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Office
16650 Southwest Freeway
Suite 550
Sugar Land, TX 77479Phone+1 713-337-7246Fax+1 832-532-0414- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. Christian Peccora believes in a multi-modal approach to pain management, including physical therapy, acupuncture, pain psychology, massage, medications, spinal cord neuromodulation, and interventional procedures. He has expertise in the treatment of headache, neck and back pain, nerve pain, post-surgical pain, and joint pain and believes therapies should be customized to each patient. He received his MD at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston where he graduated with honors and was chosen to be in the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He stayed at BCM for an internship in internal medicine. This was followed by a residency in Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, where he also completed a fellowship in Pain Medicine. He was chosen as the Distinguished Resident of his class and won the Fellow of the Year Award. While in Boston, he engaged in numerous research projects and has published articles and book chapters on the neurophysiology of chronic pain, peripheral nerve stimulation, intrathecal pumps, postoperative pain, and medical ethics.
Dr. Peccora is a dual board-certified physician and member of the American Society of Anesthesiology, International Spine Intervention Society, and other medical organizations. He is an avid traveler and fluent in Spanish, a tennis and running enthusiast, a musician, and a community volunteer. He grew up in southwest Houston and is a part of the patient care team in our Sugar Land location.
Dr. Christian Peccora is accepting new patients, and looks forward to being your partner in health!
Education & Training
- Brigham and Women's HospitalFellowship, Pain Medicine, 2014 - 2015
- Harvard Medical SchoolPost Doc, 2011 - 2015
- Brigham and Women's HospitalResidency, Anesthesiology, 2011 - 2014
- Baylor College of MedicineInternship, Internal Medicine, 2010 - 2011
- Baylor College of MedicineClass of 2010
Certifications & Licensure
- TX State Medical License 2015 - 2025
- MA State Medical License 2014 - 2016
- American Board of Anesthesiology Anesthesiology
- American Board of Anesthesiology Pain Medicine
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 14 citationsSingle S1 Dorsal Root Ganglia Stimulation for Intractable Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Foot Pain After Lumbar Spine Surgery: A Case SeriesIoannis Skaribas, Christian Peccora, Elena E. Skaribas> ;Neuromodulation. 2019 Jan 1
- 6 citationsPublishing Trends in Two American Journals in Anesthesiology—Results of an 80-Year Geographical SurveyChristian Peccora, Richard Hsu, Cyrus Yazdi, Jessica Shanahan, Sukumar P. Desai> ;Journal of Anesthesia History. 2016 Jan 1
- 16 citationsSacral neuromodulation as a treatment for pudendal neuralgia.Assia T. Valovska, Christian D. Peccora, Cyril N Philip, Alan D. Kaye, Richard D. Urman> ;Pain Physician. 2014 Sep 1
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Hospital Affiliations
- Memorial Hermann Southwest HospitalHouston, Texas
- Memorial Hermann Sugar Land HospitalSugar Land, Texas
- Memorial Hermann Physician NetworkHouston, Texas
- Houston Methodist Sugar Land HospitalSugar Land, Texas
- Houston Methodist HospitalHouston, Texas
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