Met Akin

Director
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medicine
United States of America

Biography

Dr. Mete Akin is board certified in anesthesiology and board eligible in pain medicine. He provides inpatient and outpatient consultations, procedures and follow-up care to patients suffering from many types of acute and chronic pain conditions. Dr. Akin has experience in a variety of interventional pain procedures, including dorsal column stimulators, provocative discography, kyphoplasty, sympathetic ganglion blocks and radiofrequency ablation, as well as medication management. Dr. Akin grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, where he attended Carnegie Mellon University. After completing several years of post-graduate research in molecular biochemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, he went to medical school at Nova Southeastern University in Miami, earning a Doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine and a Master of Public Health. He completed his residency and fellowship training at the Temple University branch of Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Research Intrest

Anesthesiology, Chronic Pain, Interventional Pain Management, Pain Management, Pain Medicine, Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA), Radiofrequency Ablation for Pain Control

List of Publications
Akin M, Fernández MI, Bowen SG, Warren JC. "HIV Risk and Immigrants: Behaviors of MSM from Latin America and the Caribbean in Miami, Florida." Pan American Journal of Public Health. 2008:23(5):341-348. PMID 18510794.
Limbu B, Akin M, Raiju S. "Age Based Comparison of Nasolacrimal Duct Probing Success in Nepalese Children." Orbit. 2010;29(1):16-20.PMID 20302404.