Christian R. Falyar, DNAP, CRNA, FAANA

Director of the Acute Surgical Pain Management Fellowship

Christian Falyar is the Director of the Acute Surgical Pain Management Fellowship at the Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia. As a former board-certified vascular sonographer, he has been involved in ultrasound-based education for nearly twenty years dating back to his research with transcranial Doppler sonography in patients suffering from subarachnoid hemorrhage. In addition to his role as Fellowship director, Dr. Falyar coordinates the cadaveric workshops, and teaches the regional anesthesia point-of-care ultrasound curriculum for the entry to practice program. Additionally, he holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Nurse Anesthesia at the University of Iowa. He lectures locally, regionally, and nationally on ultrasound related topics, and has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals. For the past ten years, Dr. Falyar has served as the coordinator for the open ultrasound scanning labs at the AANA Annual Congress.

Modules/Topics Taught:

  • Acute Surgical Pain Management Fellowship Orientation
  • Acute Pain Management in the Non-Surgical Patient
  • Adjuvants
  • Anatomy: Cervical Plexus & Brachial Plexus
  • Anatomy: Lumbar & Sacral Plexus
  • Cadaveric & POCUS Workshop
  • Implications of Anticoagulant Therapy in Regional Anesthesia
  • Local Anesthetics and Lipids
  • Lower Extremity Peripheral Nerve Blocks II (Adductor Canal, Popliteal, Sciatic)
  • Neuraxial Techniques I & II
  • Non-opioid Analgesics
  • Non-traditional Approaches to Acute Pain Management
  • Opioid Analgesics
  • Perioperative Point-of-Care Ultrasound (PoCUS)
  • Ultrasound Principles

Email: christian.falyar@mtsa.edu
Phone: 615-732-7663