Yousuf Sayeed, MD, is a pain management physician with The Spine Center at DuPage Medical Group and Edward Hospital, both in Naperville, Ill.
Board certified in pain medicine and anesthesiology, Dr. Sayeed graduated from Loyola University School of Medicine in Maywood, Ill., and holds an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Ill. After completing his residency at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, he practiced at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Ill, where he served as director of pain management services and chairman of anesthesia.
Dr. Sayeed joined Edward Hospital in 1999 and currently serves on several hospital committees. He is a member of the International Spinal Injections Society, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
In an interview with Becker's ASC Review, Dr. Sayeed discussed the importance of establishing a communication pathway between pain management and primary care physicians. "You have to reach out to primary care physicians, hear their concerns and then address them," he says. "We found that their concerns are the same as ours. Once we got their attention, we created a system of communication that is based on electronic medical records. When a primary care physician logs in and sees the patient's record, a yellow screen comes up and informs them that the patient is on opioids, and they are able to initiate a chronic pain communication pathway with a pain management physician in their network of doctors. We built that into our electronic medical records that we share in our entire network of physicians."
Board certified in pain medicine and anesthesiology, Dr. Sayeed graduated from Loyola University School of Medicine in Maywood, Ill., and holds an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Ill. After completing his residency at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, he practiced at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Ill, where he served as director of pain management services and chairman of anesthesia. Dr. Sayeed joined Edward Hospital in 1999 and currently serves on several hospital committees. He is a member of the International Spinal Injections Society, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
In an interview with Becker's ASC Review, Dr. Sayeed discussed the importance of establishing a communication pathway between pain management and primary care physicians. "You have to reach out to primary care physicians, hear their concerns and then address them," he says. "We found that their concerns are the same as ours. Once we got their attention, we created a system of communication that is based on electronic medical records. When a primary care physician logs in and sees the patient's record, a yellow screen comes up and informs them that the patient is on opioids, and they are able to initiate a chronic pain communication pathway with a pain management physician in their network of doctors. We built that into our electronic medical records that we share in our entire network of physicians."