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Fairuz Boujibar is a leading anesthesiology and perioperative medicine researcher whose work centers on optimizing pain management and functional assessment for patients undergoing thoracic surgery, particularly minimally invasive lung cancer resection. Her major contributions lie in two key areas: evaluating novel regional anesthesia techniques and developing practical preoperative functional tests to predict postoperative complications. Boujibar’s most cited work, a 2021 propensity score study on opioid-free anesthesia after video-assisted thoracic surgery (47 citations), demonstrated that avoiding opioids can reduce complications without compromising pain control. She further advanced clinical practice by showing that simple, low-tech tests like the 6-minute stepper test and sit-to-stand test (19 citations) effectively predict complications after major pulmonary resection, offering a practical alternative to traditional cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Her research on erector spinae plane blocks versus paravertebral blocks (15 citations) and the combination of paravertebral with serratus anterior plane blocks (9 citations) has helped refine multimodal analgesia protocols. Boujibar’s work is notable for its direct clinical applicability, providing surgeons and anesthesiologists with evidence-based tools to improve patient outcomes and reduce respiratory complications in thoracic surgery.