Roland F Chalifoux Jr DO

Summary

• Roland Chalifoux Jr, DO, is a neurosurgeon based in Clinton Township, MI, with subspecialties in neurosurgical spine surgery, pain, and peripheral nerve. He graduated from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1987 and completed his residency in neurological surgery at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital-Warren in 1995. His expertise includes pain management, management of controlled substances for patients using opioids, and treating chronic pain through neuromodulation using spinal cord stimulation and other modalities including hemilaminectomies, SI fusion, Basal Nerve Ablation, and intrathecal pain technologies to name a few of the minimally invasive modalities now used to treat spine pain primarily. He has also focused on non-operable chronic pain due to multiple morbidities and facet pain of the entire spine, as well as occipital neuralgia. He received the CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification from WritePad and Addison Health Systems, Inc. in 2013-2014.
  In 2012, he became board certified by the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP) in Interventional Pain Medicine. He is a board director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and was Director of Comprehensive Pain until the hospital he was in closed due to financial mismanagement.