Dr. Jessica Jameson

Dr. Jameson received her medical degree from Michigan State University. Upon graduation, she went on to complete her internship at David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base in California. She then spent four years as a United States Air Force Flight Surgeon.

Dr. Jameson completed her residency in anesthesia at the University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa City. She then furthered her training by graduating from a Harvard Fellowship in Pain Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. She is board certified in both anesthesiology and pain management by the American Board of Anesthesiology. This is the only recognized board certification for pain management through the American Board of Medical Specialties. Dr Jameson is also the only physician in North Idaho who is board certified in obesity medicine. She is on numerous international committees in the field of pain management and has published articles and developed national curriculum related to interventional pain management. She serves on the board of the American Society for Interventional Pain Physician, Women in Neuromodulation, Idaho Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and is a founder of The Society for Women Innovators in Pain Management. She is actively involved in clinical research serving as the principal investigator for multiple randomized controlled trials.

Dr. Jameson has been a valuable asset and member of the community since 2013 and is proud to be the co-founder of Axis Spine Center.

Dr. Helen Blake

Dr. Helen Blake is an Interventional Pain Physician and best-selling author of the book “Move Freely: Get Your Life Back After Injury.” She is board certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Management. Her compassionate, patient-centered, comprehensive pain management techniques help her patients manage their pain and minimize their dependence on medications. She strives to give her patients the results they need to live their best life.

Dr. Blake is empathetic, passionate, and inspiring to her patients and staff alike. Her Fellowship training at the Hospital for Special Surgery (Premier Orthopedic Hospital) gave her advanced training in the evaluation of musculoskeletal complaints and sports injuries but it’s her interest in moving knowledge further with continuing education and the relentless study of cutting edge therapies that sets her apart from her peers.

Dr. Jacqueline Weisbein

Dr. Jacqueline Weisbein is a board-certified, fellowship-trained Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine specializing in pain management. She is dually board certified in pain management and physical medicine and rehabilitation. Dr. Weisbein has a profound dedication to improving patients’ quality of life utilizing comprehensive care plans. She is a leader in the field of Interventional Pain Medicine with particular interests in neuropathic pain syndromes, sports injuries, and implantable devices. In her spare time, she actively competes her horses in Dressage. She lives and works in Napa, Ca.

Dr. Lisa Kroopf

Lisa R. Kroopf, MD, is a Fellowship-Trained Interventional Pain Physician in Northern California, who has dual board certifications in Pain Medicine and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. She completed her PM&R Residency and Pain Fellowship at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Dr. Kroopf is dedicated to whole-person care, utilizing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of chronic pain conditions. She has special interests in neuromodulation and minimally-invasive surgical and non-surgical techniques to alleviate acute and chronic pain. Dr. Kroopf is passionate about physician education, mentorship, and advocacy within the field of Pain Management. She holds leadership positions in the Pacific Spine and Pain Society and the North American Neuromodulation Society’s Women in Neuromodulation. She is a founding member of the Society of Women Innovators in Pain Management and Pacific Spine and Pain Society. In her leisure time, she enjoys travel, fitness, snowboarding, and coaching her son's basketball team.

IN LOVING MEMORY

Dr. Lisa Stearns

Dr. Lisa Stearns, Founder and Medical Director of Center for Pain and Supportive Care, is a leading expert in interventional therapy for cancer pain and is internationally renowned for her research and expertise with intrathecal pumps. Dr. Stearns is committed to educating patients and healthcare professionals about the most effective pain management and supportive care techniques. Upon receiving her medical degree from the University of Nebraska in 1991 and completing her residency in anesthesiology and her fellowship in pain management, Dr. Stearns became one of only a handful of interventional pain specialists to focus her practice on palliative medicine.

 In 2007 when Dr. Stearns founded Center for Pain and Supportive Care (CPSC) in Phoenix Arizona, she set out to tackle what she saw as fragmented and narrow care for patients with chronic pain. Dr. Stearns has diligently worked to create a diverse team of providers, including specialists in cancer-related and chronic pain, supportive care, advanced therapies, interventional pain management, yoga rehabilitation, and medication management, among others. She has sought out talented clinicians whose values naturally follow CPSC's mission of restoring a patient's life by providing the most advanced pain management treatments through a whole-person approach to care.

 Dr. Stearns has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles on pain management and palliative care and is actively involved in research at both the early development and late clinical trial stages. She is frequently a featured speaker at national and international conferences in her field; she has an adjunct faculty appointment at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine where she trains pain management and palliative fellows and preceptor for Midwestern University medical students and allied health professionals. In all her work, Dr. Stearns seeks to raise awareness that pain management can "build a bridge back to life."

After watching both of her grandmothers pass away from cancer, Dr. Stearns has experienced first-hand that many chronic pain and cancer patients do not receive the proper care they need and often feel neglected throughout the treatment process. Dr. Stearns has made it her life's work to improve her patients’ function and overall quality of life, caring not only for her patients but their families and caregivers as well. Her practice is unique in that she treats the whole person by teaching them how to build healthy behaviors in all aspects of their lives: physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychological.

 Dr. Stearns founded the Valley Cancer Pain Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated solely to cancer pain research, to raise awareness and to educate families, patients and providers on integrating interventional pain treatments. She is also a co-founder and executive committee member of the Cancer Pain Research Consortium, a group of doctors from across the world working to find the latest and best treatments for cancer-related pain.

https://cancerpainresearch.com/news-6-1-2020-stearns/

Dr. Maricela (Madi) Schnur

Dr. Maricela Schnur is fellowship trained practicing chronic pain physician based out of Duluth, MN. She earned her bachelor’s degree from NYU and her medical degree from Weill-Cornell Medical College. After taking care of a sick family member during medical school she realized she needed further training in finance and accounting and obtained her MBA from the Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. During that time she interned at Welch-Allyn. After medical school she traveled to Boston for residency training in anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital. During her time there she presented at several conferences and was a lead editor of a book titled, “ Anesthesia Review: 1000 Questions and Answers to Blast the BASIC and Ace the ADVANCED.” She is a recent graduate of the chronic pain fellowship program at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester Campus and practices at a hospital based practice, St. Luke's Hospital.

Dr. Tammy Dann

I knew early on in my schooling that I wanted to be a pain physician and wanted to be able to provide my future patients with a well rounded approach to managing their pain. After attending medical school at the founding Osteopathic Medical School in Kirksville, Missouri, I completed an anesthesiology and critical care residency at St. Louis University, followed by an Interventional Pain Management fellowship at the University of Iowa. Prior to attending medical school I also obtained a Masters’ Degree in Public Health from the University of Minnesota.

I am currently board certified in anesthesiology and critical care as well as interventional pain management by the American Board of Anesthesiology. I have thus been provided with the tools to treat pain with a combination of osteopathic manipulation, injections, implantable therapies and medications. I am specifically interested in treatments for chronic regional pain syndrome, as well as management of implantable therapies including nerve stimulators and pain pumps. I have given lectures at national conferences and am involved with various anesthesia and pain societies in order to remain well versed in the best and most beneficial pain treatments for my patients.

In my free time, I enjoy volunteering at my children’s schools, running and spending time with my husband, four children, dog and two cats.

Dr. Kiran V. Patel

Kiran V. Patel, MD, is an Interventional Pain Management Physician practicing in New York City holding board certifications in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.  Dr. Patel’s areas of interest include pre and post-surgical spine pain, pelvic pain, facial pain and neuromodulation.  Dr. Patel earned her medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.  Thereafter, she completed a residency in Anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center-Presbyterian Hospital followed by a Pain Medicine fellowship at the same institution.  After graduating from her fellowship, Dr. Patel joined the Spine & Pain Institute of New York, where she continues to practice. 

In addition, Dr. Patel is the Director of Neurosurgical Pain at Lenox Hill Hospital and oversees the acute and chronic inpatient pain services.  Dr Patel is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell.  Dr. Patel currently oversees the Pain Medicine rotation for the Hofstra Anesthesiology residency program and has been named the Director for the Hofstra Pain Medicine fellowship.  

Prior to starting medical school, Dr. Patel worked as a biomedical engineering research assistant at the John’s Hopkins Center for Robotic Surgery, developing 3D reconstructive software for robotic command and haptic surgical instruments for both patient care and physician training. Dr. Patel has contributed to education in neuromodulation by participating as faculty for various training courses and contributing to neuromodulation textbooks.  Dr. Patel’s ongoing clinical research in the areas of pelvic pain, facial pain and dorsal root ganglion stimulation, have resulted in featured abstracts at various national and international meetings.

Dr. Patel was among the initiative to establish the Women in Neuromodulation section of NANS.She currently serves at the secretary for the WIN section and leads the New York/New Jersey chapter of WIN. She is also an active participant in the NANS mentorship program.

Dr. Suzanne Manzi

Born and raised at the Jersey Shore, Dr. Suzanne Manzi played NCAA Division 1 Basketball for the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). She completed her residency at Baylor College of Medicine/ UT Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) Alliance in 2009, followed by a fellowship at Michigan State University and Lansing Orthopedics in 2010, encompassing Interventional Spine, Electrodiagnostic Medicine and Pain Management.

 Dr. Manzi serves as Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School. She opened a state-of-the-art practice in June 2016, Performance Pain and Sports Medicine, in Houston, Texas.  Her practice offers a multitude of pain management procedures, along with physical therapy, regenerative medicine, and wellness, offering patients a full one-stop shop for all their needs.  Her practice is also accredited with exemplary status with the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM).  She holds current board certifications in PM&R, Electrodiagnostic Medicine and Pain Management. 

 Dr. Manzi has been voted “Houston’s Top Doctors” by Houstonia magazine for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. She has also been selected as “Top 3 Pain Management Doctors” in Houston, Texas in 2018.  Her goals are to continue to optimize patient's function and decrease pain after any setback utilizing her advanced training and diagnostic skills. She loves educating and collaborating with colleagues to enhance patient outcomes and is working on numerous research projects.  Serving as a consultant for various companies, she also educates fellows and other physicians around the country on interventional pain procedures.

 In her free time, Dr. Manzi enjoys exercising, SCUBA diving, snow skiing, reading and traveling around the world, visiting friends and family.  2019 was an eventful year, as she and Glen Fichardt welcomed a Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy, Kali Rose, and a baby boy, Rhys Manzi Fichardt, into their lives. 

Dr. Jordan Lee Tate

Dr. Jordan Lee Tate MD, MPH is an Interventional Chronic Pain Medicine specialist who dedicates herself to comprehensive, holistic care for her patients. She specializes in advanced neuromodulation techniques and focuses on rehabilitation with non-surgical procedures to alleviate pain. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with focused study on Neuroscience and earned her medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Tate obtained a Master’s degree in Health Education from Rollins School of Public Health at the CDC where she dedicated her thesis work to initial research on clinical opioid use, misuse, and diversion. After a residency program in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Emory, she completed her fellowship in Pain Medicine at The Mayo Clinic. As an active clinician, researcher, and busy mom of three, Dr. Tate is also passionate about traveling, education, and wellness. She practices in North Georgia at Alliance Spine and Pain Centers and directs several research projects on Spinal Cord Stimulation and runs a subspecialty clinic on Chronic Pelvic Pain.