Seth A. Waldman, MD

Dr. Seth Waldman has more than fifteen years of experience in the field of interventional and medical pain management. He specializes in therapeutic and diagnostic spinal injections, and the management of neurologic pain.

A native of New York, Dr. Waldman is a graduate of the six-year accelerated biomedical education program at Union University and the Albany Medical College. Following graduate school, he was a resident in general surgery and internal medicine at Mount Sinai Medical School - Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. His specialty training in anesthesiology was completed at the Harvard Medical School - Beth Israel Hospital, where he was chosen as Chief Resident in Anesthesiology and Critical Care during his senior year. Dr. Waldman then remained at Harvard for additional fellowship training in pain management, which was completed at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Beth Israel Hospital in 1994. Since that time, he has been in practice at the prestigious Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan, and he has been the Director of the Division of Pain Medicine at the hospital since 1996. He is board-certified both in anesthesiology and pain medicine.

Dr. Waldman received the Donald P. Todd Award for Outstanding Fellow in Pain Management (the ‘Golden-Needle Award’) from Massachusetts General Hospital, and has been listed in New York Magazine’s Best Doctor’s in New York every year since 2001. He was recently given the Best Fellowship Teacher of the Year Award from the Pain Medicine Division at Cornell University.

Dr. Waldman was one of the founders of the Tri-Institutional Pain Medicine Fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical College, the largest post-graduate pain fellowship training program in the northeast, and remains the Hospital for Special Surgery site director of the faculty. In 2007, he developed the Interventional Pain Management Training Program for the Psycho-Motor Skills Teaching Laboratory at HSS.

He has an academic appointment as Assistant Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College, and is Consultant in Pain Management at the Winifred Masterson Burke Rehabilitation Hospital in White Plains, New York. In addition to his clinical practice at Hospital for Special Surgery, he has served as a member of the Anesthesiology Department’s quality assurance committee, and on the editorial board of The HSS Journal.