Daewoong Lee, MD

Dr. Daewoong Lee, MD, earned his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He trained at the University of Chicago for an internal medicine internship, at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital for an anesthesiology residency, and then at Mayo Clinic in Rochester for an interventional pain medicine fellowship.

He is the only board-certified pain physician in the region, and additionally earned double board-certification from the American Board of Anesthesiology. He is double-board certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine. Dr. Lee emphasizes that pain is a subjective experience, and thus, when a patient reports pain, she or he does indeed have pain. Many painful conditions arise from arthritis, surgery, accident, cancer, diabetes and other health issues. He will tailor treatments for each patient.

In his fight against chronic pain, he employs state-of-the-art technologies based on the latest research evidence. Some of the procedures that he offers include the following:

• Spinal Cord Stimulation
• Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
• Basivertebral Ablation
• Interspinous Spacer Implant
• Kyphoplasty
• Ultrasound-guided Peripheral Nerve Blocks
• Fluoroscopy-guided Injections
• Sympathetic Blocks
• Platelet-Rich Plasma
• Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate

Clinical Internets

• Chronic pain management
• Neuromodulation (Nevro, Abbott, Medtronic, Boston Scientific)
• Spinal cord stimulation
• Dorsal root ganglion stimulation
• Peripheral nerve stimulation (Sprint, Nalu)
• Vertebrogenic low back pain / basivertebral nerve ablation (Intracept, Stryker)
• Lumbar spinal stenosis / interspinous spacer
• Sacroiliac joint pain and posterior SI joint fusion (PainTEQ LinQ, Nevro N1)
• Vertebral compression fractures / kyphoplasty
• Ultrasound-guided regional and peripheral nerve blocks
• Fluoroscopy-guided spinal injections
• Complex regional pain syndrome and sympathetic blocks
• Cancer pain
• Arthritis and osteoarthritis pain
• Post-surgical and post-traumatic pain
• Diabetic peripheral neuropathy

Publications

Dr. Lee has authored eight chapters in Specialty Imaging: Acute and Chronic Pain Intervention, a leading image-based reference textbook for interventional pain physicians. His peer-reviewed work spans interventional pain medicine and perioperative anesthesiology, with publications in journals including Pain Medicine and Neurogastroenterology & Motility, and presentations before the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the International Anesthesia Research Society. Topics have ranged from complications of fluoroscopically guided epidural steroid injection to perioperative risk assessment, aspiration of gastric contents in the operating room and national trends in access to elective surgical procedures.

Dr. Lee's research background began well before medical school, with published work in tropical ecology and space physics, a reflection of the broad scientific curiosity he brings to his clinical practice today.

Professional Societies

• American Society of Anesthesiologists 
• American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
• North American Neuromodulation Society
• American Academy of Pain Medicine
• Spine Intervention Society

He loves to hike, ski, travel, read and enjoys spending time with his wife and four children.