Teresa E. Dews, MD, is a graduate of the University of Toledo and of the Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Dews performed her residency in anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic.  Also at Cleveland Clinic, she completed a fellowship in Pain Management.

Currently, she is a Vice Chair of the Department of Pain Management and the medical director of the Pain Management Clinic at Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.  Prior to this position she served as the Director of the Cleveland Clinic Outpatient Pain Management Center Operations and the Quality Review Officer for the Cleveland Clinic Department of Pain Management in the Anesthesiology Institute.  Additionally, Dr. Dews is involved in medical student and physician education and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Westewrn Reserve University. 

Published in several scientific journals, she has written on many topics including medication management for chronic pain.  Dr. Dews is currently working on treatment outcomes in outpatient pain management.

Dr. Dews has been recognized as one of Northern Ohio Live's "Top Doctors", selected as a member of Kaleidoscope magazine's "Forty Club" and inducted into Cleveland Heights High School's Alumni Hall of Fame.

Active in many professional organizations, Dr. Dews in a member of: American Pain Society, American Society of Anesthesiologists, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians,   American Society of Regional Anesthesia, International Spine Injection Society, National Association of Medical Minority Educators, National Medical Association, North American Spine Society and the Ohio Society of Anesthesiologists.

Fellowship - Cleveland Clinic

Pain Management
Cleveland, OH USA
1992

Residency - Cleveland Clinic

Anesthesiology
Cleveland, OH USA
1992

Medical School - Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Cleveland, OH USA
1988

Undergraduate - University of Toledo

Biology
Toledo, OH USA
1984

• Anesthesiology
• Anesthesiology- Pain Medicine

• American Society of Anesthesiologists
• American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
• American Society of Regional Anesthesia
• American Pain Society
• International Spine Injection Society

• Celiac Plexus Block
• Cervical, Thoracic And Lumbar Radiofrequency Ablation
• Cervical,thoracic And Lumbar Epidural Injections
• Cervical,thoracic And Lumbar Facet Joint Blocks
• Comprehensive Pain Management
• Discograms
• Epidural Steroid Injection
• Facet Median Nerve Branch Block
• Hypogastric Plexus Block
• Interventional Pain Management
• Joint Injections
• Lumbar Sympathetic Block
• Management of Back and Neck Pain
• Nerve Blocks
• Occipital Nerve Block
• Pain Control
• Radiofrequency Ablation
• Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy
• Selective Nerve Root Injection
• Stellate Ganglion Block
• Sympathetic Nerve Blocks
• Trigeminal Nerve Block
• Viscosupplementation

• Acute Low/Mechanical Back Pain
• Arthritis
• Back Pain
• Bursitis
• Cancer
• Cancer Related Fatigue
• Cervical Radiculopathy
• Chronic Back Pain
• Chronic Myofascial Pain (CMP)
• Chronic Pain
• Coccydynia
• Common Causes of Back Pain
• Degenerative Back Conditions
• Degenerative Neck conditions
• Elbow Problems
• Facet Joint Syndrome
• Fibromyalgia
• Herniated Disc
• Lateral Epicondylitis/tennis Elbow
• Low Back Pain
• Musculoskeletal Pain
• Neck Pain
• Nerve Injuries
• Neuropathy - Diabetic
• Occipital Headache
• Osteoarthritis
• Peripheral Neuropathy
• Radiculopathy
• Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome (RSDS)
• Rotator Cuff Injury
• Sciatica
• Shingles (Varicella-Zoster Virus)
• Spine Pain
• Spondylosis
• Stenosis - Spinal
• Trochanteric Bursitis
• Whiplash

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