Dr. Russell K Portenoy MD
Pain Management Specialist | Interventional Pain Medicine
10 Union Sq E Bimc Dept Of Pain Me New York NY, 10003Rating
4/5
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Dr. Russell Portenoy practices Pain Medicine in New York, NY. Pain medicine is concerned with the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients experiencing pain. Pain medicine physicians use a broad-based approach to treat all pain disorders, ranging from pain as a symptom of disease to pain as the primary disease. Dr. Portenoy serves as a consultant to other physicians but is often the principal treating physician, providing care at various levels; such as treating the patient directly, prescribing medication, prescribing rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counseling patients and families, directing a multidisciplinary team, coordinating care with other healthcare providers, and providing consultative services.
Education and Training
Univ of Md Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1980
University of Maryland School of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Using continuous infusion with PCA.
- Transdermal fentanyl in children with cancer pain: feasibility, tolerability, and pharmacokinetic correlates.
- Management of cancer pain.
- Cancer-related fatigue: guidelines for evaluation and management.
- Breakthrough pain: characteristics and impact in patients with cancer pain.
- Managing pain in patients with advanced cancer: the role of neuraxial infusion.
- Managing cancer pain poorly responsive to systemic opioid therapy.
- An international survey of cancer pain characteristics and syndromes. IASP Task Force on Cancer Pain. International Association for the Study of Pain.
- Symptom prevalence, characteristics, and distress in AIDS outpatients.
- Pain management: pharmacological approaches.
- A chart review of the ordering and documentation of urine toxicology screens in a cancer center: do they influence patient management?
- Current pharmacotherapy of chronic pain.
- Enhancing opioid analgesia with NMDA-receptor antagonists: clarifying the clinical importance. A roundtable discussion.
- A pilot survey of aberrant drug-taking attitudes and behaviors in samples of cancer and AIDS patients.
- The measurement of symptoms in children with cancer.
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