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UC Irvine Health Provides the Only Pediatric Pain Doctor in Southern
California Treating Chronic Pain in Children
ORANGE, Calif., April 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Shalini Shah MD,
director of pediatric pain management in the UC Irvine Health
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, is the only
specialist in Southern California fellowship-trained to treat children
suffering from chronic pain.
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Shah provides much needed relief to children facing cancer in need of
interventional pain treatment and palliative care at the integrative
clinic based in the UC Irvine Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer,
where she also treats adults. This highly-specialized method of
treating chronic pain in children began at Harvard University and
Boston Children's Hospital where Shah completed a fellowship under Dr.
Charles Berde, renowned as the father of pediatric pain management.
Today, Shah brings this expertise to patients in Orange County and the
surrounding community in Southern California. Dr. Shah is certified by
the American Board of Anesthesiology in both anesthesiology and pain
medicine.
"Every day, I care for children who come to me in debilitating pain
and together we develop a treatment plan to alleviate that pain," said
Shah, an assistant clinical professor of anesthesiology and pain
medicine with UC Irvine Health. "It's rewarding to see these children
brighten up and begin to laugh, play and just be a kid again. In many
cases, parents have been to specialist after specialist and they are
grateful for the outcomes that we achieve for their children."
As part of her work on pain in children and adolescents at the UC
Irvine Health Center for Pain Management, Shah offers a scientific and
holistic approach to pain care. This approach includes treatments for
lower back pain, headaches, and joint pain to more complicated
treatments such as spinal cord stimulation, intrathecal pain pump
technology, cooled radiofrequency technology and botox. The pain
center offers state-of-the-art technologies to treat low back pain,
including, Cooled Radio Frequency Neuromodulation. UC Irvine is one of
the first locations in Orange County to offer this innovative
technology. Shah and her colleagues at the pain center focus on
healing chronic pain at its source and is a firm believer in
acupuncture, Reiki, and other integrative treatments.
In addition to her contributions to UC Irvine, Shah has authored
numerous textbook chapters, and is a book reviewer for the Oxford
Textbook of Pediatric Pain. She's a primary investigator for a
clinical trial in pediatric pain management. With a particular
interest in alleviating chronic pain conditions via a
multi-disciplinary and interventional approach, Shah's aim is to
reduce pain so children can reclaim their lives and return to the
activities they enjoyed before the onset of pain.
About UC Irvine Health Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative
Care
The Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care is one of the
premier anesthesiology departments in the United States, which boasts
an excellent residency program for training future doctors. The
department is affiliated with the UC Irvine School of Medicine and
provides anesthesia coverage at the UC Irvine Medical Center. For more
information about the UC Irvine Health Department of Anesthesiology &
Perioperative Care, please visit: http://www.anesthesiology.uci.edu/.
Media Contact Name: Maura Hofstadter, PhD Phone Number: 714-456-7410
Read more news from the UC Irvine Health Department of Anesthesiology
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