Medical Director of New York's Addiction Recovery Institute Named Top Doctor in Pain Management for 2004
Westchester County Physician Clifford M. Gevirtz, MD, MPH, Lauded by National Medical Group for Four Consecutive Years
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (PRWEB) July 8, 2004 –- A renowned national authority in the
areas of pain management, anesthesiology, and anesthesia assisted opiate
detoxification, Dr. Clifford M. Gevirtz has been selected as one of the "Top
Doctors in Pain Management: New York Metro Area" for the fourth consecutive year
by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd, publisher of New York Magazine's Top Doctors
List. "Inclusion in this group is an acknowledgement of the high quality of Dr.
Gevirtz's practice and the esteem in which his fellow physicians hold him," said
Marc E. Koch, MD, MBA, president and chief executive officer of Somnia, Inc, a
national anesthesia and pain management company.
In 1996, Dr. Gevirtz was the first physician to perform Ultra-rapid
Opiate Detoxification in the United States and has since proctored over a dozen
other physicians in the procedure. He has published numerous articles and
textbook chapters on anesthesia-assisted detoxification, in addition to
lecturing to national medical audiences on the link between pain management and
addiction. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology and the
American Board of Pain Medicine as well as a member of the American Society of
Addiction Medicine. His zeal to leverage avant-garde therapeutic techniques to
assist patients has been featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street
Journal. Under Dr. Gevirtz's esteemed leadership, the Addiction Recovery
Institute has been recognized as a national resource on drug addiction and
detoxification by the National Press Club in Washington DC.
Before
joining the Addiction Recovery Institute, Dr. Gevirtz served as Chief of
Anesthesiology at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Associate
Professor of Anesthesiology at Mt. Sinai Hospital and School of Medicine. His
distinguished career has included clinical and teaching positions at New York
Medical College, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York University and
Bellevue Hospital. He received his medical degree from Tulane University and
completed his anesthesia residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In
addition, he completed anesthesia fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital,
the renowned teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
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About
the Addiction Recovery Institute
The Addiction Recovery Institute is a
comprehensive outpatient detoxification center caring for patients overcoming
prescription drug dependency, opiate addiction and alcohol abuse. Offices
located in Manhattan and New Rochelle, NY. For additional information, call
212-223-3600 or visit www.detox24.com .
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/7/prweb139304.htm