Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Peju Olajide Adekoya, MD
Johns Hopkins Health Care & Surgery Center, Bethesda
Dr. Peju Olajide Adekoya is an interventional pain physician with the Johns Hopkins Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Division of Pain Medicine. He sees patients at the Johns Hopkins Health Care & Surgery Center on Rockledge Drive in Bethesda, and consults in both English and Yoruba.
Background and training
Dr. Adekoya earned his medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine and trained in anesthesiology before completing an interventional pain medicine fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard’s largest teaching hospital and one of the field’s principal training centers.
Why patients choose Dr. Adekoya
Interventional pain medicine sits between anesthesiology and long-term chronic-care management: the work involves image-guided injections, nerve blocks, and procedural treatments, but also the slower business of building a plan a patient can live with for years. Dr. Adekoya treats chronic pain, low back pain, and cancer pain more frequently than comparable providers, and practices within the Johns Hopkins system, which gives patients a direct route to spine surgery, oncology, and neurology colleagues when a pain problem turns out to be a symptom of something that needs its own treatment.
Practice focus
Chronic pain, low back and neck pain, cancer pain, nerve pain, and interventional procedures including injections and nerve blocks.
Languages and access
Dr. Adekoya speaks English and Yoruba. Johns Hopkins lists him as accepting new patients with online booking, and telehealth appointments are available for consultations and follow-ups that do not require a procedure.
Profile last fact-checked August 18, 2026. Information reflects publicly available sources and may change. Confirm details directly with the practice before booking.
How Dr. Adekoya compares
Context from the 139 providers we track across Bethesda and Montgomery County.
The only provider we list offering chronic pain
1 of the 130 providers who list their focus areas name chronic pain.
We list 2 anesthesiology & pain medicine providers serving Bethesda.
1 of 2 we list at Johns Hopkins Health Care & Surgery Center, Bethesda
We cover 2 providers at Johns Hopkins Health Care & Surgery Center, Bethesda.
1 of 2 from Howard University College of Medicine
2 of the 107 doctors whose medical school we record studied at Howard University College of Medicine.
1 of 3 Yoruba-speaking doctors
3 of the 139 providers in our registry (2%) practise in Yoruba, across 3 specialties.
Medical school: Howard University College of Medicine — Washington, DC, United States.
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. How we build this list.
Where Dr. Adekoya sits by experience
Dr. Adekoya finished medical school in 2014, 12 years ago. Of the 135 providers in our registry whose graduation year we could verify, 127 finished earlier, 6 finished later, and 1 finished the same year.
1965–69
1 provider finished 1965–19691970–74
2 providers finished 1970–19741975–79
4 providers finished 1975–19791980–84
13 providers finished 1980–19841985–89
12 providers finished 1985–19891990–94
14 providers finished 1990–19941995–99
27 providers finished 1995–19992000–04
20 providers finished 2000–20042005–09
19 providers finished 2005–2009Dr. Adekoya2014
2010–14
17 providers finished 2010–20142015–19
4 providers finished 2015–20192020–24
2 providers finished 2020–2024Among the 110 physicians we list, 106 finished medical school earlier — the median for that group is 1998.
All 12 bands
| Graduated | Providers |
|---|---|
| 1965–1969 | 1 |
| 1970–1974 | 2 |
| 1975–1979 | 4 |
| 1980–1984 | 13 |
| 1985–1989 | 12 |
| 1990–1994 | 14 |
| 1995–1999 | 27 |
| 2000–2004 | 20 |
| 2005–2009 | 19 |
| 2010–2014 — Dr. Adekoya | 17 |
| 2015–2019 | 4 |
| 2020–2024 | 2 |
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Based on the 135 of 139 profiles with a graduation year we could verify against a primary source; the remaining 4 are left out rather than estimated. How we build this list.
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