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Pain Medicine Fellowship

Learn more about the Pain Medicine Fellowship.

We are committed to providing each fellow with the highest quality experience and education through our ACGME-accredited fellowship with both faculty expertise and a diversity of training experiences.

Our fellowship trains and mentors future pain medicine physicians to excel both clinically and in the fields of education and research. We offer a broad-based clinical experience that includes such environments as:

Acute pain
Chronic pain
Cancer pain
Interventional procedures
Multidisciplinary pain medicine
Neurology/Neurosurgery rotation

We offer three positions each year. Clinical training takes place through UNMC's primary clinical partner, Nebraska Medicine, whose large clinical volume provides our fellows with abundant experience and personalized training.

Fellows participate in pain training that varies depending on their level of expertise as soon as they begin training. Our fellows exceed the minimal requirements of pain procedures established for sub-certification in Pain Medicine from the American Board of Anesthesiology.

Pain Medicine fellows participate in didactic lectures and conferences while on each rotation. A formal journal club and a bimonthly conference in multidisciplinary quality improvement are required, as well as weekly conferences of fellow reading and journal club and multidisciplinary research conference. Fellows also take part in cadaver labs each year, as available, and a learning project involving a Grand Rounds presentation or other acceptable project.

Rotations

Chronic Pain
Acute Pain
Neurology/Neurosurgery
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation/Psychology

Lecture Series

Pain assessment, evaluation
Pain treatment
Interventional procedures
Fluoroscopy safety
Medication management
Psychiatric co-morbidities
Neurology
Physical medicine, rehabilitation
Pain anatomy, physiology
Surgical options
Research

Application Process

Positions available each academic year: 3
All applicants who have successfully completed an Anesthesiology, Neurology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, or Psychiatry residency at an ACGME-accredited residency program and are interested in Pain Medicine are encouraged to apply.
Applications are accepted through ERAS only. We participate in the NRMP for placement of our Pain Medicine Fellowship positions and submit our rank list in compliance with their deadlines.
Those applicants selected for a formal interview will be extended an invitation during May or June.

Chronic Pain Faculty

Madhuri Are, MD

Robert Lieberman Professor in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Division Chief, Pain Medicine, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Director, Cancer Pain Medicine, Nebraska Medicine

Redgy Fuller, DO

Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Chronic Pain Anesthesiologist, Nebraska Medicine

Kimberley K. Haynes-Henson, MD

Associate Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship Program, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Associate Professor
Chronic Pain Anesthesiologist, Nebraska Medicine

Marshall Ladd, DO

Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Pain Medicine Anesthesiologist, Nebraska Medicine

Michael J. Lankhorst, MD

Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship Program, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Associate Professor
Pain Medicine Anesthesiologist, Nebraska Medicine

Robert (Bobby) Muelleman, MD

Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Pain Medicine Anesthesiologist, Nebraska Medicine

Peter Ricci Pellegrino, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Pain Medicine Anesthesiologist, Nebraska Medicine

Acute Pain Services Faculty

Nicholas E. Heiser, MD

Director, Regional Anesthesiology & Acute Pain Medicine (RAAPM) Fellowship Program, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Associate Professor
Director of Anesthesiology, Lauritzen Outpatient Center/Fritch Surgery Center, Nebraska Medicine
Director, Outreach and Fundraising, Strategic Plan
Pain Medicine Anesthesiologist

Austin Adams, MD

Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Section Head, Anesthesia for Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Nebraska Medicine
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist

Andrew Ingemansen, MD

Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Critical Care Anesthesiologist
Director of Anesthesiology, Bellevue Medical Center, Nebraska Medicine

Zahid Iqbal, MD

Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Medical Director, Perioperative Evaluation and Care Clinic, Nebraska Medicine
Critical Care Anesthesiologist

Cale Kassel, MD

Associate Director, Residency Program for Rotations and Operations, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Co-Director, Anesthesiology Quality Assurance Committee
Associate Professor
Section Head, Abdominal Organ Transplant Anesthesiology, Nebraska Medicine
Multispecialty Anesthesiologist

Kyle Johnson, MD

Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Pain Medicine Anesthesiologist, Nebraska Medicine

Andrew Maresch, MD

Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Director of Anesthesiology, Village Pointe Health Center, Nebraska Medicine
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist

Kyle Ringenberg, MD

Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Medical Director, Perioperative Quality & Safety/NERAS, Nebraska Medicine
Section Head, Complex Abdominopelvic & Enhanced Recovery
Multispecialty Anesthesiologist

Platt Niebur, MD

Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Pain Medicine Anesthesiologist, Nebraska Medicine

Current Fellows

James Bolduc, DO

Medical School - Nova Southeastern University College of Allopathic Medicine
Residency - HCA Florida Kendall Regional Medical Center

Leith Hobbs, DO

Medical School - New York Institute of Technology, College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency - University of Nebraska Medical Center

Dan Nicholls, MD

Medical School - University of Nebraska Medical Center
Residency - University of Nebraska Medical Center

Michelle Rooney

GME Senior Program Coordinator

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