Description
Interventions for Sacroiliac Pain
•Patient Selection and SI Joint Injections – Steven P. Cohen MD
•RF Ablation – David Edwards MD PhD
•Advanced Treatments For Sacroiliac Joint Pain – Puneet Mishra MD
Contributors
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Steven P. Cohen, MD
Session Director
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Dr. Cohen obtained his medical degree at Mount Sinai, completed an anesthesiology residency at Columbia, and a pain fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a professor of anesthesiology neurology and physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Uniformed Services University. He is also chief of pain medicine and director of the Blaustein Pain Treatment Center at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Cohen has been active in teaching and pain research, having published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Among his major contributions are the development of an FDA-approved denervation technique for treating sacroiliac joint pain, helping set up the first pain clinic in a war zone, performing the first studies evaluating the epidural administration of biological agents for pain, serving as the Senior Investigator on the Congressionally-mandated study evaluating compounded topical creams for chronic pain, serving as committee chair for the ASRA/AAPM/ASA ketamine guidelines for pain management, and conducting research on facet arthropathy and epidural steroid injections that has changed the way the conditions are viewed and treated.
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David A. Edwards, MD PhD
Dr. Edwards is Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine at Vanderbilt. His approach to the treatment of pain and the opioid epidemic is to use the best evidence where available and to assist in the generation of evidence where it is not. Dr. Edwards collaborates with Dr. Ranapurwala on the epidemiology of the opioid epidemic as measured through big data at Vanderbilt, UNC, and Duke as well as the departments of health of each state. The effect of state laws on prescribing and opioid-related deaths is an outcome of interest in their research.
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Puneet Mishra, MD, BS
Dr. Mishra is the Director of Research, Division of Pain Medicine, and Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at Vanderbilt Health. He earned his BS at Vanderbilt University and MD from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. In addition both his residency and fellowship were completed at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Mishra is board certified in Pain Medicine and Anesthesiology by the American Board of Anesthesiology.