Specialty
Interventional Pain Managment
Education
University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN
Post Graduate Education
Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN - Anesthesiology
Academic Appointments
Assistant Clinical Professor - Department of Anesthesiology - University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI
Assistant Clinical Professor - School of Nursing - University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI
Board Certification(s)
American Board of Anesthesiology - 1987
Diplomat of American Academy of Pain Management - 1992
Diplomat of AmericanBoard of Pain Medicine - 1994
American Board of Anesthesiology, Subspecialty Board in Pain Management - 1994
Recertification in Subspecialty Board in Pain Management - 2005
Subspecialty - Pain Management
Medical Director, Pain Clinic of Northwestern Wisconsin 1989 - Present
Expertise in intraspinal and extraspinal diagnostic and therapeutic radiographic guided techniques
Expertise in implantation of intraspinal devices for pain control, including spinal cord stimulators and infusion pumps, in particular for cancer pain management and for spasticity
Professional Societies
Past President, International Spinal Intervention Society
Past Chairman, International Spinal Intervention Society Education Committee
American Academy of Pain Medicine
American Medical Society
Involvement in Medical Education
Instructor, International Spinal Intervention Society - Course instruction internationally for the last fifteen years in all aspects in diagnostic intraspinal and extraspinal diagnostic and therapeutic radiographic techniques
Publications
Clinical Anatomy of the Lumbar Spine & Sacrum 4e, Foreword by Stephen Endres. Elsevier: Sydney. 2005.
Practice Guidelines: Spinal Diagnostic & Treatment Procedures; "Lumbar Disc Stimulation (Provocation Discography)". International Spinal Intervention Society, 2004.
International Spinal Injection Society Standards and Protocols, "Lumbar Discography Standards", February 2002
Wisconsin Medical Journal, "Effectiveness of Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy in Increasing Function and Reducing Chronic Low Back Pain in Selected Patients", volume 101, No. 1 2002.