Education & Publications

Residency in Internal Medicine, La Guardia Hospital, Cornell Medical Center 1986-1989
Pain Management Fellowship, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1989-1990
Residency in Anesthesia, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1992-1996

Certifications
Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine
Diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology
Diplomat of the American Board of Pain Management

Memberships
Member of International Society for the Study of Pain
Member of the International Spinal Injection Society
Diplomat, American Academy of Pain Management

Select Publications
Ordia, J.I., Vaisman, J.: Subcutaneous Peripheral Nerve Stimulation With Paddle Lead for Treatment of Low Back pain: Case report. J Neuromodulation, Vo.l 12; No. 3, 2009

Polymethylmetacrylate -filled needle track three weeks after percutaneous vertebroplasty published in Pain Physicians, the official publication of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians 2004

Refractory episodic cluster headache response to percutaneous cervical zygapophyseal radiofrequency ablation: a case report, published in HEADACHE: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, the official, peer-reviewed journal of the American Headache Society, 2002

Interventional Pain Management: Interventional techniques for the alleviation of pain in the care of HIV - infected patients, a chapter in the book Pain Management, Anesthesia and HIV / AIDS, edited by Srdjan S. Nedeljkovic, and published by Butterworth - Heinemann, 2001

Pelvic Hematoma after an Illioinguinal Block for Orchialgia published in Anesthesia & Analgesia, the official publication of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) 2001

Pulse Radiofrequency: a new and ingenious modality for pain management, published in the New England Pain Association Newsletter, Vol. 4, Issue 2, September 1999

Regression of Sensory Anesthesia During Continuous Epidural Infusion of Bupivacaine and Opioid for the Total Knee Replacement, published in Anesthesia and Analgesia, 1993

Acupuncture Obstetric Analgesia, published in the Manual of Obstetric Anesthesia, edited by G.W. Ostheimer, Churchill-Livingstone, 2nd edition, 1992

Painful Rheumatoid Arthritis Care, curriculum for professional education published in PAIN, the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), 1991