Dr. Alparslan Turan is a Professor of Anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and Vice Chair for the Department of Outcomes Research and General Anesthesia, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, OH, USA. He is the author of more than 100 peer reviewed papers including a landmark paper on postoperative nausea and vomiting (New England Journal of Medicine). Dr. Alparslan Turan's research interests include postsurgical chronic pain, nausea and vomiting, perioperative pain management, and outcome studies. Acute pain management and postsurgical chronic pain is one of his areas of interest, and he has conducted numerous clinical studies on the role of gabapentin in the perioperative setting.