Undergraduate School

B.A., Hampshire College, Amherst MA 1982

Medical School

M.D., University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester MA 1990

Internship

Internal Medicine, Greenwich Hospital, Yale University, New Haven CT 1990-1991

Residency

Internal Medicine, Greenwich Hospital, Yale University, New Haven CT 1991-1993

Residency

Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 1993-1996

Fellowship

Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge MA 1993-1995

America's Top Doctors, Castle Connolly, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Department Mentoring Director Award, UC Davis Health Mentoring Academy, 2017

American Pain Society Elizabeth Narcessian Award for Outstanding Educational Achievements in the Field of Pain, 2015

National Center of Excellence in Pain Management by the American Pain Society awarded to UC Davis Pain Clinic, 2015

Recognition and Appreciation Award, Medical Board of California Enforcement Program, 2013

Public Service Award, University of California, Davis, 2013

Distinguished Service Award, Federation of State Medical Board, 2013

America's Top Doctors, US News and World Report, 2011

Distinguished Service Award from American Academy of Pain Medicine, 2010

Fishman SM, Carr DB, Hogans B, Cheatle M, Gallagher RM, Katzman J, Mackey S, Polomano R, Popescu A, Rathmell JP, Rosenquist RW, Tauben D, Beckett L, Li Y, Mongoven JM, Young HM. Scope and Nature of Pain- and Analgesia-related Content of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). Pain Medicine. 2018;1-11.

Jones JH, Singh N, Nidecker A, Li C-S, Fishman SM. Assessing the Agreement Between Radiologic and Clinical Measurements of Lumbar and Cervical Epidural Depths in Patients Undergoing Prone Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injection. Anesthesia and Analgesia. 2017;124(5):1678-1685.

Macres S, Moore PG, Fishman SM. Acute Pain Management: Chapter 55, Barash PG, Cullen BF, Stoelting RK, Cahalan MK, Stock MC, Ortega R, Sharar SR, Holt NF, (ed), Clinical Anesthesia: Eighth Edition, Wolters Kluwer/ Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA. 2017;1562-1606.

Fishman SM, Young HM. Driving Needed Change in Pain Education. Pain Medicine. 2016;17:1790-1792.

Solberg J, Copenhaver D, Fishman SM. Medial branch nerve block and ablation as a novel approach to pain related to vertebral compression fracture. Current Opinion in Anesthesiology. 2016;29(5):596-9.

Fishman SM. Responsible Opioid Prescribing, 2nd edition, Federation of State Medical Boards, Dallas, TX. 2014.

Cortazzo M, Copenhaver DJ, Fishman SM. Opioids, Pain Management and the Law, Benzon N, (ed), Practical Management of Pain 5th Edition, Mosby, Baltimore, MD. 2013.

Pricket W, Copenhaver D, Fishman SM. Legal and Regulatory Considerations in Opioid Prescribing, Ries R, Fiellin D, Miller S, Saitz R, (ed), Principles of Addiction Medicine 5th Edition, American Society of Addiction Medicine and Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA. 2013.

Fishman SM. Listening to Pain. Republished by Oxford University Press, New York, NY. 2012.