A Welcome Message From Fellowship Director Scott Pritzlaff, M.D.
Dear Prospective Applicant,
Thank you for your interest in our program. The UC Davis Division of Pain Medicine is an advanced center for the evaluation and treatment of all forms of pain. The Pain Medicine Fellowship has a tradition of providing fellows in training with the broadest experience in pain medicine, including appropriate applications of traditional and novel analgesics and state-of-the-art interventional procedures. We offer world-class education and training through mentorship, research and clinical care.
The UC Davis Pain Fellowship is an innovative and cutting-edge training program. You can expect:
- Participation limited to six pain medicine Fellows, with a start date of August 1. We participate in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). This one-year intensive training program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and board-certified.
- Comprehensive education and training in pain medicine through mentorship, research and clinical care.
- Eight interventional pain attendings, two pain psychology specialists, two pain pharmacists, two acupuncturists, and two private practice adjunct faculty.
- Approximately 25 weeks of procedures with neuromodulation exposure including dorsal root ganglion (DRG) stimulation, spinal cord stimulation (SCS) and peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS). The robust ultrasound curriculum includes procedures at three clinical sites including prolotherapy, large joint injections and nerve blocks.
- Recent approval for three advanced minimally invasive spine (MIS) procedures including indirect spinal decompression, basivertebral nerve ablation and nucleus pulposus tissue allograft injections.
- Cancer pain exposure including regular rotations at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center and intrathecal pump implantation and management.
- In-house cadaver skills workshops for UC Davis Pain Medicine attendings and fellows three to four times per year.
- Ongoing active IRB research, including neuromodulation patient selection, virtual reality applications, knee osteoarthritis, and low back pain PET imaging.
We look forward to reviewing your application. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Scott Pritzlaff, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor
Program Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
University of California, Davis