The Department of Anesthesiology at LSU Health Shreveport has created an ACGME approved, one-year pain medicine fellowship program. The program involves multidisciplinary pain management training in all aspects of patient care including diagnostics, therapeutics, and minimally invasive surgical procedures. This highly competitive Fellowship program accepts three Fellows per year and graduated its first board-certified Anesthesiologist in the 2016-2017 academic year. Fellows gain considerable experience in the treatment and diagnosis of all types of pain. In addition, there are excellent opportunities for clinical research.

Our Clinical Pain Medicine Fellowship program was the first in the State of Louisiana with original accreditation in 1996. 
Fellows have a 100% board pass rate for the past several years.

Fellows can expect to have world class training at this program due to robust clinical volume and outstanding academics. Clinical volume can range from 20-60 patients per day. Procedural volume can range from 10-40 per day. Surgical volume can range from 1-10 per day. During the course of the fellowship, the fellow will see approximately 4,000 clinic patients, perform 200 surgeries, and over 1,000 procedures. In addition to this, fellows will publish several times during the year. Lectures are available daily with LSU New Orleans or one on one with one of our world class faculty on site. Oral and written board review is also available daily.

Fellows are given opportunities to attend many national meetings and hands on workshops. Fellows also get to take part in the Medtronic Fellowship Academy. Faculty and fellows in the program have published in peer reviewed journals, authored manuscripts, abstracts, book chapters, textbooks, presented at national conferences and abroad, hold positions on boards of well-respected journals and national organizations. Our team has delivered well over 500 lectures at national conferences, over 1,500 publications, over 500 book chapters, and over 50 textbooks.

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The working environment ranges from collegial and tutorial academic to private practice. A didactic schedule has been developed to help fellows improve their knowledge base, while helping to improve their clinical decision-making abilities in a very supportive environment.

Locally, this program specializes in the treatment of cancer-related pain. Fellows work closely with the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center and will gain considerable experience in the treatment and diagnosis of cancer-related pain. Fellows will also receive training in acute and chronic pain patient treatment with Dr. Brian Bernhardt, Dr. Varsha Allampalli, Dr. Azem Chami and Dr. Alan Kaye at the Ochsner LSU Health Interventional Pain Management Clinic and St. Mary's Medical Center.