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Best Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine Doctors in Bethesda & Montgomery County (2026)

Anesthesiologists with fellowship training in pain medicine, treating chronic back and neck pain, nerve pain, joint pain, and cancer pain with interventional procedures. Our editorial team ranks these 4 doctors on credentials, training, peer recognition, and verified patient-review data.

  1. Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine Rockville

    Chairman of the pain management division at Shady Grove Medical Center, dual-certified in anesthesiology and pain management, and a repeat Washingtonian and Bethesda Magazine Top Doctor.

    Board certified Accepting patients Washingtonian Top Doctor (pain management), multiple years
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  2. Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine Bethesda

    A retired Army Lieutenant Colonel who ran the pain clinics at Walter Reed and Landstuhl before entering private practice — and one of the first four physicians in the country certified in interventional headache medicine.

    Board certified Accepting patients Among the first four physicians in the country board certified by the American Board of Interventional Headache Medicine
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  3. Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine Bethesda

    A Johns Hopkins interventional pain physician with a Mass General fellowship who sees patients in Bethesda — one of the few pain specialists in the county who consults in Yoruba as well as English.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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  4. Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine Rockville

    Dual-certified in anesthesiology and pain management with a Mount Sinai interventional fellowship and nearly three decades in practice — the deep-bench experience that complex, long-running pain problems usually need.

    Board certified Accepting patients
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By the numbers

4
doctors in our registry — 3% of all 139

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 they trained

The 4 doctors whose medical school we could place studied at 4 institutions, all in the United States.

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All 4 schools
  • Howard University College of Medicine — Washington, DC
  • New York Medical College — Valhalla, NY
  • SUNY Upstate Medical University — Syracuse, NY
  • University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry — Rochester, NY

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 4 of 4 profiles whose medical school we could place on the map; 0 record none. How we build this list.