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Daniel J. Pak, MD, is a double board-certified and fellowship-trained anesthesiology and pain medicine physician specializing 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, peripheral nerve stimulation, and the minimally invasive lumbar decompression (MILD) procedure. He has also published numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and has given national lectures on the topic of chronic pain management.
Pak is also an associate professor of anesthesiology and the associate chief of chronic pain services at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.
Pak received his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed his residency in anesthesiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medicine, where he received the Sadel Wortis Klein Award for Excellence in Clinical Performance. He then completed a pain medicine fellowship at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Prior to joining UTHealth Houston, Pak was on faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Weill Cornell Medicine, where he was awarded multiple faculty teaching awards.
