Steven J. Weisman, MD 

Anesthesiology and Pediatrics

Title: Medical director, Pain Management, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; professor, Anesthesiology and Pediatrics; Jane B. Pettit Chair in Pain Management, Medical College of Wisconsin. 

Education: Medical degree, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1978; pediatric residency, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1980; anesthesiology residency, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 1994; clinical fellowship, American Cancer Society, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1982; pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1984.

Certification(s): American Board of Pediatrics, 1982; American Board of Pediatrics: Hematology/Oncology, 1984; American Board of Anesthesiology, 1996; Pediatric Advanced Life Support, 1999.

Honors: Alpha Omega Alpha, Jane B. Pettit Chair in Pain Management.

Research interests: Acute pain in pediatrics, chronic pain in pediatrics.

Representative publications:

• Czarnecki ML, Jandrisevitis MD, Theiler SC, Huth MM, Weisman SJ. Controlled Release Oxycodone for the Management of Pediatric Postoperative Pain. Journal of Pain Symptom Management 2004; 27:379-386.
• Finkel JC, Finley A, Greco C, Weisman SJ, Zeltzer L. Transdermal Fentanyl in the Management of Children with Chronic Severe Pain: Results from an International Study. Cancer 2005; 104: 2847-2857.
• Berens RJ, Meyer MT, Mikhailov TA, Colpaert, KD, Czarnecki ML, Ghanayem NS, Hoffman GM, Soetenga DJ, Nelson TJ, Weisman SJ. A Prospective Evaluation of Opioid Weaning in Tolerant Pediatric Critical Care Patients. Anesthesiology and Analgesia 2006; 102: 1045-1050.
• Czarnecki ML, Garwood MM, Weisman SJ. Advanced Practice Nurse-Directed Telephone Management of Acute Pain Following Pediatric Spinal Fusion Surgery. Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing 2007; 12: 159-169.
• Hainsworth KR, Davies WH, Khan KA, Weisman SJ. Development and Preliminary Validation of the Child Activity Limitations Questionnaire: Flexible and Efficient Assessment of Pain-Related Functional Disability. Journal Pain, 2007; 8:746-752.
• Sato AF, Hainsworth KR, Khan KA, Ladwig RL, Weisman SJ, Davies WH. School Absenteeism in Pediatric Chronic Pain: Identifying Lessons Learned from the General School Absenteeism Literature. Children's Healthcare 2007; 36: 355-372.

Current grants: 

• Outcomes and Parent Satisfaction Associated with Parent/Nurse Controlled Analgesia in Pediatric Patients with Developmental Delay, Mayday Fund. Principal investigator.

Contact information: Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Jane B. Pettit Pain and Palliative Care Center, PO Box 1997, MS 792, Milwaukee, WI 53226. Phone: (414) 266-2775. Fax: (414) 266-1761.