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Chester C. Buckenmaier, III, MD

Professor Anesthesiology
Uniformed Services University
Bethesda, Maryland

Doctor Chester “Trip” Buckenmaier III, MD, Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired) recently retired as the Program Director and Principal Investigator for the Uniformed Services University’s (USU) Defense & Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management (DVCIPM) under the Department of Military Emergency Medicine. He is Program Director Emeritus of the National Capital Consortium’s Regional Anesthesia Fellowship Program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), Professor in Anesthesiology at the USU and a Diplomat, with the American Board of Anesthesiology.
He attended Catawba College, on a Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship, graduating with a degree in Biology in 1986. He then attended East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., receiving a Master in Science in Biology in 1988. In 1992, he graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, completing his Anesthesia Residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In addition, he completed a one-year Fellowship in Regional Anesthesia at Duke University in 2002, resulting in the creation of the only Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship in the Department of Defense.
In September 2003, he deployed with the 21st Combat Support Hospital (CSH) to Balad, Iraq, and demonstrated that the use of advanced regional anesthesia can be accomplished in a forward-deployed environment. He performed the first successful continuous peripheral nerve block for pain management in a CSH.

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