Kenneth B. Chapman, MD

Dr. Kenneth B. Chapman is board certified in Pain Management and Anesthesiology. He completed his Interventional Pain Management fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio and Anesthesiology residency at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, New York.

At the Cleveland Clinic, he was nominated Chief Fellow, and won the Ethlene R. Smith award for Most Outstanding Fellow. Dr. Chapman frequently acts as a board examiner for the Fellow Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) Pain Boards. He also is a regular instructor for the Cleveland Clinic’s continuing medical education courses for pain management specialists. Dr. Chapman is also the Director of Pain Management at Staten Island University Hospital, a 750 bed tertiary care hospital that is part of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System.

Dr. Chapman specializes in minimally invasive treatment modalities for spinal stenosis, sciatica, low back pain, neck pain, joint pain, and spinal pain of multiple origins. He also treats painful peripheral neuropathies such as occipital neuralgia, painful lateral femoral cutaneous (skin) neuralgia, facial neuralgias, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), and other intractable pain syndromes. In treating spine patients, he works closely with spine surgeons to avoid or delay surgery, as well as to make surgery more precise.

Dr. Chapman's practice philosophy focuses on individual patient treatment modalities utilizing evidence-based medicine and the newest techniques available. His practice specializes in complex pain syndromes and patients that have failed other treatment plans. View recent awards and press coverage in the news