Education
Medical school
Sherif Meleka attended medical school and graduated in
1981 (41 years ago).
About Me
Sherif Meleka is a solo practitioner.
- Pain Management
- Internal Medicine, Interventional Pain Management
- 41+ years
- Male
- 1679641179
Hospital Affiliations
Sherif Meleka is affiliated with the following hospitals.
Johns Hopkins Hospital, The
As a pain management, internal medicine, and interventional pain management, Sherif Meleka may see patients with the following conditions. Please check with Sherif Meleka what conditions he treats. Sherif Meleka may treat additional conditions not listed.
- Abdominal pain
- Acute pain
- Anemia
- Angina
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Atherosclerosis
- Back pain
- Bladder control
- Calciphylaxis
Specialties
Sherif Meleka is a pain management, internal medicine, and interventional pain management. His primary specialty is pain management.
Pain Management
Pain management is an aspect of medicine and health care involving relief of pain (pain relief, analgesia, pain control) in various dimensions, from acute and simple to chronic and challenging. Most physicians and other health professionals provide some pain control in the normal course of their practice, and for the more complex instances of pain, they also call on additional help from a medical specialty devoted to pain, which is called pain medicine. Pain management often uses a multidisciplinary approach for easing the suffering and improving the quality of life of anyone experiencing pain, whether acute pain or chronic pain.
Internal Medicine
Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of internal diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists. Because internal medicine patients are often seriously ill or require complex investigations, internists do much of their work in hospitals. Internists often have subspecialty interests in diseases affecting particular organs or organ systems.
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."