Guodong Li MD – Meddocs

Guodong, Li, M.D., Ph.D.

PAIN MEDICINE

Phone: (818) 990-0657
Fax: (818) 990-0672
Email: frontdesk@med-docs.net

LOCATIONS

Baldwin Park, Bakersfield, DTLA, East LA, Inglewood, Lancaster, Mid-Wilshire, Oxnard, Riverside, Van Nuys

Board Certifications

American Board of Pain Medicine
American Board of Anesthesiology
ABA Pain Medicine

Area of Clinical Interests

Pain medicine, Anesthesiology, Addiction Medicine, Buprenorphine Prescriber

Acute pain and peripheral neuralgia, Chronic cancer-related and non-cancer pain, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, cervicogenic headaches, other headaches, trigeminal neuralgia

Interventional pain management: cervical, thoracic, lumbar facet blocks, cervical, thoracic, lumbar caudal, transforaminal or translaminar epidural injections, stellate ganglion block, lumbar sympathetic nerve block, ganglion impar block, celiac plexus block, splanchnic nerve block, ilioinguinal, iliohypogastric block, genitofemoral nerve block, pudendal nerve block, lateral femoral cutaneous nerve block, sacroiliac joint injection, piriformis muscle injection, trigeminal nerve block, gasserian ganglion block, sphenopalatine ganglion block, supraorbital nerve block, occipital nerve block, anterior scalene muscle block, pectoralis minor muscle block, joint injections, peripheral nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablations, cooled and pulsed radiofrequency ablations, spinal cord stimulator implantation, intrathecal pump implantation, vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, percutaneous electrical nerve stimulator

Work Experience

Current Member at Valley Presbyterian Hospital
Current Member at Libbit Surgical Center
Current Member at San Vicente Surgery Center
Current Member at Center for Orthopedic Surgery Institute
Current Member at Mountain View Surgery Center
Current Pain Management and Anesthesia Private Practice at Los Angeles, California
Member at Starpoint Surgery Center
Member at Conservative Care Specialists Medical Group
Pain Medicine Fellowship training at Washington University School of Medicine
Anesthesiology Residency training at UCLA Department of Anesthesiology
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, UCLA
Post-Graduate Researcher, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, UCLA

Awards

ASBMB (The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Award, USA

Education

Pain Medicine Fellowship with Addiction Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine
Anesthesiology Residency, UCLA Department of Anesthesiology
MD, PhD, School of Medicine, Jiao Tong University
Master of Medicine, Medical College of Qingdao University
Bachelor of Medicine, Medical College of Qingdao University

Publications

Book chapters:

Richard W. Olsen and Guodong Li. Chapter 30: GABA, Basic Neurochemistry, Principles of Molecular, Cellular and Medical Neurobiology, 8th Edition. Eds. S.T. Brady, G.J. Siegel, R.W. Albers, and D.L. Price. Elsevier, Oxford, 2012

Richard W. Olsen and Guodong Li. GABA(A) receptors, Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry, 2nd Edition. Eds. W.J. Lennarz and M.D. Lane. Elsevier, Oxford, 2013

Guodong Li, Changsheng S. Chang, and Richard W. Olsen. Anesthetic sites on GABA(A) receptors. In Basic and Systemic Mechanisms of Anesthesia. Eds. T. Mashimo, K. Ogli, and I. Uchida. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Int. Congr. Ser., 2011

Peer-reviewed articles:

Richard W. Olsen and Guodong Li. Chapter 30: GABA, Basic Neurochemistry, Principles of Molecular, Cellular and Medical Neurobiology, 8th Edition. Eds. S.T. Brady, G.J. Siegel, R.W. Albers, and D.L. Price. Elsevier, Oxford, 2012
Richard W. Olsen and Guodong Li. GABA(A) receptors, Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry, 2nd Edition. Eds. W.J. Lennarz and M.D. Lane. Elsevier, Oxford, 2013
Guodong Li, Changsheng S. Chang, and Richard W. Olsen. Anesthetic sites on GABA(A) receptors. In Basic and Systemic Mechanisms of Anesthesia. Eds. T. Mashimo, K. Ogli, and I. Uchida. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Int. Congr. Ser., 2011

Peer-reviewed articles:

Zhang F, Xu F, Mi X, Dong L, Xiao Y, Jiang S, Li G.D., Zhou Y. Ghrelin GHS-R1a signaling plays different roles in anxiety-related behaviors after acute and chronic caloric restriction. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2012 Sep; 429(3): 578-583
Li N, Cui L, Song G, Guo L, Xu H, Cao H, Li G.D., Zhou Y. Adolescent Isolation Interacts With DISC1 Point Mutation to Impair Adult Social Memory and Synaptic Functions in the Hippocampus. Front Cell Neurosci. 2013 Aug; 7: 173
Olsen RW, Li G.D., Wallner M, Trudell JR, Bertaccini E, Lindahl E, Miller KW, Alkana RL, Davies DL. Structural Models of Ligand-Gated Ion Channels: Sites of Action for Anesthetics and Ethanol. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2013 Mar; 37(3): 453-460
Zhao Z, Liu H, Xiao K, Yu M, Zhu Q, Zhao R, Li G.D., Zhou Y. Ghrelin administration enhances neurogenesis but impairs spatial learning and memory in adult mice. Neuroscience. 2013 Jan; 229: 234-243
Stewart DS, Hotta M, Li G.D., Desai R, Chiara DC, Olsen RW, Forman SA. Cysteine substitutions define etomidate binding and gating linkages in the alpha1M2 domain of gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptors. J. Biol. Chem. 2013 Oct; 288(41): 5970-5983
Zhu Q, Xiao K, Yu M, Niu M, Li C, Gao Y, Li G.D., Zhou Y. Ghrelin but not nesfatin-1 affects certain forms of learning and memory in both rats and mice. Brain Res. 2013; 1510: 15-22
Song L, Zhu Q, Liu T, Yu M, Xiao K, Kong Q, Zhao R, Li G.D., Zhou Y. Ghrelin modulates lateral amygdala neuronal firing and blocks acquisition for conditioned taste aversion. PLoS One. 2013 Jun; 8(6): e64847
Richard W. Olsen and Guodong Li. GABA(A) receptors as molecular targets of general anesthetics, identification of binding sites provides clues to allosteric modulation. Can J Anaesth. 2013; 60(5): 445-448
Guodong Li, David C. Chiara, Jonathan B. Cohen, and Richard W. Olsen. Numerous classes of general anesthetics inhibit etomidate binding to gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptors. J. Biol. Chem. 2013; 288(6): 3722-3731
Guodong Li, David C. Chiara, Jonathan B. Cohen, and Richard W. Olsen. Neurosteroids allosterically modulate binding of the anesthetic etomidate to gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptors. J. Biol. Chem. 2013; 288(6): 3790-3800
Zhou Y, Takahashi E, Li W, Halt A, Wiltgen B, Ehninger D, Li G.D., Hell JW, Kennedy MB, Silva AJ. Interactions between the NR2B receptor and CAMKII modulate synaptic plasticity and spatial learning. J. Neurosci. 2013; 33(15): 6634-6644
Guodong Li, David C. Chiara, Greg W. Sawyer, Shaukat Husain, Richard W. Olsen, and Jonathan B. Cohen. Identification of a GABA(A) receptor anesthetic binding site at subunit interfaces by photolabeling with an etomidate analog. J. Neurosci. 2013; 33(40): 15738-15750
Guodong Li, David C. Chiara, Greg W. Sawyer, Shaukat Husain, Richard W. Olsen, and Jonathan B. Cohen. Intersubunit anesthetic binding on GABA(A) receptors. J. Neurosci. 2013; 33(40): 15750-15761
Shaukat Husain, Selvanayagam Nirthanan, Dirk Ruesch, Ken Solt, Qi Cheng, Guodong Li, Enrique Arevalo, Richard W. Olsen, Douglas E. Raines, Stuart A. Forman, Jonathan B. Cohen, and Keith W. Miller. Synthesis of trifluoromethylarlyldiazirine and benzophenone derivatives of etomidate that are potent general anesthetics and effective photolabels for probing sites on ligand-gated ion channels. J. Med. Chem. 2013; 56(3): 1531-1543
Richard W. Olsen, Changsheng S. Chang, Guodong Li et al. Fishing for allosteric sites on GABA(A) receptors. Biochem. Pharmacol. 2013; 85(2): 234-245
Guodong Li, Yu Zhou, and Zhiqi Zhao. State-dependent phosphorylation of epsilon isozyme of protein kinase C in adult rat dorsal root ganglia after inflammation and nerve injury. J. Neurochem. 2013; 125(1): 136-146
Guodong Li, Yan Wo, Mei Fang Zhong et al. Expression of fibroblast growth factors in rat dorsal