Pain Management, Anesthesiologist in Lyndhurst, New Jersey (NJ)

Richard Kang, MD is board certified in Pain Management and Anesthesiology by the American Board of Anesthesiology. He completed his Interventional Pain Management fellowship at Columbia University in New York CIty and his Anesthesiology residency and Chief Residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland.

At the University of Maryland, he was nominated Chief Resident by the attending staff and residents, and won the Robert D. Dripps, MD Memorial Award for Most Outstanding Graduating Senior Resident. Dr. Kang is also the Medical Director of Metropolitan Pain Consultants, a private practice Minimally Invasive Spine Practice.

Dr. Kang specializes in minimally invasive treatment modalities for the spine. He also treats painful peripheral neuropathies such as post hernia pain, occipital neuralgia, painful lateral femoral cutaneous neuralgia, facial neuralgias, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy / CRPS, cancer pain and other intractable pain syndromes. In treating spine patients, he works closely with Fellowship Trained spine surgeons to avoid or delay surgery, as well as to make surgery more precise via an Endoscopic approach.

Dr. Kang's practice philosophy focuses on individual patient treatment modalities utilizing evidence-based medicine and the Multi-Modal/Conservative Care Model to the management of painful conditions. Dr. Kang's practice focuses on Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and its various modalities and options.