Naum Shaparin, MD

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Chronic Pain Pain Medicine

Vice Chair Business Affairs & Director Multidisciplinary Pain Program
Professor of Anesthesiology Family & Social Medicine and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Professor, Department of Family and Social Medicine
Professor, The Arthur S. Abramson Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Vice Chair, Business Affairs, Department of Anesthesiology
Director of Pain Services at Montefiore Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology

Area of Expertise

Non-opioid Chronic Pain Therapies

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Expert Summary

Dr. Shaparin and his team create individualized treatment plans for patients with all types of chronic pain. Dr. Shaparin’s research interests include non-opioid therapies for chronic non-malignant pain, the role of regional anesthesia in arteriovenous fistula creation, coccydynia (tail bone pain), neuropathic pain in scar tissue after surgical incisions, neuropathic pain related to cancer (in particular chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuralgia/neuropathy), neuropathic pain related to HIV/AIDS or HIV/AIDS medications, vulvodynia/perineal pain, post-thoracotomy pain, neck/back pain, sacroiliac joint pain, radiofrequency ablation, and neuromodulation. Dr. Shaparin has presented over 20 abstracts at local, national and international conferences.