Dr. Christo is a board certified, Harvard-trained anesthesiologist and Hopkins-trained pain medicine specialist. He is the program director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship Program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Christo is a lecturer, reviewer for pain journal, teacher, and published author in areas relating to pain medicine. He has coordinated several CME (continuing medical education) programs that focus on educating both specialists and generalists on important aspects of pain diagnosis and treatment. He has recently been named a Mayday Foundation fellow in which he will spend the next year studying strategies to educate the public on the problems of chronic pain. He specializes in treating patients with chronic pain: spine pain (low back and neck pain), cancer pain, disc herniations and degenerative disc disease, neuropathic pain (reflex sympathetic dystrophy or complex regional pain syndrome), shingles pain (post herpetic neuralgia), thoracic outlet syndrome, and post surgical pain.
He has appeared as a guest on Dr. Mehmet Oz’s Oprah and Friends XM Satellite Radio Show as well as Retirement Living Television’s Healthline, hosted by Dr. Kevin Soden. He serves on the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Committee on Pain Medicine and the Association of Pain Program Directors. He recently earned an MBA from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.
Dr. Christo has published on such topics as the procedural elements of pain medicine, post herpetic neuralgia (shingles-related pain), opioid effectiveness in chronic pain, aging and addiction, and complex regional pain syndrome. He is currently involved in studying novel therapies for the treatment of chronic pain syndromes such as thoracic outlet syndrome.
