Medical Director of New York's Addiction Recovery Institute Named Top Doctor in Pain Management for 2004
Westchester County Physician Clifford M. Gevirtz, MD, MPH, Lauded by National Medical Group for Four Consecutive Years
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (PRWEB) July 8, 2004 -
A renowned national authority in the areas of pain management, anesthesiology, and anesthesia assisted opiate detoxification, Dr. Clifford M. Gevirtz has been selected as one of the "Top Doctors in Pain Management: New York Metro Area" for the fourth consecutive year by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd, publisher of New York Magazine's Top Doctors List. "Inclusion in this group is an acknowledgement of the high quality of Dr. Gevirtz's practice and the esteem in which his fellow physicians hold him," said Marc E. Koch, MD, MBA, president and chief executive officer of Somnia, Inc, a national anesthesia and pain management company.
In 1996, Dr. Gevirtz was the first physician to perform Ultra-rapid Opiate Detoxification in the United States and has since proctored over a dozen other physicians in the procedure. He has published numerous articles and textbook chapters on anesthesia-assisted detoxification, in addition to lecturing to national medical audiences on the link between pain management and addiction. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology and the American Board of Pain Medicine as well as a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. His zeal to leverage avant-garde therapeutic techniques to assist patients has been featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Under Dr. Gevirtz's esteemed leadership, the Addiction Recovery Institute has been recognized as a national resource on drug addiction and detoxification by the National Press Club in Washington DC.
Before joining the Addiction Recovery Institute, Dr. Gevirtz served as Chief of Anesthesiology at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Mt. Sinai Hospital and School of Medicine. His distinguished career has included clinical and teaching positions at New York Medical College, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York University and Bellevue Hospital. He received his medical degree from Tulane University and completed his anesthesia residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In addition, he completed anesthesia fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, the renowned teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
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About the Addiction Recovery Institute
The Addiction Recovery Institute is a comprehensive outpatient detoxification center caring for patients overcoming prescription drug dependency, opiate addiction and alcohol abuse. Offices located in Manhattan and New Rochelle, NY. For additional information, call 212-223-3600 or visit www. detox24.com.
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