BIOGRAPHY

Dr. David Spinner is Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine (Mount Sinai) and the Director of Pain Medicine and Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery for the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine (Mount Sinai); he is also the Department’s new Site Director for all Downtown and Brooklyn. Dr. Spinner is the Director ofPublic Relations at the World Academy of Paine Medicine Ultrasonography and a Board Examiner of Certified Interventional Pain Sonologists.

He is originally from New York City and a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. He went on to attend Emory University. While at Emory, he completed research in the prestigious applied physiology laboratory researching interactions between the musculoskeletal system, spinal cord and central pattern generation. Dr. Spinner went on to attend medical school at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. He then completed his internship at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn and his residency at the Icahn School of Medicine. Upon completion of residency, Dr. Spinner went on to complete an Interventional Pain Fellowship at Harvard University’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard Spine Center, winner of the pain medicine fellowship excellence award in 2015 by The American Academy of Pain Medicine.

Dr. Spinner is one of the first physicians in the country to become certified in diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasonography and lectures nationally on musculoskeletal interventions. He was the lead editor for the first textbook on the topic, Atlas of Ultrasound Guided Musculoskeletal Injections. He also has numerous publications in various textbooks and journals.

Having been trained in a Rehabilitation Medicine Program, an Anesthesia Pain Fellowship and at the Harvard Spine Center, he performs a wide variety musculoskeletal pathologies with a focus on advanced spine interventions, minimally invasive spine surgery and ultrasound guided interventions. He has a unique approach to treating both acute and chronic pain.

In May 2005 he will begin a three-year tern as President of World Institute of Pain, which will include his presiding over the 4th WIP World Congress in September 2007 in Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Racz holds the certificate of Diplomat with the American College of Pain Management as well as the American Board of Anesthesiology certification in Pain Management and the WIP Fellow in Interventional Pain Practice certification.