Tolga Suvar, MD, is Chair of the CARES Committee (Cancer Action and Research committee for Effective pain Solutions) of the American Society of Pain & Neuroscience (ASPN), where he helps advance cancer pain awareness, education, and advocacy initiatives on behalf of the society. He is a double board-certified anesthesiologist and interventional pain medicine specialist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, where he serves as an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Rush Medical College and directs Rush’s Cancer Pain Management program and Interventional Pain Fellowship. He also practices with University Anesthesiologists, S.C., seeing patients at Rush’s Chicago campus and in Oak Park, Illinois.
Dr. Suvar earned his medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine, completed an anesthesiology residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), and finished a pain medicine fellowship at Rush University Medical Center. His clinical and research interests center on cancer-related pain, complex regional pain syndrome, radiofrequency ablation technique, nerve catheter approaches for perioperative analgesia, and neuromodulation.
He has contributed to the peer-reviewed literature on radiofrequency ablation methodology and nerve catheter techniques, and was a contributing author on ASPN’s multidisciplinary PEAK Consensus Guidelines for Neuromodulation, published in the Journal of Pain Research (2023), which proposed standardized training benchmarks for spinal cord stimulation, DRG stimulation, and peripheral nerve stimulation fellowship education. He has been named a recipient of ASPN’s Education Excellence Award, recognizing contributions to fellowship training and mentorship in pain and neuroscience. Dr. Suvar is fluent in English and Turkish.