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.
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