Anil K Sharma MD

Pain Medicine

President, Spine and Pain Centers of NJ and NY President, Third Eye Capital Management President, Sharma Family Foundation

Summary

Dr. Anil Sharma is an anesthesiologist with subspecialty training in pain medicine, practicing in Wall Township, NJ. He completed his residency in anesthesiology at Monmouth Medical Center and a fellowship in pain medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Dr. Sharma serves as the Director at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch Campus, and has been President of Spine and Pain since 1996. His expertise includes the treatment of sciatica, neck pain, and herniated discs, using procedures like epidural steroid injections and discography. He has a substantial publication record, including highly cited articles on low back pain and lumbar injections. Dr. Sharma has received numerous accolades, including being named a NJ Monthly Top Doc from 2012 to 2025, and he was the Best Graduating Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1995.

Sciatica, Epidural steroid injection, Discography, Neck pain, Herniated disc, Vertebral stress fractures, Leg pain, Neural stimulation, Epidural injections, Radiofrequency ablation, Facet syndrome, Botulinum toxin injections for headache, Spine arthritis, Diskogenic pain, Spine disorders, Interventional pain management, Musculoskeletal injuries, Evidence based spinal procedures

NJ Monthly Top Doc NJ Monthly, 2012-2023
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Intelligent Medical Software (IMS), SuiteMed, 2011
Best Graduating Fellow Cleveland clinic foundation, 1995

PubMed

Journal Articles

Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain
Anil K Sharma, Spine, 2020
The Effectiveness and Risks of Fluoroscopically Guided Lumbar Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injections: A Systematic Review with Comprehensive Analysis of the Publishe...
David J Kennedy, Anil K Sharma, Yakov Vorobeychik, Jessica Jameson, Maxim Moradian, Ronald Wasserman, Pain Medicine
The Effectiveness and Risks of Fluoroscopically Guided Lumbar Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injections: A Systematic Review with Comprehensive Analysis of the Publishe...
Anil K Sharma, http://painmedicine.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/06/20/pm.pnw131.abstract, 6/2016

Books/Book Chapters

Symptom Oriented Pain Management
Chapter: Discogenic pain
Anil K SharmaISBN# 93502579712015
Practice Guidelines for “Spinal Diagnostic and Treatment Procedures
Chapter: Standards Committee member - Review
NIKOLAI BOGDUK International spine intervention society ISISEdition 2nd,2014
Interventional Pain Management- a practical approach”
Chapter: IDET and Radiofrequency Denervation
Anil K SharmaISBN # 978 81 8448 319 22012

Member, NASS - Evidence Based Clinical Guidelines Committee 2007 - Present
Director of pain management, Monmouth Medical Center 2003 - Present
Member, Standards Committee- International Spinal Intervention Society 2007 - 2020
Section Editor, Spine line Journal- North American Spine Society 2007 - 2013
President, New Jersey Society of Interventional Pain Physicians 2007 - 2009