Pain Fellowship Reviews

St. Luke's Roosevelt: most interventional and best program in the city; director is Dr. Ronny Hertz, who has been in practice for over 20 years. I felt extremely, extremely comfortable with Dr. Hertz; the conversation with him alone was enough for me to rank the program over all others in NYC. Dr. Hertz is the only full-time pain physician. There are 4-5 fellows per year and one C-arm. There are 3-4 fellows in clinic (2 in procedure room and 2 in new/follow-up visits) and one on inpatient service per week. SLR's numbers are ~ 30 stims and 30 pumps per year (stims are shared with neurosurgery) along with ~ 50 discs. Pain psych program just starting.

Columbia: gets bulk of applications based on the Ivy League name; will hire additional attending (who is completing his fellowship at Johns Hopkins at the moment), so that there'll be four pain physicians total. Dr. Michael Weinberger is the only full-time pain physician. Not very interventional ~ 3-4 minor fluoro procedures a day; two Columbia fellows per year alternate inpatient and clinic every two weeks with a Cornell/Sloan Kettering rotator. Really not enough procedures to go around, and procedures are mixed in with patient visits throughout the day. Obviously one C-arm only. Stim program getting off the ground with new neurosurgery attending, who is young and will let you operate as much as you want.

Cornell: also gets bulk of applications based on Ivy League name; part of the quad-institutional fellowship. Heard that 3 of 4 fellows dropped out last year. Not very interventional; in fact, the fellows have to rotate at Columbia, HSS, Cornell, and Sloan Kettering. The 3 months at HSS is the best thing about the program. (The 3 months at Sloan Kettering gets you negative points in the intervention dept, but that's just my opinion.)

St. Vincents: director there graduated from BID two years ago; they are moderately interventional, with apparently excellent IT integration and implementation in the pain clinics. Fellows are reasonably happy (I would too, if I were working near Greenwich Village/SOHO with affordable housing.)

NYU and Mt. Sinai: don't know much about, and will refrain from commenting

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Pain Fellowship Reviews