
Neal Rakesh MD
Pain Medicine
Interventional Cancer Pain Management
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1275 York AveNew York, NY 10065
Phone+1 212-639-6851
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Summary
- Dr. Neal Rakesh is a physiatrist and pain medicine physician. He specializes in interventional cancer pain management at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
He completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his medical degree from New York Medical College and completed his Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine Center). Subsequently, he completed his Interventional Pain Management Fellowship at the Tri-Institutional Pain Fellowship (Weill Cornell, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the Hospital for Special Surgery).
Dr. Rakesh is actively involved in multiple organizations including the World Academy of Pain Medicine United and the Association of Academic Physiatrists. He is also the co-founder of Ultrasound Underground, which focuses on teaching residents and fellows about diagnostic and interventional ultrasound.
Education & Training
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterFellowship, Pain Medicine, 2020 - 2021
- New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia and Cornell Campus)Residency, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2017 - 2020
- Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of MedicineInternship, Internal Medicine, 2016 - 2017
- New York Medical CollegeClass of 2016
Certifications & Licensure
- NY State Medical License 2020 - 2025
- American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Pain Medicine
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- The Addition of Intrathecal Clonidine to Reduce Medication-Related Side-Effects in Cancer Pain: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Evgeny Bulat, Rahul Chaturvedi, Peyton Johnson, Neal Rakesh, Amitabh Gulati
Journal of Pain Research. 2025-01-01 - Safety and Efficacy of Surgical Implantation of Intrathecal Drug Delivery Pumps in Patients With Cancer With Refractory Pain.Graham M Winston, Jeffrey H Zimering, Christopher W Newman, Anne S Reiner, Noel Manalil
Neurosurgery. 2024-11-01 - 3 citationsExceptional Cases of Spinal Cord Stimulation for the Treatment of Refractory Cancer-Related Pain.Evgeny Bulat, Vikram Chakravarthy, Jason Crowther, Neal Rakesh, Ori Barzilai
Neuromodulation. 2023-07-01
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