Pain is the PITS!: A Pain Management Program to Answer America's Opioid Crisis

Kechejian, Peter A.: - Peter A. Kechejian, MD, CPE (Dr. K) is a board-certified Pain Management Specialist and Certified Pain Educator who for the last twenty-five years has been taking care of pain patients on Long Island, New York. He is the creator of the U.S. registered and trademarked Pain is the PITS Program for the medical treatment of chronic pain. Dr. K is also the President and CEO of PITS Program, LLC, a Texas-based pain management educational company. For over two decades Dr. K has been a passionate educational pain management speaker on Long Island and has produced video and podcast multi-media pain management program presentations for both the public and for healthcare professionals. His hope is that the Pain is the PITS Program will be the first universally recognized chronic pain management educational methodology in America, easy for all to understand and follow. The program will bring the patient and their pain management team together for the best assessment and management of pain and will help answer the Opioid Crisis question in this country by providing an integrative, more balanced approach to treatment options for chronic pain. A graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., he completed his residency in Anesthesiology and a Fellowship in Pain Management at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center (now UMass Memorial Health Care), in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain, the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, and other professional organizations. He is board-certified in Pain Management and Anesthesiology through the American Board of Anesthesiology and is a Certified Pain Educator through the American Society of Pain Educators. Currently, his pain management practice is focusing on the safe minimally invasive outpatient medical and interventional techniques for the treatment of acute and chronic neck and back spine pain conditions with Total Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, a New York-based medical group, utilizing the Pain is the PITS Program philosophy of care as an educational patient adherence guide for the best multidisciplinary integrative clinical care that America has to offer. Dr. Kechejian and his wife of 31 years Dr. Joanne Massina Kechejian, an Internal Medicine physician, have four children and live on Long Island. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, chess, and traveling with his family.