Dr. Amber Borucki is an anesthesiologist and pain medicine specialist whose focus is chronic pain management in children and adolescents/young adults and reducing or managing pain from chronic conditions or pain that occurs after surgery.  Dr. Borucki completed her medical degree at Rush Medical College in Chicago, IL.  She attended anesthesia residency at the University of Chicago.  She completed a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Boston Children's Hospital as well as a combined adult/pediatric pain medicine fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham Women's Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.  Dr. Borucki worked for one year in private practice in anesthesiology in Reno, Nevada.  Dr. Borucki then began her 5-year tenure at UCSF as a pediatric anesthesiologist and pain medicine specialist and was the Director of the Pediatric Anesthesia Service at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.  

Notable accomplishments at UCSF include developing and co-chairing the UCSF Benioff Transbay Pediatric Pain Management Commitee, creation of an ambulatory peripheral nerve catheter program, development of the pediatric perioperative transitional pain service, establishment of an adolescent/young adult transitional pain clinic, creation of several medical center protocols (lidocaine infusion, local anesthetic toxicity procedure, neuraxial anesthesia protocol for the neonatal intensive care unit), and serving on the Bridge to One Bay project to standardize pain care across all UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital locations.    Dr. Borucki also was instrumental in helping UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital obtain ChildKind designation, a prestigious designation for a hospital indicating that it prioritizes pediatric pain care. Dr. Borucki was involved in trainee education and mentoring and participated in UCSF medical school's SPAN program (Specialty Practice subiNternship Program) where she mentored 4^th year medical students in her pain clinic.  Dr. Borucki became a UCSF DEI Champion and was a member of the diversity, equity, and inclusion committee through the Stad Center Division of Pediatric Pain, Palliative Care, and Integrative Medicine.  

Dr. Borucki is a member of the medical advisory council for the Make a Wish Bay Area chapter.  She is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine (SPPM) and also will be the associate program director for the upcoming 11^th annual SPPM meeting.   Dr. Borucki has also served on several committees through the American Society of Anesthesiologists and California Society of Anesthesiologists.  Dr. Borucki served as an editorial board member for Paediatric and Neonatal Pain.