Nicole Z. Spence, MD
Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Anesthesiology

MD, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
BS, Emory University



Dr. Nicole Spence received her medical degree from Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed her residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University, New York, NY and an accredited regional anesthesiology/acute pain management fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. She is a board-certified anesthesiologist.

Dr. Spence is committed to improving perioperative pain control, patient satisfaction, encompassing regional anesthetic techniques, optimizing narcotic sparing modalities, researching anesthesia and women’s health, and fostering patient and trainee education. She spends most of her clinical practice as an orthopedic, obstetric, regional, and perioperative pain anesthesiologist and is committed to teaching students and trainees. She has developed various institutional guidelines to improve patient care in these areas.

Publications listed below are automatically derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and other sources, which might result in incorrect or missing publications. Faculty can login to make corrections and additions.

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  1. Roth S, Wald HS, Spence NZ, Oratz R, Schwartz DM. Hypocrisy of moral imperatives in the Israel-Hamas war. Lancet. 2024 Apr 20; 403(10436):1542. PMID: 38608685
     
  2. Das S, Vasudevan A, Nieves-Rivera A, Edwards H, Spence NZ. Perceptions about perioperative communication among anesthesiologists and surgeons and the impact of perceived status hierarchies on teamwork in the operating room. JCA Advances. 2024; 10012. View Publication
  3. Holland E, Gibbs L, Spence NZ, Young M, Werler MM, Guang Z, Saia K, Bateman BT, Achu R, Wachman EM. A comparison of postpartum opioid consumption and opioid discharge prescriptions among opioid-naïve patients and those with opioid use disorder. Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2023 Aug; 5(8):101025.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37211090
     
  4. Wong ML, Achu RA, Spence NZ, White KO. Feasibility of methadone for pain relief in first trimester abortion (Boston, Massachusetts 2022). Contraception. 2023 Sep; 125:110052.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37105280
     
  5. Yeh K, Spence N, Beaulieu-Jones BR, Taylor M, Jhaveri A, Centola K, Charise T, Orf J, Richman A. Reduced Rates of Pneumonia After Implementation of an Electronic Checklist for the Management of Patients with Multiple Rib Fractures at a Level One Trauma Center. Surgery in Practice and Science. 2023; (14):100192. View Publication
  6. Vasudevan A, Achu R, Perry A, Yarrington C, Norris M, Tracy L, Spence NZ. Impact of pregnancy on airway complications after intubation for COVID-19 infection: A case series. Am J Otolaryngol. 2022 Sep-Oct; 43(5):103522.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35696815; PMCID: PMC9161698; DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2022.103522;
     
  7. Tabbara AK, Krishnan S, Vaynberg E, Spence NZ, Lambert DH. Intraoperative methadone: Proceed with care. J Opioid Manag. 2022; 18(4):377-383.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36052934
     
  8. Katz D, Bateman BT, Kjaer K, Turner DP, Spence NZ, Habib AS, George RB, Toledano RD, Grant G, Madden HE, Butwick AJ, Lynde G, Minehart RD, Beilin Y, Houle TT, Sharpe EE, Kodali B, Bharadwaj S, Farber MK, Palanisamy A, Prabhu M, Gonzales NY, Landau R, Leffert L. The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Coronavirus Disease 2019 Registry: An Analysis of Outcomes Among Pregnant Women Delivering During the Initial Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 Outbreak in the United States. Anesth Analg. 2021 08 01; 133(2):462-473. PMID: 33830956
     
  9. Hyland SJ, Brockhaus KK, Vincent WR, Spence NZ, Lucki MM, Howkins MJ, Cleary RK. Perioperative Pain Management and Opioid Stewardship: A Practical Guide. Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Mar 16; 9(3). PMID: 33809571; PMCID: PMC8001960; DOI: 10.3390/healthcare9030333;
     
  10. Spence NZ, Lu ME, Larson AR, Ortega R. COVID-19 and occupational skin hazards for anaesthetists. Br J Anaesth. 2020 12; 125(6):e476-e478.View Related Profiles. PMID: 32977956; PMCID: PMC7467089; DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.08.040;
     
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2020 Boston Medical Center: Great Catch Award for Patient Safety
2009 Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School: Abdol Islami MD Foundation Scholarship
2008 Emory University: 100 Senior Honorary
2007 Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society
2006 Emory University: Alpha Epsilon Delta Pre-Medical Honor Society, Georgia Beta Chapter
2006 Emory University: Nu Rho Psi: Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology Honor Society
In addition to these self-described keywords below, a list of MeSH based concepts is available here.

opioid stewardship
Regional Anesthesia
education
Obstetric Anesthesia
acute pain management

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