Education
Medical school
Top Ranked School
Dr. Baek attended Duke University School of Medicine and graduated in
1998 (24 years ago). Duke University School of Medicine is a top-ranked medical school, and is ranked #6 in Best Medical Schools by U.S. News.
About Me
Dr. Baek works at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, which has 2333 other health providers.
- Anesthesiology
- Interventional Pain Management
- 24+ years
- Male
- 1124033097
As an anesthesiology and interventional pain management, Dr. Baek may see patients with the following conditions. Please check with Dr. Baek what conditions he treats. Dr. Baek may treat additional conditions not listed.
- Cancer pain
- Facet arthropathy
- General anesthesia
- Herniated disc
- Osteoarthritis
- Pain medication management
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Postherpetic neuralgia
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Regional anesthesia
Specialties
Dr. Baek is an anesthesiology and interventional pain management. His primary specialty is anesthesiology.
Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology, or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, and pain medicine. The core element of the specialty is the study and use of anesthesia to safely support a patient's vital functions through the perioperative period.
Interventional Pain Management
Interventional pain management or interventional pain medicine is a medical subspecialty defined by the National Uniforms Claims Committee (NUCC) as, "invasive interventions such as the discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain related disorders principally with the application of interventional techniques in managing sub acute, chronic, persistent, and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalities of treatment."