Daniel Pak, M.D.

Daniel Pak, M.D. Specialties: Pain Medicine/Management, Sports Medicine, Pain Medicine, Pain Management, Interventional Pain Management

Daniel Pak, M.D.
Specialties: Pain Medicine/Management, Sports Medicine, Pain Medicine, Pain Management, Interventional Pain Management
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156 William Street
11th Floor
New York, NY 10038
US
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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.


Hospital Affiliations

  • Och Spine At NewYork-Presbyterian

Expertise

  • Abdominal Pain

  • Arthritis

  • 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

  • Hip Pain

  • Intrathecal Pain Pump

  • Joint Injections

  • Joint Pain

  • Knee Pain

  • Kyphoplasty or Vertebroplasty

  • Low Back and Neck Pain

  • Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

  • Male Pelvic Pain

  • Minimally Invasive Procedures For Back/Neck Pain

  • Nerve Ablation for Chronic Pain

  • Neuropathic Pain

  • Non-Surgical Approach to Back Pain

  • Pain Following Surgery or Procedure

  • Peripheral Neuropathy

  • Post-Mastectomy Pain Syndrome

  • Post-Thoracotomy Pain

  • Radiofrequency Ablation, Nerve, Spinal, Lumbar

  • Spinal Cord Stimulation

  • Spinal Injections

Education

  • Degrees: Duke University
  • Degrees: University of Michigan Medical School

Board Certifications

  • Anesthesiology
  • Pain Medicine