Penn Medicine Provider
Pain Management, Anesthesiology
Veena Graff, MD
4.8
(182)
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 12 and up
Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care HUP
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About me

  • 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

Education and training

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

What my patients think about me

Average Rating
4.8

182 reviews

Comments are submitted by patients and reflect their views and opinions. The comments are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of Penn Medicine.

April 2025
5.0
5.0
nothing more dr veena graff is good should have more doctors like her
April 2025
5.0
5.0
dr. graff listens to her patients and uses their input to make care decisions.
April 2025
5.0
5.0
great bedside manner
February 2025
3.0
3.0
the doctor was very pleasant and offered what i think is a decent course of action. i feel like she was a little rushed, though. it certainly wasn't a bad experience, but i felt like i kept on trying to redirect things to what my biggest source of pain is and that she wasn't that interested in it. i also found it very strange that i brought a dvd with my mri images and she never looked at it, i have found that doctors like looking at images rather than looking at radiologist reports.

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Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Graff is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

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

Januka Nepal, John Gallego, Julia T Hoffman, Karmen L Delancey, Bailey Williams, Emely Sanchez Rodriguez, Deepak Khazanchi, Hongmei Wang, Veena Graff, Karsten Bartels Development and pilot-testing of a patient-facing medical app to improve post-surgical pain management after discharge , Anesthesiology 2022 Meeting, New Orleans, LA : 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): 2021,111-121