BOARD CERTIFICATION

Diplomate — American Academy of Pain Management
Board-Certified Fellow — American College of Pain Medicine
American Board of Anesthesiologists — Board Certified
ASA/ABMS — Sub-specialty with added qualifications in Pain Management

LICENSURE

Medicine and Surgery, State of New York
Medicine and Surgery, State of California
Medicine and Surgery, State of New Jersey
Medicine and Surgery, State of Florida

POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION

Staten Island Hospital (at the time, Affiliate Straight Medical Internship
of State Univ. of New York Downstate Medical PGY-1, July 1, 1983 to June 30, 1984 Center)

Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, New York Anesthesiology Residency
July 1984 to June 30, 1986

Columbia University Medical Center Visiting Clinical Fellow
July 1984 to June 30, 1986

Pain Management Center Pain Fellowship (July 1, 1986 to June 30, 1987)
UCLA Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology.
· Comprehensive pain management training with extensive experience with cancer and chronic pain patients.
· Special emphasis on psychological and operant components of pain and rehabilitation in this multidisciplinary setting.
· Concentrated upon regional anesthesia.
· Focused on fibromyalgia.
· Investigation of RSD (CRPS).
· Developed program for chronic back pain—arachnoiditis patients with clinic physiatrist.
· Set up PCA (patient-controlled analgesia) Program.
· Neurolytic and implantable techniques.
· Inpatient pain management training at Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital during fellowship.
· Specific training in cryoneurolysis, neurolytic blockade, intrapleural catheter technique, and regional anesthetic procedures.

POST-EDUCATION COURSEWORK

Interventional Techniques Workshops for Pain Management
Key West, Florida and Columbus, Ohio.
·Focus upon spinal stimulators, intrathecal pumps, long-term epidural catheters and intrapleural catheters.
·Full clinical, hands-on didactic sessions.

Spinal Implantation
University of Kentucky
·Instruction from neurosurgeons, vascular surgeons and anesthesiologists.
·Full clinical, hands-on didactic sessions.

Workshop on Neuroaugmentative Techniques for Pain Control
University of Oregon, Faculty.
·Lecture: "The Anesthesiologist and Interventional-Implantable Techniques."
·Full clinical hands-on didactic sessions.

Faculty: Interventional Techniques Workshop (three-day coverage)
San Francisco, CA.
·Full clinical, hands-on didactic sessions.

Faculty: Interventional Techniques Workshop (three-day coverage)
Cape Cod, MA.
Full clinical, hands-on didactic session.

Faculty: Dannemiller Implantable Techniques Workshop
Phoenix, AZ, 1991.

Faculty: Dannemiller Implantable Techniques Workshop
San Francisco, CA, 1992.

Spine Pain Symposium
San Francisco Spine Institute, April 1993.

Spokesman, National Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Association
(Three-Day Refresher Course) Western Pain Society
· RSD and Failed Back Surgery Syndrome.
· Neurosurgical approach with Jay Law, M.D. and Giancarlo Barocat, M.D., April 1994.

Endoscopic Epidurography-Myelography; Lysis of Epidural Adhesions; RSD
(Three-Day Workshop)
University of Louisville, April 1994.

Faculty: Dannemiller Educational Foundation Pain Management Seminar—
Implantable Techniques Workshop, December 9, 1994 - December 11, 1994.

"Pain Treatment Centers—A Practical and Conceptual Reappraisal"
Johns Hopkins Symposium, March 3, 1995 - March 5, 1995.

Lectures: "Neuroaugmentative Techniques in Pain Management"
Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital Pain Management Center, May 1995.

Lecture: "Radiofrequency Techniques in Management of Chronic Pain"
Lakewood Regional Hospital, September 1996.

"Pain: The Physiology, Pathology, Treatment and Management of Pain"
Lecturer, California Applicants’ Attorneys Association.
Kihei, Hawaii, March 20, 1999 to March 27, 1999

Participant: Dannemiller Memorial Education Foundation—
Interventional Pain Management, Bermuda, August 1999.

"Interventional Pain Management and Spinal Diagnostics"
Lecturer, California Consumer Attorneys Association.
Las Vegas, Nevada, Fall 2002 Conference.

Faculty: Intradiscal Electrothermal Annuloplasty (IDET) Workshops
ORATEC Interventions, Inc.
Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California, February 2000.
· Full clinical, hands-on and didactic sessions.

Consultant, Arthrocare Corporation—Percutaneous Diskectomy (Nucleoplasty)–
Current 2003

Interventional Pain Management Symposium
American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.
Washington, D.C., September 6, 2003 to September 8, 2003.

Participant: Percutaneous Vertebroplasty & Discectomy
Stryker Interventional Pain
Mountainview, California October 9, 2004

North American Spine Society
19th Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois, October 26 to October 30, 2004

The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
2004 Annual Fall Pain Meeting & Workshop
Phoenix, Arizona November 11 to November 14, 2004

CURRENT RESEARCH

·- Product Evaluation, Medtronic CorporationAdvanced Bionics Corporation, 2004
Spinal cord stimulator.

FORMER WORK

·- Medical Director and CEO: Freestanding Multidisciplinary Pain Management and Rehabilitation Centers in Southern California—Southland Pain Management Medical Centers, Inc. Lakewood, Redondo Beach, Encino, Downey, Beverly Hills, Santa Ana, Riverside.
·- Pain Management Consultant: Lakewood Regional Medical Center, Lakewood, CA.
·- Pain Management Consultant: Little Company of Mary Hospital, Torrance, CA.
·- Pain Management Consultant: Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.
·- Pain Management Consultant: Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital, Norwalk, CA.
·- Consultant — Medtronic Corporation — Neurological Division — Implantable Techniques.
-  Qualified Medical Evaluator — Certified, State of California.
·- Assistant Clinical Professor: U.C. San Diego Pain Management Center
·- Pain Management Consultant: CIGNA, FHP Health Plans, Fremont Insurance, CRA Care Management, Lakewood Health Plan
-  Lecturer — Dannemiller Foundation — Pain Management
·- Faculty: Medtronics Corporation — Implantable Techniques Workshops.
·- Pain Management Consultant: Oncology Service — Little Company of Mary Hospital, Torrance, CA.

CLINICAL APPOINTMENTS (voluntary)

Assistant Clinical Professor, 1996-1998
U.C. San Diego Pain Management Center
Formerly Assistant Clinical Professor,
Anesthesiology and Pain Management, UCLA Medical Center
Appointment 1988

STAFF APPOINTMENTS STATUS

- Saint Barnabas Medical CenterPacific Hospital of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA Active
- Overlook HospitalLakewood Regional Medical Center, Lakewood, CA Active
- Palisades Medical Center
- Englewood Hospital (Pending)Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital, Norwalk, CA Active

HONORS, AWARDS AND CITATIONS

Union College B.S., Chemistry — Summa Cum Laude
Union College, Fuller Chemistry Prize and Citation
Departmental Honors, Department of Medicine, Downstate Medical School
Departmental Honors, Department of Surgery, Downstate Medical School
Departmental Honors, Department of Anesthesiology, Downstate Medical School
Golden Scalpel Award, Medtronic Corporation

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Chronic Pain — Multidisciplinary Interfacing
Patient-Controlled Analgesia (Established UCLA program, 1986-1987)
Referred Myofascial Pain, Mechanisms and Pathways
Thermographic Diagnostic Modalities in Low Back Pain
Epidural Narcotics and Postoperative Pain Management
Referred Pain and the Sympathetic Nervous System
Spinal Stimulation for Vascular Ischemic Pain and RSD
Implantable opiate pumps for intractable cancer pain
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Cervical and Thoracic Discography
Percutaneous Cervical Disk Decompression
Percutaneous Vertebroplasty & Discectomy

SPECIAL PROFICIENCIES

- NUCLEOPLASTY, PERCUTANEOUS DISKECTOMY
-  PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY & DISCECTOMY
-  IDET— Intradiscal Electrothermal Annuloplasty
-  DISCOGRAPHY—Cervical, Lumbar, Thoracic (many thousands performed)
-  IMPLANTABLE TECHNIQUES: · Spinal Cord Stimulation
·- Implantable Intrathecal Pumps
- · DuPen Catheters
·- Port-A-Cath Linked Epidural Catheter
-  SELECTIVE NERVE ROOT BLOCKS
-  CERVICAL, THORACIC AND LUMBAR EPIDURALS
-  NEUROLYTIC BLOCKS
-  INTRAPLEURAL BLOCKS
-  CRYONEUROLYSIS
-  "RACZ TYPE" CAUDALS — Saline, Epidural Adhesiolysis
-  CANCER PAIN
-  PCA SETUP AND MONITORING
-  CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY (IATROGENIC) AND DETOX
-  WORKERS' COMPENSATION REPORTS
-  MMPI EVALUATION
-  EVALUATION AND TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH CRPS
-  SPINAL DIAGNOSTICS

LECTURE TOPICS

- Minimally Invasive Disk Decompression, Cervicothoracic and Lumbar Spinal Implantation Procedures for Pain Management
- PCA: Patient Controlled Analgesia
- Chronic Pain Management
- Cancer Pain
- Chronic Headaches
- Postoperative Pain
- Invasive Pain Management Techniques
- RSD—CRPS
- Discography
- Spinal Diagnostics
- IDET (Intradiscal Electrothermal Annuloplasty)
- Percutaneous Vertbroplasty & Discectomy

CURRENT WORK

Pain Medicine Consultant, Salus Surgicenter and Healthcare Corporation
Co-Director, Atlas Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine (Manhattan, New York and Milburn, New Jersey Offices)