Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Division of Pain ManagementSpecialty AreasPain Management
Anesthesiology
Patients Seen At:Pain Management Center
Center for Advanced Medicine
4921 Parkview Place, A, 10
St. Louis, MO 63110
314-362-8820
Fax: 314-362-9471
Mailing AddressWashington University School of Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology/Pain Management
660 South Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8054
St. Louis, MO 63110
Areas of Clinical InterestAcute pain and peripheral nerve blocks. Chronic neck pain, chronic back pain, CRPS, cervicogenic headaches and trigeminal neuralgia. Interventional management including spine injections, radiofrequency and pulsed radiofrequency, spinal cord stimulator and peripheral nerve stimulator, intrathecal pump, vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty.
Board CertificationPain Management -- Certified
Anesthesiology -- Certified
Medical EducationMB: Southcentral University School of Medicine, Changsha, China, 1985
Medical Degree: Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 1990
Chief Residient: Medicine, Beijing Hosptial, The Fifth Clinical College of Beijing University , 1991
Fellowship: Gastronenterology, University of Virginia and Beijing Hospital, The Fifth Clinical College of Beijing University, 1992.
Fellowship: Anesthesiology Research, University Of Virginia Health Sciences Center, 1999
Residency: Anesthesiology, SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, New York, 2003
Fellowship: Pain Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2004
Hospital AffiliationsBarnes-Jewish Hospital
Major or Recent Publications/Awards
Honors and AwardsResident Scholar, ASA/FARE, 2001
Journal Articles
Kristin VanderPloeg, Xiaobin Yi. Acupuncture in modern society. J Acupunct Meridian Stud (JAMS) 2(1):26-33; 2009
Doran C, Yi X. The anti-inflammatory effect of local anesthetics. The Pain Cliic Vol 19 (5):207-13; 2007
Fang H, Patanavanich S, Rajagopal S, Yi XB, Gill MS, Sando JJ, and Kamatchi GL. Inhibitory Role of Ser-425 of the _1 2.2 Subunit in the Enhancement of Cav 2.2 Currents by Phorbol-12-myristate,13-Acetate. The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) Vol 281 (29): 20011-17; 2006
Yi XB, Cook A, Hamill-Ruth RJ, Rowlingson JC. Misdiagnosis of occipital neuralgia, The Journal of Pain 2004; 5(3):36
Yi XB, Cook A, Hamill-RuthRJ, Rowlingson JC. Cervicogenic headache in patients with presumed migraine: misdiagnosis or missed diagnosis. The Journal of Pain Vol 6(10):700; 2005
Yi X.B, C. Lynch III. Clevidipine blockade of L-type Ca currents: Steady-state and kinetic electrophysiological studies in guinea pig ventricular myocytes. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology 36:592; 2000