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After earning his MD degree at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 1981, Dr. Kamhi trained broadly across four specialties, including Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Psychiatry and then Anesthesiology at SUNY Downstate and Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Kamhi continued advanced training by completing a Pain Management Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

In addition to clinical practice, Dr. Kamhi was a full-time Research Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at a division of the State University of Florida. There he taught graduate students, conducted research and wrote an academic text about pain.

Dr. Kamhi is a member of many prestigious societies including the American Medical Association, International Society for the Study of Pain, New York State Medical Society and North American Spine Society.

SpineUniverse articles from Lawrence M. Kamhi, MD

• Chronic Pain Update: Ziconotide - A New Class of Pharmacologic Agent
  Ziconotide is the first FDA-approved agent in a promising class of drugs called the conotoxins. Its release carried the specific indication for intrathecal use in chronic pain patients.
• Effectiveness of Spinal Epidural Corticosteroid Injections
  Physicans are seeing more patients with osteoarthritis, herniated discs and spinal stenosis. This trend is expected to continue as the American population ages.
• Epidural Corticosteroid Injections and Back Pain
  Pinpointing the cause of back or neck pain is difficult. The cause may not be as obvious as a herniated disc.
• Epidural Steroid Injections and Corticosteroids
  An epidural injection allows the physician to administer a more potent dose of corticosteroid medication where it is needed.
• IDET Controversy: Answers from a Pain Management Specialist
  If you have discogenic pain, IDET is a treatment option for you. However, it's relatively new, so some medical professionals consider it experimental. A pain management specialist responds to those challenges.
• IDET Explanation: Basic Information from a Pain Management Specialist
  IDET is a relatively new pain management treatment option for discogenic pain -- pain that's specifically related to your intervertebral discs. An interventional pain management specialist explains how IDET works.
• Pain Management 101: Epidural Steroid Injections
  If your doctor has recommended epidural steroid injections to treat your low back pain, is more than one injection needed?
• Pump it Up: How Spinal Pumps Work
  Who is a good candidate for a spinal pump? How does the pump get medication to where you have back pain? How's a pump different from other pain management treatment options? A pain management specialist fills you in on the details of spinal pumps.
• Steroids, Cortisone, Corticosteroids and Glucocorticoids
  Cortisone and cortisone-like steroids are powerful anti-inflammatory medications.
• What is Cortisone and How is it Used to Treat Back and Neck Pain?
  Doctor Lawrence Kamhi, an Interventional Pain Management specialist answers the question, "What is cortisone?"