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Director of the Center for Rehabilitation of Pain Syndromes (CRPS) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he is also a member of the departments of internal medicine and anesthesiology. He is also president of the North American Neuromodulation Society.
Combining his business and medical training, Dr. Prager managed approximately 500,000 patient lives at CIGNA Health Plans and also founded the Multimodality Pain Program. He then directed the UCLA Pain Medicine Center until he established the California Pain Medicine Centers. His clinical and research practice focuses on complex regional pain syndromes and neuromodulation. He has participated in numerous studies related to spinal cord stimulation, intrathecal medications (including ziconotide), and patient programming. He has also conducted research related to several opioids, high-dose capsaicin, and tumor necrosis factor for treatment of complex regional pain syndrome.
Dr. Prager feels that public service is an important component of his career. He helped to establish or reorganize several inner city health centers, provided internal medicine care at the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco, California, and provided anesthesia for third world children with congenital anomalies undergoing corrective surgery. He has held numerous positions in medical organizations. Most recently, Dr. Prager organized the first meeting of a coalition of pain organizations and all 3 manufacturers of spinal cord stimulator systems to collaborate on issues of patient access and reimbursement for neuromodulatory procedures. One goal is to perform studies that will produce evidence-based data to demonstrate the efficacy of these modalities.
Dr. Prager received his MD and a MS in management/heath services research from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He is board certified by the American Board of Pain Medicine, the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the American Board of Anesthesiology, with a subspecialty affiliation in pain medicine.
Daniel I. Silvershein, MD, is a clinical professor of general internal medicine at the New York University Medical Center in New York City. He is a graduate of the 6-year accelerated BA/MD program at Boston University School of Medicine in Massachusetts. He completed his residency at the New York University Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital Center.
Dr Silvershein has been in practice since 1996 and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a member of the American College of Physicians and the American Society of Hypertension.
Dr Silvershein is involved in the clinical education of residents, students, and nurse practitioners, and serves as an adjunct professor of medicine at New York University’s School of Nursing. He has also been an investigator in multiple clinical trials exploring infectious and cardiovascular diseases.
Douglas Schottenstein, MD, opened his own private practice so that he could deliver the highest quality of care in an advanced, self-contained center. He is one of only 200 physicians in the nation who is double-board certified in neurology and interventional pain management.
Dr Schottenstein and his expert staff at NY Spine Medicine treat patients suffering from a variety of acute and chronic painful conditions. Dr Schottenstein performs a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and surgeries, including epidurals, transforaminal nerve blocks, sympathetic blocks, facet and sacroiliac joint injections, radiofrequency lesioning, provocative discography, annuloplasty, nucleoplasty, spinal cord stimulation, and intrathecal pumps.
Dr Schottenstein received his interventional pain management training at Columbia University/New York Presbyterian Hospital, rated one of the top five hospitals in the nation. He received his neurology training at Emory University, the highest ranked department in the South, and one of the leading programs in the nation.
In addition to leading NY Spine Medicine, Dr Schottenstein is an attending physician at New York Presbyterian-affiliated hospitals, the top-rated hospital system in the region.
Dr Schottenstein is a highly active member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Society of Anesthesiology, the American Society of Regional Anesthesia, the International Spine Intervention Society, and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.
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