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Sharon M. Weinstein, MD, Neurology, Salt Lake City, UT, George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Sharon M.WeinsteinMDFAAHPM

Neurology Salt Lake City, UT

Pain Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Attending Physician VA Salt Lake City Health Care System; Professor of Anesthesiology, Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine (Retired); Medical Director, Suncrest Hospice of Utah

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Summary

  • I am a board certified neurologist with added qualifications in Pain Medicine and in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. I trained in medicine and neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, completed pain fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, then worked at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center before coming to the University of Utah.

    I practice integrative pain and supportive care medicine at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Salt Lake City Health Care System where I established the Holistic Medicine Service. I serve as the VA National Lead for Massage Therapy with the Integrative Health Coordinating Center. I am medical director for Suncrest Hospice of Utah. As a voluntary servant in the state department of health I have made contributions in regulatory and policy areas of my expertise. Currently I serve with the Utah Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Board. I retired (July 2023) from the University of Utah after 25 years in pain medicine and palliative care at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. I acted as a pain medicine and palliative care consultant at Primary Children's Medical Center for over twenty years. I was a founding member of both the Pain and Palliative Care Guidelines Panels of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. I am a Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and a Faculty Scholar of the Open Society Institute's Project on Death in America. I have been licensed in massage therapy for 45 years, and study complementary/alternative medicine now known as complementary/integrative health.
    I have conducted research on neuropathic pain, opioids, novel nonopioid analgesics and cannabinoids.

    I have a background in the performing arts. I enjoy spending time with my family, especially in the outdoors, dancing and making music.
    It is of paramount importance to me that physicians advocate for the doctor-patient relationship so that we may fulfill our oath to relieve human suffering.

Education & Training

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterFellowship, Pain Medicine, 1990 - 1991
  • Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of MedicineResidency, Neurology, 1987 - 1990
  • Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Moses and Weiler Campuses)
    Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Moses and Weiler Campuses)Internship, Internal Medicine, 1986 - 1987
  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    Albert Einstein College of MedicineClass of 1986

Certifications & Licensure

  • UT State Medical License
    UT State Medical License 1998 - 2026
  • TX State Medical License
    TX State Medical License 1991 - 1999
  • NY State Medical License
    NY State Medical License 1987 - 1991
  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology
  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2009-2015
  • America's Top Doctors for Cancer Castle Connolly, 2005-2013, 2015

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Other Languages

  • Spanish

Hospital Affiliations