Aaron J. Przybysz, MD, PhD

Assistant Clinical Professor​
Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

Dr. Aaron Przybysz (pronounced shi-bish) is a board-certified UCI anesthesiologist and pain management physician who specializes in interventional pain management. His clinical interests include spine pain, peripheral joint pain, neuropathic pain, cancer pain, and headache management.

He earned his medical degree from Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine in East Lansing and a PhD from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., where he studied signaling pathways associated with the oxidative stress response. He completed a residency in anesthesiology and a fellowship in pain medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

His research interests include the use of perioperative and intraoperative analgesic techniques to reduce post-operative pain, the effects steroid injections may have on diabetes management, as well as the role cannabinoids may play in treating acute and chronic pain.