Pain Medicine Fellowship

The Department of Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University is proud to direct the institution's first and only multidisciplinary pain management fellowship. Accredited by the ACGME in 2008, our fellowship combines extensive experience with advanced interventional techniques in addition to rotations in regional anesthesia, addiction psychiatry, neurology, radiology, spine, neurosurgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, cancer pain and palliative care.

Fellowship Program Director: Puneet Mishra, MD

Fellowship Coordinator: Jillian Powell

Fellowship Curriculum

Trainees in the fellowship program will be extensively exposed to strategies of pain management by both anesthesiologists and faculty from other disciplines. The fellows, regardless of their primary specialty, should be competent in pain assessment, formulation and coordination of a multiple modality treatment plan, integration of pain treatment with primary disease management and palliative care.


  • Rotation Information and Schedule

    • 26 weeks - Interventional Pain Center at Vanderbilt at One Hundred Oaks
    • 2 weeks -  Neurology & Neuroradiology
    • 6 weeks - Inpatient and Acute Pain Service
    • 2 weeks - Addiction Psychiatry
    • 2 weeks - Cancer Pain
    • 1 week - Palliative Care
    • 1 week - PM&R (Physiatry)
    • 2 weeks - Pediatric Pain
    • 10 weeks - flex time 

    Electives for Pain Management Fellow

    Fellows can choose from four (4) electives:

    • Neurosurgical Pain
    • Private/Academic Pain Practice (Cool Springs)
    • Research (Clinical/Basic Science)
    • Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health

  • All applications for our Pain Anesthesiology fellowship are accepted each year from Dec. 1 through March 14 in ERAS (ACGME Program ID # 5304704001), the online application service of the AAMC. Letters of recommendation should be addressed to the program director, Dr. Puneet Mishra.

    Visit the NRMP Match website, click on the "Fellowship Timeline" button and follow the prompts to register for a match. There will be a nominal fee charged by the NRMP Match organization for registering your application. Be sure to read, complete and send all of your application materials using ERAS.

    If you have any questions, contact:
    Jillian Powell
    Administrative Manager
    (615) 936-7616
    jillian.h.powell@vumc.org

    Pain Medicine Fellowship Coordinator
    Vanderbilt Interventional Pain Clinic
    One Hundred Oaks
    719 Thompson Lane, Suite 22209
    Nashville, TN 37204