Dr. Kenneth B. Chapman
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8 FORT HILL PARK
New York City, NY, United States
10001
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Dr. Kenneth B. Chapman's Credentials
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Biography
Dr. Chapman is a board certified physician in Pain Management and Anesthesiology. He completed his Interventional Pain Management Fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, and his Anesthesiology residency at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, New York. Dr. Chapman has privileges at Staten Island University Hospital as well as at NYU Langone Medical Center. He is currently the director of pain management at Staten Island University Hospital, part of the North Shore LIJ system, where he leads a team of seven pain physicians. Dr. Chapman teaches residents and fellows the field of pain management and is actively involved in lecturing both nationally and internationally. Dr. Chapman frequently serves as a pain management board examiner for certification on the Fellowship of Interventional Pain Practice Pain Boards. He has won numerous peer validated awards including “America’s Best Anesthesiologists” and “Most Compassionate Doctors.” At the Cleveland Clinic Dr. Chapman won the “Ethlene R. Smith’s Most Outstanding Fellow” award. He was voted a delegate of the NYS Interventional Pain Society and is the interventional pain management representative on the advisory board to the NYS Worker’s Compensation Board where he is writing the current worker’s compensation guidelines. Dr. Chapman is also the president of the NYS Pain Management PAC. Dr. Chapman volunteers two days a month at clinics for uninsured or underinsured patients on Staten Island at both the Medical Arts Pavilion clinic at Staten Island Hospital North and the Community Health Center on Port Richmond Avenue. As a native Staten Islander he gets great satisfaction in helping in the care of the underserved communities of Staten Island. Dr. Chapman has won numerous peer validated awards including “America’s Best Anesthesiologists” and “Most Compassionate Doctors.” When treating pain patients, he works in close collaboration with referring physicians including neurologists, internists, and surgeons in an effort to avoid or potentially delay surgery, as well as to facilitate in making an unavoidable surgery more precise. Dr. Chapman is recognized for his expertise in minimally invasive treatment modalities for spinal stenosis and herniated discs. His practice was involved in the pivotal study on the MILD (Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression) procedure as well as at the forefront of pain management treatments such as endoscopic discectomy for painful herniated discs and endoscopic radiofrequency ablation for patients that have failed conventional radiofrequency. He is considered a thought leader in spinal cord stimulation and an expert in stimulation for the treatment of pelvic pain. Dr. Chapman also treats painful peripheral neuropathies such as occipital neuralgia, painful lateral femoral cutaneous neuralgia (meralgia paresthetica), facial neuralgias, reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and other intractable pain syndromes. Dr. Chapman also speaks Chinese (Mandarin).
Languages
- Mandarin
- Chinese
- Spanish
- English
Education
- St Georges University School of Medicine - Grenada (Grad. 2001)
- St George',s University (Grad. 2001)
Other Specialties
Areas of Expertise
- Discectomies & Decompression
- Radiofrequency Facet Denervation: Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar
- Hip Injections
- Pelvic Pain
- Pudendal Nerve Block
- Piriformis muscle injections
- Epidural Steroid Injection (Neck, Midback and Low Back)
- Spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain
- Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection/ Selective Nerve Root
- Kyphoplasty & Vertebroplasty
- Occipital Nerve Block
- Epidural injection (cervical, thoracic, lumbar, caudal)
- Stellate Ganglion/sympathetic Blocks
- Trigger Point Injections And Piriformis Muscle Injection
- Neuromodulation (Spinal Cord Stimulation, Peripheral Nerve and Field Stimulation)
- Ultrasound Guided Injections
- Botox For Migraine Headache, Facial spasm, dystonia
- Lumbar & Cervical Facet Joint/Medial Branch
Awards & Recognitions
- Superdoc’s Rising Stars-Pain Management
- Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors 2016
- Fellow of the Year award
- Superdoc- Pain Management
- New York Patient's Choice Award
- America's Best Anesthesiologists-Pain Management
- Super Doctors New York 2015, 2016
- New York Magazine’s Best Doctor
- America’s Best Anesthesiologist-Pain Management
- Patients’ Choice Compassionate Doctor
- Best Doctors- Pain Management
Publications & Research
- Multimodal Imagine Guidance in Interventional Procedures 1st ed.
- Atlas of Pain Medicine 1st ed
Four years ago I was in so much back pain that I was prepared to go for spine surgery. Physical therapy and over the counter medications didn't work. I was diagnosed with spinal stenosis, a herniated disc, and spondylolisthesis. I spoke to two doctors who both recommened surgery but after doing some research I found that it only had a 30-50% success rate. My internist and my physical therapist then recommended Dr Chapman to me. Dr Chapman took the time to explain all of my options. He is one of the most caring Doctors I've ever met. Everyone in the office is equally caring and professional. After receiving Epidural injections periodically, my pain was greatly reduced and I was abe to avoid the risky surgery and continue working and enjoying my life.
Submitted Feb. 24, 2013