Areas of expertise and specialization
COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMENEURALGIAPOSTLAMINECTOMY SYNDROMECERVICOGENIC HEADACHESPINAL DISC DISEASE AND SPONDYLOSISSPINAL CORD STIMULATIONINTRATHECAL PUMPSMINIMAL INVASIVE SPINE PROCEDURESSPINAL SPACERSSACROILIAC STABILIZATIONREGENERATVIE MEDICINESPINAL INJECTIONSPERIPHERAL NERVE STIMULATORSKYPHOPLASTYSPINAL FRACTURES
Areas of research
NEUROMODULATION
SPINAL CORD AND PERIPHERAL NERVE STIMULATION
MEDICAL CANNABIS
INTRATHECAL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS
LOW DOSE NALTREXONE
KETAMINE
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Get to know Pain Management Specialist Dr. Philip S. Kim, who serves patients throughout Delaware and Pennsylvania.
Dr. Kim began his career at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. He completed his residency in anesthesiology and fellowship in pain management at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is board certified in Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Integrative Medicine. He also completed a master’s in functional medicine at the University of South Florida. His multiple society memberships include the International Association for the Study of Pain, Spine Interventional Society, American Academy of Pain Medicine, Regional Pain and Anesthesia Society. North American Spine Society, and the North American Neuromodulation Society. He is the current president of the Pennsylvania Pain Society.
He is highly recognized for his specialty in neuromodulation therapies and intrathecal drug delivery systems. He is passionate about interventional approaches to pain management and increasing the quality of life for his patients. He is committed to offering patients options when they feel they have exhausted many of them.
He serves as an author on the polyanalgesic consensus for intrathecal drug delivery and neurostimulation appropriate consensus committee. Dr. Kim is passionate about interventional approaches to pain management and increasing the quality of life for his patients. He is committed to offering patients options when they feel they have exhausted many of them. New approaches include regenerative therapies for disc pain, basivertebral denervation, percutaneous spinous spacers, sacroiliac joint stabilization, and peripheral nerve stimulation. He is part of a large research division with at least 17 ongoing clinical studies on various pain treatments. He continues to serve on editorial boards for many prestigious medical journals.
Dr. Kim is the Chief Executive officer and founding member of the Center for Interventional Pain & Spine, previous Medical Representative for the Controlled Substance Advisory Committee of Delaware, and member of the Delaware Prescription Drug Action Committee.
Pain management is a branch of medicine employing an interdisciplinary approach for easing the suffering and improving the quality of life of those living with chronic pain. A pain management specialist is a doctor who specializes in pain medicine, focusing on the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of pain.
Recognized as a Regional Top Doctor by Castle Connolly Magazine, Dr. Kim has been the recipient of the Top Doctor Award by Philadelphia Magazine (2016-2021).
Additional Information
Dr. Philip S. Kim is a pain management specialist who lends his skills and expertise to serve patients at the Center for Interventional Pain & Spine in Wilmington, Delaware and Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Chief Executive Officer and founding member of the Center, Dr. Kim additionally can be found on staff at Main Line Health and Christiana Care. With 24 years of experience as a pain management specialist, he specializes in neuromodulation therapies and intrathecal drug delivery systems. With a passion for interventional approaches to pain management, Dr. Kim embraces new approaches designed to offer patients options when they feel they have exhausted many of them. Such new approaches include regenerative therapies for disc pain, basivertebral denervation, percutaneous spinous spacers, sacroiliac joint stabilization, and peripheral nerve stimulation.
Dr. Philip S. Kim is part of a large research division with at least 17 ongoing clinical studies on various pain treatments. He continues to serve on editorial boards for many prestigious medical journals. He serves as an author on the polyanalgesic consensus for intrathecal drug delivery and neurostimulation appropriate consensus committee.
