Jeffrey Y.F. Ngeow, MD

Dr. Jeffrey Y. F. Ngeow first arrived to Hospital for Special Surgery from Yale New Haven Medical Center in 1987. Soon after arriving he started the Pain Management Service, which has since developed into the Division of Pain Medicine within the Department of Anesthesiology. It now includes five board certified pain specialists who attend over 4,500 patient visits per year at the Pain Management Center at HSS. Since 1996 Dr. Ngeow has expanded his interest in interventional pain treatments by adding acupuncture to his practice. He is certified for acupuncture practice in New York State and is currently involved with ongoing research in the effectiveness of acupuncture as a complement to modern methods in different painful musculoskeletal conditions.

Appointments

Associate Attending Anesthesiologist, Hospital for Special Surgery
Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College

Specialty

Anesthesiology
Pain Management

Subspecialty

Pain Management

Special Expertise

Acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions
Innovative teaching tools in interventional pain therapy
Complementary and alternative methods of pain treatments

Awards

Listed in New York Magazine's "Best Doctors in New York" since 1998

Affiliations

American Society of Anesthesiologists
International Association of the Study of Pain
Eastern Pain Association
American College of Acupuncture
Chinese American Medical Society

Specialized Centers

• Integrative Care Center

Education

University of London Hospital Medical School, London, England

Residency

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Fellowship

Tuft's New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Certification

American Board of Anesthesiology
American Board of Anesthesiology, subspecialty certification in Pain Medicine
American Board of Pain Medicine

State Licensure

Connecticut, New York  

Jeffrey Y.F. Ngeow, MD is the author of the following articles on HSS.edu:

Selected Publications

  

For more publications, please see the PubMed listing.  

Research Interests

Efficacy of acupuncture in treating chronic degenerative spine conditions as evaluated by random placebo controlled trials.