Pain Management and Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology

Professor Emeritus
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Oral Medicine, and Craniofacial Pain
Boston, MA 02111

  Michael A. Kahn, DDS, is an emeritus professor and former chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Oral Medicine, and Craniofacial Pain at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Professor at Tufts School of Medicine, and laboratory director of Tufts Oral Pathology Services.

He maintained a university-based consultative oral medicine/oral pathology clinical practice and conducted intramural and extramural funded basic and clinical research. He is past-president and emeritus fellow of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology as well as past-president and emeritus diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology.

Associate Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine & Orthopedics, NYU School of Medicine; Medical Director of Pain Medicine, NYU Langone Hospitals Center

Christopher Gharibo, MD is an Associate Professor with the Departments of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine & Orthopedics at NYU School of Medicine and serves as the Medical Director of Pain Medicine at NYU Langone Hospitals Center. He holds editorial position with Pain Physician and Pain Medicine Physician. He is the current past president of NYSIPP and president-elect of the Eastern Pain Association.

Dr. Gharibo obtained his medical degree from Rutgers Medical School in 1992 and completed his anesthesiology residency at NYU Medical Center. He served his Pain Medicine fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology and holds subspecialty certification in Pain Medicine.

He has acute pain experience with system-wide use of interventional techniques in combination with nonopioids and opioids as part of multimodal acute pain management pathways. His areas of clinical expertise include low back and neck pain of musculoskeletal and spinal origin, cancer pain, and neuropathic pain syndromes such as painful peripheral neuropathies and reflex sympathetic dystrophy. He also specializes in opioid sparing pathways for peri operative, inpatient and outpatient pain control.

His areas of technical expertise include nerve blocks, peripheral and spinal injection techniques for diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain syndromes including joint injections, epidural steroid injections, nerve root blocks, facet injections, facet nerve blocks, radiofrequency rhizotomy as well as drug delivery systems and spinal cord stimulators. Many of these injections can provide diagnostic answers and be tailored to provide prolonged pain relief and functional improvement when used as part of an overall pain management plan of care.