Gabor B. Racz

Gbor Bla Rcz , is a boardcertified anesthesiologist and professor emeritus at Texas Tech University Health Science Center in Lubbock, Texas, where he is also Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Anesthesiology and CoDirector of Pain Services. He has worked in the field of chronic back pain and complex regional pain syndrome .

Racz was born in Hungary and, as a young man, had aspirations to become a medical doctor. He was a secondyear medical student in November 1956 when he was forced to flee Hungary after the Soviets invaded Budapest in response to the Hungarian Revolution. He eventually arrived in England and resumed his education. He graduated from the University of Liverpool School of Medicine, and worked in the UK until 1963 at which time he moved to the United States. He completed his anesthesiology residency at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. He also worked as an associate attending anesthesiologist and respiratory consultant for other hospitals including the Veterans Administration Hospital, and the UHS Chenango Memorial Hospital in Norwich, New York before moving to Lubbock, Texas where he became the first Chairman of Anesthesiology for the thennew Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center . Racz is also one of the founders of the World Institute of Pain.

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