Christine Peterson, MD

Anesthesiology, Pain Management

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Education
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For My Patients

Dr. Christine Peterson is a pain management specialist within the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Management and board certified in hospice and palliative medicine. She takes a systemic approach to complex pain conditions through optimizing overall health and wellness, with a focus on integrative and non-pharmacologic approaches to pain. She is the program director for the HSS Opioid Overdose Prevention Program and a member of the Hospital’s palliative care team.

Dr. Peterson has been practicing at HSS since 2012 and served as the Director of Inpatient Pain Medicine Services. She is a graduate of Memorial Sloan Kettering's Pain and Palliative Care fellowship program and completed an internal medicine residency at Lenox Hill Hospital. She received her medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine.

Patient Stories

Appointments

Assistant Attending Physician, Hospital for Special Surgery
Clinical Instructor of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College

Departments

Pain Management Division
Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Management

Specialized Centers

Center for Brachial Plexus and Traumatic Nerve Injury

Special Expertise

Chronic pain

Languages

English

Insurance Information

Please do not hesitate to contact our office if you have questions regarding your insurance coverage. You may have coverage subject to the availability of 'out-of-network' benefits.

Industry Relationships

One of the goals of HSS is to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and related disciplines for the benefit of patients. Physicians at HSS may collaborate with outside companies for education, research and medical advances. HSS supports this collaboration in order to foster medical breakthroughs; however HSS also believes that these collaborations must be disclosed.

As part of the disclosure process, this website lists physician collaborations with outside companies. The disclosures are provided by information provided by the physician and other sources and are updated regularly. Further information may be available on individual company websites.

As of December 18, 2019, Dr. Peterson reported no relationships with healthcare industry.

By disclosing the collaborations of HSS physicians with industry on this website, HSS and its physicians make this information available to their patients and the public, thus creating a transparent environment for those who are interested in this information. Further, the HSS Conflicts of Interest Policy does not permit physicians to collect royalties on products developed by him/her that are used on patients at HSS.

Education

State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

Internship

Internal Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY

Residency

Internal Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital

Fellowship

Pain and Palliative Care, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Certification

Internal Medicine (2005), Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2010)

State Licensure

For more publications, please see the PubMed listing.

This practice is focused on taking a lifestyle and wellness approach to complex, chronic or recurring pain conditions. It is not prescription or medication based. It is targeted towards people motivated to overhaul their diet and lifestyle to improve their health, leading to a reduction in pain symptoms over time. Assessment includes a complete intake of health and pain history and all factors that relate to a person’s lifestyle. This includes evaluation of a person’s diet, activity, stress management practices, sleep habits and social and emotional aspects of a person’s life, which can all impact health. The approach centers on the premise that optimized nutrition and lifestyle factors support the body's ability to heal with minimal to no physical intervention in many chronic conditions.

What to expect from visits: The first visit will include spending about an hour with Dr. Peterson reviewing your questionnaires, health history and physical exam. After the exam, initial dietary and lifestyle recommendations will be made and recommended tests and bloodwork will be suggested, including inflammatory and dietary markers of health.

Follow up visits will take place over telehealth and will be for approximately 30 minutes. This will include a review of bloodwork and/or other test results and checking in on any change in health conditions.