Academic Pain Medicine

Anatomy and Physiology: Mechanisms of Nociceptive Transmission.- Pharmacology of Pain Transmission and Modulation.- Development of Pain Systems.- Designing, Reporting, and Interpreting Clinical Research Studies about Treatments for Pain: Evidence-Based Medicine.- Animal Models of Pain and Ethics of Animal Experimentation.- Ethical Standards in Pain Management and Research.- Assessment and Psychology of Pain.- Placebo and Pain.- Clinical Nerve Function Studies and Imaging.- Epidemiology.- Psychosocial and Cultural Aspects of Pain.- Sex and Gender Issues in Pain.- Treatment of Pain: Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, adverse effects, drug interactions, and indications/contraindications.- Psychological Treatments.- Psychiatric Treatment.- Stimulation-Produced Analgesia.- Interventional Pain Management.- Surgical Pain Management.- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.- Taxonomy of Pain Systems.- Acute Pain.- Cancer Pain.- Cervical Radicular Pain.- Neck Pain.- Lumbar Radicular Pain.- Low Back Pain.- Musculoskeletal Pain.- Muscle and Myofascial Pain.

Yury Khelemsky, MD
Associate Professor Program Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Department of Neurology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY 10029
Anuj Malhotra, MD
Assistant Professor
Associate Program Director Pain Medicine Fellowship Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY 10029 Karina Gritsenko, MD Associate Professor Program Director, Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology Bronx, NY 10461

Anatomy and Physiology: Mechanisms of Nociceptive Transmission.- Pharmacology of Pain Transmission and Modulation.- Development of Pain Systems.- Designing, Reporting, and Interpreting Clinical Research Studies about Treatments for Pain: Evidence-Based Medicine.- Animal Models of Pain and Ethics of Animal Experimentation.- Ethical Standards in Pain Management and Research.- Assessment and Psychology of Pain.- Placebo and Pain.- Clinical Nerve Function Studies and Imaging.- Epidemiology.- Psychosocial and Cultural Aspects of Pain.- Sex and Gender Issues in Pain.- Treatment of Pain: Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, adverse effects, drug interactions, and indications/contraindications.- Psychological Treatments.- Psychiatric Treatment.- Stimulation-Produced Analgesia.- Interventional Pain Management.- Surgical Pain Management.- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.- Taxonomy of Pain Systems.- Acute Pain.- Cancer Pain.- Cervical Radicular Pain.- Neck Pain.- Lumbar Radicular Pain.- Low Back Pain.- Musculoskeletal Pain.- Muscle and Myofascial Pain.