For more information about the Pain Fellowship, please visit the Anesthesiology Web site.
Where have our recent fellows have gone after the completion of the program:
2008: Anita Gupta, M.D., Pharm.D. - University of Pennsylvannia, Division of Pain Medicine
2008: Bryan Williams, M.D. - Rush University, Division of Pain Medicine
2007: Chad Brummett, M.D. - University of Michigan, Division of Pain Medicine
2007: Robert Hurley, M.D./Ph.D. - Johns Hopkins University, Division of Pain Medicine
2006: Jim Houston, M.D. - Bethesda Naval Hospital, Division of Pain Medicine
2006-2008: Dave Maine, Greg Hobelmann, Sarah Merritt, Aubrey Verdun, Amit Sharma - Private Practice Pain Management
Publications from our recent fellows during their Pain Fellowship:
Cohen SP, Stojanovic MP, Crooks M, Kim P, Schmidt RK, Shields CH, Croll S, Hurley RW. Lumbar zygapophysial (facet) joint radiofrequency denervation success as a
function of pain relief during diagnostic medial branch blocks: a multicenter analysis. Spine J. 2008 May-Jun;8(3):498-504. Epub 2007 Jun 18.
Cohen SP, Christo PJ, Wang S, Chen L, Stojanovic MP, Shields CH, Brummett C, Mao J. The effect of opioid dose and treatment duration on the perception of a painful
standardized clinical stimulus. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2008 May-Jun;33(3):199-206. PMID: 18433669
Cohen SP, Hurley RW, Christo PJ, Winkley J, Mohiuddin MM, Stojanovic MP. Clinical predictors of success and failure for lumbar facet radiofrequency denervation. Clin J Pain. 2007 Jan;23(1):45-52. PMID: 17277644
Cohen SP, Hurley RW. The ability of diagnostic spinal injections to predict surgical outcomes. Anesth Analg. 2007 Dec;105(6):1756-75, PMID: 18042881
Cohen SP, Bajwa ZH, Kraemer JJ, Dragovich A, Williams KA, Stream J, Sireci A, McKnight G, Hurley RW. Factors predicting success and failure for cervical facet radiofrequency
denervation: a multi-center analysis. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2007 Nov-Dec;32(6):495-503. PMID: 18035295
Sykes KT, White SR, Hurley RW, Mizoguchi H, Tseng LF, Hammond DL. Mechanisms responsible for the enhanced antinociceptive effects of mu-opioid receptor agonists in the rostral ventromedial medulla of male rats with persistent inflammatory pain. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2007 Aug;322(2):813-21. Epub 2007 May 9.
Cohen SP, Wenzell D,Hurley RW, Kurihara C, Buckenmaier CC 3rd, Griffith S, Larkin TM, Dahl E, Morlando BJ. A double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-response pilot study evaluating
intradiscal etanercept in patients with chronic discogenic low back pain or lumbosacral radiculopathy. Anesthesiology. 2007 Jul;107(1):99-105.
Johanek LM, Meyer RA, Hartke T, Hobelmann JG, Maine DN, LaMotte RH, Ringkamp M. Psychophysical and physiological evidence for parallel afferent pathways mediating the sensation of itch. J Neurosci. 2007 Jul 11;27(28):7490-7.
Christo PJ, Hobelmann G, Maine DN. Post-herpetic neuralgia in older adults: evidence-based approaches to clinical management. Drugs Aging. 2007;24(1):1-19.
Sharma A, Williams K, Raja SN. Advances in treatment of complex regional pain syndrome: recent insights on a perplexing disease. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2006 Oct;19(5):566-72.
