Stony Brook University Department of Anesthesiology
Residency Program

Chronic Pain (Division of Pain Management)




Brian Durkin, DO
Director of the Center for Pain Management

With a reputation as a leading authority on pain management, the Center for Pain Management at Stony Brook University Medical Center has served Long Island since 1982. Our program uses the biopsychosocial model of medicine to treat chronic and acute pain, provide palliative care, and improve the functionality and quality of life of our patients. We work in partnership with area physicians to offer consultations, diagnoses, plans of treatment and multidisciplinary care before returning the patient to his or her primary care doctor.

The Center, located within Stony Brook’s Cancer Center, and adjacent to the hospital, offers state of the art facilities, an in-office procedure suite for interventional pain management procedures such as fluoroscopic and ultrasound-guided nerve blocks, infusion therapies, and access to Stony Brook’s wide range of resources and technology. We perform about 2000 procedures per year in our state-of-the-art fluoroscopy suite. We do Interlaminar and transforaminal epidural steroid injections, facet joint blocks and injections, intercostal nerve blocks, stellate ganglion blocks, and lumbar sympathetic blocks on a daily basis. We are one of the few Pain Centers around the country to utilize ultrasound-guided nerve blocks.

Division Members

Brian Durkin, DO is Director of the Center for Pain Management. He leads a team of specialists who treat a wide variety of pain conditions. Dr. Durkin’s primary focus is on interventional treatment for chronic and acute pain conditions.  <read more>

Carole Agin, MD has been named one of the Best Doctors in Pain Management in the New York area by New York Magazine annually since 1998.

Irina Lokshina, MD.

Farrokh Maneksha, MD.

Christopher Page, MD.

Julie Scheuermann, NP.

Stacey Hildebrand, NP.

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Residency Training

We welcome interns, residents and fellows from not only the Department of Anesthesiology and the Dental Anesthesiology Program, but also multiple diverse fields such as radiology, neurology, physical medicine & rehabilitation and psychiatry.

Rotations are offered in two-week or four-week blocks and are part of the core curriculum for Anesthesiology residents.  The first exposure occurs during the clinical base year when the intern spends two weeks of their pain rotation month at the Center.  The CA-2 year is the next opportunity for residents to improve their skills in the management of chronic pain.  Residents will have a four-week rotation that will entail hands-on management of pain by interventional therapies, medication management and complementary techniques.  The CA-3 year normally allows for an elective rotation for those interested in advanced learning with an eye towards a pain medicine fellowship.

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