone First Health Plan
Keystone First Health Plan
Medicaid - New Jersey
Medicaid - Pennsylvania
Medicare - Pennsylvania
Oscar Health Plan of PA
Oxford Health Plan
PA Health & Wellness
Perennial Advantage
Preferred Health Care/Eliance
Provider Partners Health Plan
Qualcare
Rail Road Medicare/Palmetto GBA
UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of PA
UPMC Health Plan
US Family Health Plan
VA Insurance (Veteran's CCN)

Description of Research Expertise

Music Medicine in the Perioperative Setting
Decision Making in Acute & Chronic Pain Medicine
Opioid Free and Multimodal Anesthetics

Selected Publications

Polina Ferd MD, Blaze Kelly MD, Arthur Thomas MD, Allen Yang MD, Taras Grosh MD, Veena Graff MD: Comparing Rebound Pain after Adductor Canal Block with 0.2% Ropivacaine vs 0.5% Bupivacaine in Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients 50th Annual Regional Anesthesiology & Acute Pain Medicine Meeting, Orlando, FL : 2025.

Veena Graff MD, Stephanie Cheng MD.: Music and Medicine - HSS Presents Podcast HSS Presents : 2025.

Mital Lavani DO, Chase Jennings MD, Veena Graff MD: Comprehensive Perioperative Pain Management: From Preoperative Optimization to Transitional Postoperative Care Comprehensive Perioperative Pain Management : 2025.

Mark D Neuman, Glyn Elwyn, Veena Graff, Viktoria Schmitz, Mary C Politi: My anesthesia Choice-HF: development and preliminary testing of a tool to facilitate conversations about anesthesia for hip fracture surgery BMC Anesthesiology : 2024.

Osemeke Edobor MD, Veena Graff MD, Taras Grosh MD: Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity Anesthesiology: A Problem-Based Learning Approach : 2023.

Dan Maloney MD, Vivian Wung MD, Veena Graff MD: Removing Gabapentinoids from ERAS Protocol for Total Knee & Hip Arthroplasty may lead to a reduction in hypotensive episodes post-operatively 48th Annual Regional Anesthesiology & Acute Pain Medicine Meeting, Hollywood, FL : 2023.

Kelsey R. Lawrence, DO, MBS, Gautam Sharma, MD, and Veena Graff, MD, MS: The Pain Medicine Paradox: Why Women Avoid this Field, and What Can be Done About It ASRA Pain Medicine News : 2022.

Grosh, Taras; Kim, James; Graff, Veena; Mariano, Edward; Elkassabany, Nabil: Is there a correlation between Altmetric Attention Scores and citation count in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine journal articles? Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 47 (10): 2022.

Veena Graff, Justin T Clapp, Sarah J Heins, Jamison J Chung, Madhavi Muralidharan, Lee A Fleisher, Nabil M Elkassabany: Patient Involvement in Anesthesia Decision-making: A Qualitative Study of Knee Arthroplasty Anesthesiology 135 (1): 111-121,2021.

Carlson, Caitlin: "Can This Music Improve Your Health" Nike : 2021.

Academic Contact Information

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
51 N. 39th Street 223 Wright-Saunders
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-662-8244
Patient appointments: 800-789-7366

American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), National
American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA), National