Daniel Pak, M.D.
Locations and Appointments
Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian at the Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Comprehensive Spine Care
Pain Management - Lower Manhattan
Insurances Accepted
Please contact the doctor's office to verify that your insurance is accepted.
- AETNA
- Aetna - NYP
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield Healthplus
- GHI
- Health Insurance Plan of NY (HIP)
- Oxford Health Plans
- United Healthcare
- VNSNY CHOICE
About Daniel Pak, M.D.
Dr. Daniel Pak is a double-board certified physician in anesthesiology and pain medicine who specializes in interventional pain management. His expertise is in the management of complex back/neck pain, sciatica, spinal stenosis, cancer pain, vertebral compression fractures, arthritis, and neuropathies. His clinical focus revolves around minimally invasive treatments, including injection therapies, vertebral augmentation, spinal cord stimulation, dorsal root ganglion (DRG) stimulation, intrathecal pump therapy, and the MILD© procedure (Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression). He has also published numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, and given national lectures on the topics of intrathecal pump therapy and neuromodulation.
Dr. Pak earned his medical degree from the University of Michigan and completed his residency in anesthesiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he was the recipient of the Sadel Wortis Klein Award for Excellence in Clinical Performance. He then completed a pain medicine fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and afterwards joined the pain faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where he served as the Director of the Intrathecal Drug Delivery Program and worked closely with patients at the Mass General Cancer Center. He also served as the Director of Resident Education in Pain Medicine and was given the Best Teaching Faculty award in 2019.
Currently, Dr. Pak is the Associate Program Director, Tri-Institutional Pain Fellowship and the Director of Practice Innovation for the Division of Pain Management.
Board Certifications
- Anesthesiology
- Pain Medicine
Expertise
Abdominal Pain
Arthritis
Back Pain
Botox Injection
Cancer Pain Management
Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
Chronic Pain Management
Chronic Pelvic Pain In Female
Compression Fracture of Spine
Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
Disorders of Shoulder and Knee Joints
Electrical Nerve Stimulation for Chronic Pain
Herniated Disc
Hip Pain
Intrathecal Pain Pump
Joint Injections
Joint Pain
Knee Pain
Kyphoplasty or Vertebroplasty
Kyphosis
Kyphosis Deformity of Spine
Low Back and Neck Pain
Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Male Pelvic Pain
Minimally Invasive Procedures For Back/Neck Pain
Neck Pain
Nerve Ablation for Chronic Pain
Neuropathic Pain
Non-Surgical Approach to Back Pain
Non-Surgical Spine Treatments
Pain Following Surgery or Procedure
Peripheral Neuropathy
Post-Mastectomy Pain Syndrome
Post-Thoracotomy Pain
Radiofrequency Ablation, Nerve, Spinal, Lumbar
Sciatica
Scoliosis
Scoliosis Deformity of Spine
Spinal Cord Stimulation
Spinal Injections
Spinal Stenosis
Spine Deformity
Spine Tumors
Education
Degrees: Duke University
Degrees: University of Michigan Medical School
Languages
- English
- Korean
Titles & Positions
Assistant Attending Anesthesiologist
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Hospital Affiliations
Och Spine At NewYork-Presbyterian
Education
- Degrees: Duke University
- Degrees: University of Michigan Medical School
Titles & Positions
- Assistant Attending Anesthesiologist
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Board Certifications
- Anesthesiology
- Pain Medicine
Languages Spoken
- English
- Korean