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Dr. Christopher Gharibo MD

Professor of Anesthesiology, Peri-Operative Care & Pain Medicine; Professor of Orthopedics Medical Director of Pain Medicine,, NYU Langone Health

Christopher Gharibo, MD completed medical school at Rutgers in 1992 and completed his anesthesiology residency at NYU Medical Center. He served his Pain Medicine fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology and holds subspecialty certification in Pain Medicine.

Dr. Gharibo has acute pain experience with system-wide use of interventional techniques in combination with nonopioids and opioids as part of multimodal acute pain management pathways.

His areas of clinical expertise include low back and neck pain of musculoskeletal and spinal origin, cancer pain, and neuropathic pain syndromes such as painful peripheral neuropathies and reflex sympathetic dystrophy. His areas of technical expertise include nerve blocks, peripheral and spinal injection techniques for diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain syndromes including joint injections, epidural steroid injections, nerve root blocks, facet injections, facet nerve blocks, radiofrequency rhizotomy as well as drug delivery systems and spinal cord stimulators. Many of these injections can provide diagnostic answers and be tailored to provide prolonged pain relief and functional improvement when used as part of an overall pain management plan of care.

Positions

  • Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  • Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  • Director, Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain Medicine

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