SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

Motivated, enthusiastic, compassionate physician trained in physical medicine and rehabilitation and interventional pain management. Areas of expertise include but not limited to;

• Acute and Chronic pain management
• Spinal cord stimulator trials and implants (including DRG)
• Ultrasound
• Botox injections
• Minimally Invasive Indirect Decompression
• Sacroiliac Joint Fusion

PROFESSIONAL EXPERINECES:

Spanish Hills Interventional Pain Specialists, Camarillo, CA

July 2016 – Present

• On average treating 400-450 patients and performing 150+ injections/surgeries per month
• Providing treatments such as medication management and counseling, physical therapy, regenerative medicine (PRP and stem cell) injections, epidurals, facet injections, medial branch blocks, peripheral joint injections, peripheral nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablations, spinal cord stimulator trial and implantation, intrathecal test dosing, intrathecal pump implantation, sacroiliac joint fusion, minimally invasive indirect decompression, botox injections for migraine prophylaxis.
• Physician expert witness

EDUCATION:

Spanish Hills Interventional Pain Specialists, Camarillo, CA

July 2016 – Present

• On average treating 400-450 patients and performing 150+ injections/surgeries per month
• Providing treatments such as medication management and counseling, physical therapy, regenerative medicine (PRP and stem cell) injections, epidurals, facet injections, medial branch blocks, peripheral joint injections, peripheral nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablations, spinal cord stimulator trial and implantation, intrathecal test dosing, intrathecal pump implantation, sacroiliac joint fusion, minimally invasive indirect decompression, botox injections for migraine prophylaxis.
• Physician expert witness

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Medical Board of California (Licence#A135551)
• PM&R Board Certified
• ABPMR Pain Medicine Board Certified

MEMBERSHIPS:

• American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• North American Neuromodulation Society
• California Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
• Pacific Spine Pain Society (Committee Member)
• American Society of Pain and Neuroscience
• Sierra Spine Society (Faculty)
• American Spine Pain Society (Faculty)

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Spanish Hills Interventional Pain Specialists

• Top Non-Industry Ranked Abstract at California Society of Interventional Pain Physicians Meeting (CALSIPP) 2019

Rutgers/NJMS

• Golden Apple Teaching Award Nominee 2014

St. George’s University

• Dean’s List 2007-2011
• IEA Honor’s Society 2008-2011

University of Notre Dame

• Big East Academic All- American, 2002-2006
• Arthur Ashe Award Recipient (national award that exemplifies excellence in athletics, community service, and academics) 2006
• Varsity tennis team captain, 2006

PUBLICATIONS/POSTER PRESENTATIONS:

Buchanan P., Kiker D., Katouzian A., Kia F., Pope J., “Multisystem Spinal Cord Stimulation Trialing: A Single Center, Retrospective, Observational Study” Published in PAIN Practice April 10 2021.

Buchanan P., Kiker D., Katouzian A., Kia F., “Safety and Efficacy of Multivendor Spinal Cord Stimulation Trialing.”

• Poster presented at 2019 CALSIPP meeting in Lake Tahoe, CA.
• Poster presented at 2020 NANS meeting in Las Vegas, NV.

Buchanan P., Stitik T., “Medial and Lateral Plantar Nerve Hydrodissection in Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome: A Case Report.”

• Poster presented at 2014 American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.

Buchanan P., Mehta A., Gerstman B., “Interventional Treatments for Sacroiliac Joint”

• Published: Current Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Reports, March 2014, Volume 2, Issue 1

Buchanan P., Kong Y., “Encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis (EDAS) for the Treatment of Moyamoya Disease.”

• Poster presented at 2014 Association of Academic Physiatrists Annual Conference in Nashville, TN.

Buchanan P., Rand R., Levinson S., Oh-Park M., “Upper Brachial Plexopathy from Primary Nerve Sheath Tumor Mimicking Stretch Injury Post-Stroke.”

• Poster presented at 2013 Association of Academic Physiatrists Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

DISTINCT study- Evaluate using Burst spinal cord stimulation in patients with low back pain.

• Principal Investigator
• January 2021- Present

SECURE study- Post market study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the LinQ system for sacroiliac joint disease

• Principal Investigator
• April 2020- Present

PROLONG study- Evaluate patients using Abbott spinal cord stimulators after failing to sustain relief with their previous spinal cord stimulators.

• Principal Investigator
• April 2019- Present

TARGET study- Post approval study to evaluate spinal cord stimulation (DRG) in CRPS patients

• Principal Investigator
• March 2017- Present

Muscle Architecture and Resistance Exercise

• Preceptor- Dr. Thomas Findley, Director of Research Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at East Orange VA Hospital
• Dec 2014- June2016

Pain Management in Primary Surgical Inpatients

• Preceptor- Dr. Suliaman Barzideh, Chief of Surgery at Woodhull Hospital
• Jan 2010-Feb 2010

Effects of Betamethasone on Neonatal Birth Weight and Head Circumference

• Preceptor- Dr. Kim Walters, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Long Beach Memorial Hospital
• Aug 2006- March 2007

Effects of ABCA-1 protein in Nephrotic Syndrome

• Preceptor- Dr. Nosratola Vaziri, Director of Research of Nephrology, UC Irvine Medical School
• May 2005- Aug 2005

Effects of HMG- CoA Reductase and Ch7a-hydroxylase in Nephrotic Syndrome

• Preceptor- Dr. Nosratola Vaziri, Director of Research of Nephrology, UC Irvine Medical School
• May 2004- Aug 2004

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:

• Rutgers/NJMS Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Pain Journal Club Coordinator, June 2013-present
• New York Marathon Medical Volunteer, November 2013
• Rutgers/NJMS PM&R student interest group coordinator, July 2012-present
• Baldrick’s Day Shavee- Raised over $1000 in a fund-raising program for kids with cancer, May 2009
• Men’s Varsity Head Tennis Coach, Servite High School, Anaheim, California, Sept 2006-May 2007