Christine Peterson, MD is the Director of Inpatient Pain Medicine Services at Hospital for Special Surgery. She is board certified in internal medicine and hospice and palliative medicine. Dr. Peterson provides pain management services to chronic and recuperative pain inpatients, coordinates interdisciplinary pain services throughout the hospital and provides consultations to evaluate, diagnose and treat inpatients with complex pain conditions.
Dr. Peterson is a graduate of Memorial Sloan Kettering's Pain and Palliative Care fellowship program. She completed an internal medicine residency at Lenox Hill Hospital and received her medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine.
Patient Stories
Appointments
Director of Inpatient Pain Medicine Services, Hospital for Special Surgery
Assistant Attending Physician, Hospital for Special Surgery
Clinical Instructor of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College
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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)
