MICHAEL GOFELD MD, FIPP

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Pain Management Program, Palliative Care Initiative

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5

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Staff Physician Anesthesia Department, Palliative Care Team. July 2006 – Present

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Interventional Cancer Pain ManagementRegional Anesthesia (Holland Orthopedic Hospital)

Chronic Pain Clinical Fellowship 2005 – 2006

Pain Management Consultant 2001 - 2004

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Pain Medicine Center Medical Faculty of Tel Aviv University

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

Pain Management Fellowship 2005-2006

Israeli Board Certified Anesthesiologist 2000

Diplomate European Academy of Anaesthesiology (DEAA) 2000

Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) 2003

PUBLICATIONS:

Contribution in preparing proposal for a multifaceted EFIC initiative on pain: Europe Against Pain, 2002Pulsed Radiofrequency for Chronic Neuropathic Pain. Pilot study. Gofeld M, Niv D. Presented at INS Congress, Madrid 2003Causes of pain in degenerative bone disease: a lesson from vertebroplasty. Niv D, Gofeld M, Devor M. Pain, 105 (3): 387-92, 2003Anchoring of Suboccipital Lead: Case Report and Technical Note. Gofeld M. Pain Practice, 4: 307-309, 2004Chronic Pain Management in Interventional Pain Management., 2nd ed. Aurora, Israel. 2004New approach for spinal cord stimulation trial. Gofeld M, Cohen E, Niv D. Pain Practice, 4: 324-326, 2005Bilateral pain relief after unilateral thoracic percutaneous sympathectomy. Gofeld M, Faclier G. Can J Anesth, 53:3, 258-262, 2006 Administration of nabilone for postoperative pain control in the marijuana addicted: case report. Gofeld M, Robinson S, Faclier G. Acute Pain, 8:29-32, 2006Radiofrequency facets denervation - a randomized control placebo versus sham procedure. Gofeld M. Clin J Pain, 22:4, 410, 2006Gofeld M, Christakis M. Sonographically guided ilioinguinal nerve block. J Ultrasound Med, 25(12):1571-5, 2006Niv D, Gofeld M. Lumbar sympathetic blockade; Celiac plexus block; Splanchnic nerves block – chapters in Radiographic Imaging for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management, 2nd edn [pending publication]Lumbar Facet Radiofrequency Denervation – 10-years Prospective Clinical Audit [accepted for publication, Pain Physician]

ONGOING PROJECTS:

Academic activity:Director of the peer-course educational program Interventional Pain Management, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, CanadaLecturer Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Research:Niv D, Gofeld M. Percutaneous Neural Destructive Procedures – the chapter in Neural Blockade in Clinical Anesthesia and Management of Pain, Forth Edition. Edittors: M.J.Cousins and P.O.Bridenbaugh [in preparation], to be published in 2008Suprascapular Pulsed Radiofrequency vs. Suprascapular Nerve Block for Chronic Shoulder Pain – RCBDT [launched]]Psychological predictors of outcome of interventional pain procedures [launched]Validation of clinical criteria of chronic facet joint syndrome [launched]Prospective audit of interventional cancer pain procedures [launched]Efficacy of radiofrequency Biacuplasty in chronic discogenic pain, RCDBT [in project]Interventional cancer pain management - pain control and quality of life. Prospective cohort study [in project]

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