Dr. Sudhir Diwan is the Medical Director of the Division of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology, and Director of the Tri-Institutional Pain Fellowship Program. As Medical Director, he provides strategic direction for the Division to provide cutting edge interventional modalities. Dr. Diwan's main interests are advanced interventional techniques, including minimally invasive spinal procedures, radiofrequency neurolysis, neuroaugmentation techniques and intrathecal pain therapies. He has authored and co-authored several book chapters and written articles on various topics in peer reviewed journals in pain medicine. Currently, Dr. Diwan is busy writing a text book on “Intrathecal Drug Therapies” and an “Atlas of Pain Medicine Procedures.”
Dr. Diwan was invited Guest Editor for The Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management journal of October 2009, and serves on the Editorial Board for Pain Physician, an official journal of American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP). He has appeared as guest speaker for many organizations, including the American Cancer Society, and has served as faculty in several review courses and workshops regionally, nationally and internationally. He has been course director of Tri-Institutional Pain Medicine Fellowship Grand Rounds since 2003 and course director of Cornell Pain Medicine Symposium: evidence based practice of Pain Medicine since 2007.
Dr. Diwan was selected as one of America’s Top Physicians in 2003, Best Doctors in the New York Metro Area in 2008 and 2009, America’s Top Doctors 2009 and America’s Top Doctors for Cancer Pain in 2009 by Castle Connolly. He was the recipient of the Physician of the Year Award in 2007, awarded by the Nursing Council at the New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Diwan has provided his expertise in pain medicine to articles appearing in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and the Daily News. He has made various television appearances including Fox 5’s Good Day New York and CBS News for segments on various pain medicine topics.
After completing his residency in Anesthesiology at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia University, Dr. Diwan completed the pain medicine fellowship in the Department of Anesthesiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in 1997. Dr. Diwan joined the Weill Cornell Medical College faculty in 1998 and was named Medical Director of the Division of Pain Medicine and Tri-Institutional Pain Medicine Fellowship in 2001. He received his Masters of Surgery from the Sheth K.M. School of Postgraduate Medicine and Research at the Sheth Vadilal Sarabhai General Hospital in Ahmedabad, State of Gujarat, India in 1983.
