Pain Fellowship
Welcome to the Fellowship Training Program in Pain Medicine at the University of California Irvine Medical Center. The Pain Medicine training program at UCI is the first of its kind. Ours is a one year ACGME accredited program that is directed by both Anesthesiology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation leadership at the same time. Truly interdisciplinary, you will become an expert at interventional pain management, opioid and adjunctive medication management, as well as non-interventional pain management. Personalized physical and occupational therapy, offloading therapy, electro-acupuncture, electrodiagnostics, psychological / cognitive therapies, and regional anesthesia are common treatment modalities used at UCI. You will be well prepared to treat patients holistically!
UCI has ACGME accredited residency training programs in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurology, Anesthesiology, Radiology and Psychiatry and a progressive Palliative Care division. With a renewed focus on multi-specialty training, each Fellow will rotate through rehabilitation medicine, anesthesiology, neuroradiology, palliative care, neurology, and psychiatry.
In the Division of Pain Medicine, we employ our own nationally renowned pain psychologist. As a level I trauma center, a stroke center and the only academic pain program in Orange County, we guarantee your Fellowship training will be nothing short of excellent.
The University of California Irvine Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care has had several changes in the past year with the addition of a new Chair, Dr. Zeev Kain, recruited from Yale University. With a rigorous restructuring of the department, the Pain Medicine Fellowship has also been reconstructed.
The leadership team includes Dr. Justin Hata, Director of Pain Medicine, and Dr. Danielle Perret, Director of the Fellowship Training Program in Pain Medicine. Both trained in rehabilitation medicine and attended ACGME sponsored Anesthesiology-based Pain Medicine fellowships. Having been trainees themselves under both Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Anesthesiology departments, they understand the challenges of integrating the fields. At UCI, fellows will also train under several excellent anesthesiology-based pain physicians including Dr. Cecil DeSilva, Dr. O. Jameson Stokes, and Dr. Jane Ahn. In addition, Dr. Ahn runs a blossoming Acute Pain Service that will provide fellows exposure to a high volume and a large variety of ultrasound guided nerve blocks. Our department is integrated with the Long Beach Veterans Affairs Hospital, with the Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) and sponsors a clinical pediatric pain laboratory (Dr. Zeev Kain) and a basic pain research laboratory (Dr. Z. David Luo).
Our program has historically trained a dual-team of one Anesthesiology and one Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Fellow per year. The Fellows have worked extremely well together; teaching each other their unique perspective on diagnosis and treatment in the field of pain medicine based on their training in their respective fields.
Imagine a program with two Fellows, one anesthesiology trained and one Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation trained. Imagine a program directed by Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation trained interventional physiatrists and sponsored by an Anesthesiology department. Imagine Fellow education with equal emphasis and equal attending instruction on anesthesiology-based and rehabilitation medicine-based pain medicine. Imagine competency in basic and advanced interventional techniques, medical pain management, musculoskeletal ultrasound, electro diagnostics, spasticity management, psychological management (including cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation therapies) with training in personalized occupational and physical therapy prescription writing, the use of the physical modalities, exercise techniques, acupuncture, prosthetics, orthotics and even regional anesthesiology techniques. The future is here.
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For more information, please email Adrian Rodriguez at aprodrig@uci.edu.
