Regional and Acute Pain Management Fellowship

Program Description

• Accreditation: Non-ACGME Accredited
• Number of positions per year: 4 (four)
• Stipend: 60% Fellow (PGY-V)/40% Attending

Structure

The Fellowship takes place at University of Colorado Hospital, in Aurora, Colorado.  UCH is a full-service 600-bed, adult academic medical center.  The hospital includes large inpatient and outpatient surgical areas. 

The Fellowship is composed as such:

• 60% Fellow

1. Ultrasound guided and Nerve-stim peripheral nerve blocks
2. Nerve block catheters: both inpatient and outpatient
3. Neuraxial analgesia techniques
4. Epidural management and titration
5. Management of acute pai​n, largely in the surgical patient
6. Management of acute-on-chronic pain
7. Multimodal medication and non-pharmacologic management
8. Hands-on teaching resident-physicians Regional and Acute pain
9. Multi-disciplinary patient management
10. Research project in Regional/Acute pain realm

• 40% Attending – Senior Instructor

1. Solo cases vs Supervision of residents, AAs, CRNAS
2. Hands-on teaching of resident-physicians, student AAs, SRNAs
3. All cases covered, except: Cardiac, Thoracic, Liver Transplant
4. “Moonlighting” - Possible paid-call opportunities on Attending days

The schedule will typically break down to a week of “Fellow activity,” with an alternating week of attending activity. Additionally, the Regional & Acute Pain fellows will alternate weekly coverage, so as to allow the Acute Pain Service to have 100% Fellow staffing.

Regional/Acute Pain Faculty

• Olivia Romano, MD – Acute Pain Service Medical Director
• Kyle Marshall, MD – Fellowship Director
• Matthew Lyman, MD – Associate Fellowship Director
• Michael Canepa, MD
• Roland Flores, MD
• Mitchell Gist, MD
• Adrian Hendrickse, MBBS
• Simrat Kaur, DO
  
• Jacob Loyd, MD
• Keleigh McLaughlin, MD
• Brittany Seidensticker, MD
• Marina Shindell, DO
• Inge Tamm-Daniels, MD
• Jillian Vitter, MD​