Dr. Richard Vaglienti, M.D.

Richard Vaglienti, MD, MBA, is the Director of WVU Medicine Center for Integrative Pain Management, and an Anesthesiologist for the School of Medicine at West Virginia University; who specializes in Chronic Pain Management. He attained his Doctor of Medicine from WVU School of Medicine in 1986 and completed his Anesthesiology residency from 1986-90, which included specialty training in Pain Medicine, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anesthesia. Certified by both the American Board of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. He was appointed in 1997 to the faculty of Anesthesiology and is presently an Associate Professor; with a secondary appointment in Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry and Neurosciences. He has been awarded several honors throughout his career, including Best Doctors in America from 2001-18.

Vaglienti directs the Chronic Pain Rotation for residents of various specialties and fourth year medical students; provides regular neurosurgery, psychiatry, and anesthesiology didactic lectures as assigned; and helped develop the opioid prescribing curriculum required for WV state licensure renewal. He has been an invited lecturer at the national, regional, and university levels. Presently involved in several Institutional, State, and National Committees; he Chairs the Medical Staff Affairs Pain Management Committee creating uniform pain treatment policies and programs to decrease opioid use, and promoting alternative therapies throughout the Health System. Also, involved in several Integrative Pain Management clinical studies, such as being the first site to launch the testing of a non-opioid micro pellet implant for chronic pain.