Seth A. Waldman, MD

Dr. Seth Waldman has more than fifteen years of experience in the field of interventional and medical pain management. He specializes in therapeutic and diagnostic spinal injections, and the management of neurologic pain.

A native of New York, Dr. Waldman is a graduate of the six-year accelerated biomedical education program at Union University and the Albany Medical College. Following graduate school, he was a resident in general surgery and internal medicine at Mount Sinai Medical School - Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. His specialty training in anesthesiology was completed at the Harvard Medical School - Beth Israel Hospital, where he was chosen as Chief Resident in Anesthesiology and Critical Care during his senior year. Dr. Waldman then remained at Harvard for additional fellowship training in pain management, which was completed at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Beth Israel Hospital in 1994. Since that time, he has been in practice at the prestigious Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan, and he has been the Director of the Division of Pain Medicine at the hospital since 1996. He is board-certified both in anesthesiology and pain medicine.

Dr. Waldman received the Donald P. Todd Award for Outstanding Fellow in Pain Management (the ‘Golden-Needle Award’) from Massachusetts General Hospital, and has been listed in New York magazine’s "Best Doctor’s in New York" issue every year since 2001. He was recently given the Best Fellowship Teacher of the Year Award from the Pain Medicine Division at Cornell University.

Dr. Waldman was one of the founders of the Tri-Institutional Pain Medicine Fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical College, the largest post-graduate pain fellowship training program in the northeast, and remains the Hospital for Special Surgery site director of the faculty. In 2007, he developed the Interventional Pain Management Training Program for the Psycho-Motor Skills Teaching Laboratory at HSS.

He has an academic appointment as Assistant Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College, and is Consultant in Pain Management at the Winifred Masterson Burke Rehabilitation Hospital in White Plains, New York. In addition to his clinical practice at Hospital for Special Surgery, he has served as a member of the Anesthesiology Department’s quality assurance committee, and on the editorial board of The HSS Journal.

Dr. Waldman currently serves as Director-at-Large for the New York Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. He has offices at HSS and at the Burke Rehabilitation Office. 

Appointments

Director, Division of Pain Management, Hospital for Special Surgery
Assistant Attending Anesthesiologist, Hospital for Special Surgery
Co-chairman Special Procedures Committee, Hospital for Special Surgery
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College
Faculty, Tri-institutional Pain Medicine Fellowship Program, New York Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Hospital for Special Surgery
Consultant in Pain Medicine, Winifred Masterson Burke Rehabilitation Hospital

Specialty

Anesthesiology
Chronic Pain Management

Subspecialty

Pain Management

Special Expertise

Neuropathic Pain Syndromes
Non-Surgical Treatment of Spinal Pain
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Spinal Injection Procedure
Radiofrequency Ablation-Osteoid Osteomas

Awards

"Best Doctors in New York," Castle Connolly Guides, 2001-2009
"Best Doctors in New York," New York magazine, 2001-2009
Teacher of the Year, 2008, Cornell Tri-institutional Pain Fellowship Faculty
Donald P. Todd Golden Needle Award, Outstanding Fellow in Pain Management, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1993

Affiliations

Diplomate, American Academy of Pain Medicine
American Medical Association
American Pain Society
International Association of the Study of Pain (and Special Interest Group on Neuropathic Pain)
American Society of Anesthesiologists
American Society for Regional Anesthesia
New York State Society of Anesthesiologists
American College of Sports Medicine
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society
American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
World Institute of Pain

Education

Albany Medical College of Union University

Internship

General Surgery - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York
Internal Medicine - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York

Residency

Anesthesiology and Critical Care - Chief Resident, Harvard Medical School - Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA

Fellowship

Pain Medicine - Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital

Certification

Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners, 1988
Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology, 1993
Certificate of Added Qualifications in Pain Management, 1994
Recertification of Added Qualifications in Pain Management, 2004

State Licensure

New York  

Selected Publications

  

For more publications, please see the PubMed listing.  

Research Interests

Trial of Memantine for the Prevention of Past Laminectomy Syndrome and Neuropathic Pain
Paratracheal Approach to Brachial Plexus Anesthesia