Overview

The Anesthesiology Systematic Review Laboratory is a clinical research lab founded by W. Michael Hooten, M.D., a pain medicine specialist.

Our lab addresses clinically relevant questions by performing high-impact systematic reviews and meta-analyses, with a focus on pain, anesthesiology and related subspecialty areas. Our recent work includes analyses related to smoking in adults with spinal cord stimulators, opioid prescriptions, joint injections, postamputation pain and spinal cord injury.

Central to our core mission is cutting across institutional boundaries to build a network of collaborators. We engage medical students, residents, fellows and faculty members in the process of conducting our high-impact systematic reviews and meta-analyses. This collaborative approach builds knowledge about the methodology of performing systematic reviews and yields high-quality manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals.

The Hooten Lab provides a unique opportunity for medical students, residents and fellows to participate in high-impact research that is efficient and time limited and that doesn't require submission of protocols to an institutional review board. This is important because working with our lab ensures that projects will be completed during the training period.

About Dr. Hooten

Dr. Hooten, the principal investigator, is an anesthesiologist with training in psychiatry, internal medicine and pain medicine. He is a professor of anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, Minnesota. His ongoing clinical research focuses on developing a collaborative, multi-institutional network for conducting high-impact systematic reviews.