Pain Medicine Fellowship
Welcome to Pain Mangement in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at LSU. We are privileged to serve a very large population at multiple facilities in our community including Univeristy Medical Center of New Orleans, Touro Infirmary, Veterans Affairs Medical Center of New Orleans, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, and Children’s Hospital. By rotating at all of these sites our fellows are able to treat all young and old patient populations with payor sources including Medicare, Medicaid, Private Insurance, Veterans Benefits, and Uninsured. The diversity of pathology and number of patients who provide learning opportunities are incomparable.
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Casey Murphy, MD
Fellowship Program Director,
Assistant Professor
How to Apply
Applicants can submit ERAS applications according to the ERAS timeline for December cycle programs.
Please be aware that we will begin scheduling interviews early in the calendar year.
- It is recommended that applications be complete by no later than February 1.
- Interview invitations are sent after February 15.
- Interviews start the first week of May.
Application Requirements
The ERAS application should be comprehensive to be competitive, as all information submitted will be considered.
- In addition to the CV, other materials must include the medical school transcript and USMLE and/or COMLEX scores.
- The application must include at least three (3) letters of reference.
- One of these letters must be from your current or past residency program director.
Important Dates
- ERAS files reviewed January and February 2025
- Interviews start May 2025
- Match Opens June 26, 2025
- Match Day September 25, 2025
NRMP pain medicine fellowship matches, listed under anesthesiology specialty matches.
Academic Information
Interdisplinary Pain Medicine Continuity Clinic
All fellows attend at VA Medical Center every Wednesday afternoon.
Educational Activity
- Every Wednesday after Continuity Clinic at Veteran Affairs Medical Center of New Orleans,
room 1M120A
- Starting 5/2021, we will have in-person and Zoom available
- Topics in Pain Medicine
- M&M Case Presentations
Free Admission to Southern Pain Society's Annual Regional Conference in New Orleans
- All LSU Pain Fellows are presenting posters on September 20th, 2024 at the Southern Pain Society Meeting
- 4 Days of Paid leave for Educational Conferences and Board Exams
Access to VA, Ochsner, and UMC's Electronic Medical Libraries
- This includes dozens of textbooks and atlases
- If we do not have a particular source for our fellows, then this can be purchased by our VA librarian.
Journal Club
- Monthly in cooperation with Ochsner
- Moderator: Dr. Yashar Eshraghi
- Monthly in cooperation with VA
- Moderator: Dr. Mordecai Potash
Academic Performance Measures
In Training Examination - Pain Medicine
- Administered by American Board of Anesthesiology
- Annually in March
Rotation Descriptions
VA Hospital - 7 months
- Outpatient Interdiscplinary Pain Medicine
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Complex disease states which the fellows work with psychology, physical therapy, and occupational therapy
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- Outpatient Interventional Pain Medicine
- Procedures: Transforaminal and interlaminar epidural steroid injections, facet injections, medial branch blocks, peripheral joint injections, trigger point injections, peripheral nerve injections, sympathetic blocks, radiofrequency nerve ablation, spinal cord stimulation trial and implants, percutaneous lumbar decompression, kyphoplasty, Via Disc allograft, Basivertebral Nerve Ablation, sacroiliac joint fusion, endoscopic rhizotomy.
LCMC Health (UMC/Touro/CHNOLA/EJGH) - 2 months
- Outpatient Interventional Pain at EJGH
- Procedures: Transforaminal and interlaminar epidural steroid injections, facet injections, medial branch blocks, peripheral joint injections, trigger point injections, peripheral nerve injections, sympathetic blocks, radiofrequency nerve ablation, spinal cord stimulation trial and implants, kyphoplasty, via disc allograft
- Outpatient Intervnetional Pain and Sports Medicine at UMC
- Procedures: Transforaminal and interlaminar epidural steroid injections, facet injections, medial branch blocks, peripheral joint injections, trigger point injections, peripheral nerve injections, sympathetic blocks, radiofrequency nerve ablation
- Childrens Hospital of New Orleans (CHNOLA) Hem/Onc Pain Medicine Consults
- Childrens New Orleans Cancer Program
- University Medical Center /Touro
- Inpatient Pain Medicine Consults: polytrauma, cancer, palliative care
Ochsner Clinic Foundation - 3 months
- Outpatient Pain Medicine
- Interventional and outpatient clinics
- Procedures: Transforaminal and interlaminar epidural steroid injections, facet injections, medial branch blocks, peripheral joint injections, trigger point injections, peripheral nerve injections, sympathetic blocks, radiofrequency nerve ablation, kyphoplasty, spinal cord stimulation trial and implants, dorsal root ganglion stimulation trial and implant, sacroiliac joint fusion, intrathecal pump trial and implants, intracept, peripheral nerve stimulator implant.
- Ochsner Pain Management
