Clinical Pain Medicine Fellowship

The Stanford Division of Pain Medicine offers a world-class ACGME-approved clinical pain medicine fellowship. This fellowship program focuses on comprehensive, interdisciplinary, collaborative training in and treatment of acute, chronic, and cancer pain. Fellows learn and practice the medical, interventional, physical and behavioral aspects of pain medicine so that upon graduation, they will be successful pain medicine physicians in both academic and community practices.

The specialty of Pain Medicine has experienced remarkable growth and change over the last several decades. Stanford has been at the forefront of these changes from clinical, educational and research perspectives. To treat chronic pain, Stanford employs state-of the-art, interventional therapies – implantable spinal cord stimulators, radio-frequency ablation, fluoroscopic and ultrasound-guided procedures, and intrathecal drug-delivery systems. Within the western United States, Stanford is fortunate to have the only inpatient, academic, chronic pain medicine unit, able to care for the most complex pain patients. 

Our aim is to provide our fellows with the most rewarding fellowship experience possible. In addition to pursuing our core pain medicine training, fellows are provided with protected academic time during fellowship. Whether you are interested in academics, community practice, industry, or policy and administration, fellows can work with the program director, full-time and volunteer clinical faculty and various departments throughout Stanford to cultivate their interests and develop their professional goals. Highlights of the Stanford Pain Medicine fellowship include:

• Stanford Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Pain Program (SCIPP) – only med-behavioral inpatient unit of its kind in the western United States
• Faculty consisting of anesthesiology, PM&R, neurology, and dentistry, along with complex case managers, pain physical therapists and pain psychologists housed in the same outpatient center
• Subspecialty clinics allow fellows to have a more in depth experience with a variety of pain issues including, headache, orofacial pain, pelvic pain, spine, GI, and addiction medicine. 
• Faculty with experience in industry and policy, highlights including:
• Dr. Sean Mackey – Co-Chair of the Oversight Committee for the NIH/Health and Human Services National Pain Strategy, former president of AAPM
• Dr. Michael Leong – served as research director and medical director  was several companies and former Mayday Fellow; current Director of Neuromodulation for Stanford Pain Management
• Dr. Vanilla Singh - Chief Medical Officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

• Headache (Collaboration with Neurology)
• Orofacial Pain (Collaboration with Dentistry, ENT, Neurology, Neurosurgery)
• Pelvic Pain (Collaboration with Urology)
• Abdominal/GI Pain (collaboration with Gastroenterology)
• Neurospine and Neuromodulation (Collaboration with Neurosurgery)
• Pain and Addiction (Collaboration with Psychiatry)