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

PAIN MEDICINE

FAX – (310) 745-0393

PHONE – (310) 279-0711

EMAIL – li_guodong@hotmail.com

LOCATIONS

Van Nuys, Mid-Wilshire, East Los Angeles, Inglewood, Lancaster, Riverside, Oxnard, Bakersfield, Downton Los Angeles, Balwin Park

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

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