Daniel Pak, M.D.
Daniel Pak, M.D.

Daniel Pak, M.D.

Pain Medicine/Management
Specialties
Pain Medicine/Management, Sports Medicine, Pain Medicine, Pain Management, Interventional Pain Management, more

Locations and Appointments


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Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian at the Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Comprehensive Spine Care

240 East 59th Street
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10022
US
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  • 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

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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
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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

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Education

  • Degrees: Duke University

  • Degrees: University of Michigan Medical School

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Languages

  • English
  • Korean
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Titles & Positions

  • Assistant Attending Anesthesiologist

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology

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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