Sayed Emal Wahezi
Montefiore Medical Center, USA
Biography
Dr. Wahezi currently serves as Assistant Professor at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City and is the Program Director of the ACGME accredited Interventional Pain Fellowship. He has created a fellowship with an interventional focus and multidisciplinary foundation. His mission is to create an academic environment which fosters the growth of Interventional Pain through the investigation and development of new devices and techniques. Dr. Wahezi has authored more than thirty publications in peer reviewed pain journals, book chapters, abstracts, and posters, and has presented at national meetings. He is actively involved in several basic science and clinical studies in Interventional Pain management. His basic science interests include the development of animal models for pain and physiology of neuropathic pain. His clinical research interests include innovative percutaneous pain treatments.