Thomas Phillip Cestare, MD| Pain Medicine | MedStar Health
About me
Areas of clinical interest
- Chronic pain conditions including neuropathic pain, spinal pain, and musculoskeletal pain
- Interventional pain medicine (epidural steroid injections, facet radiofrequency ablation, and genicular radiofrequency ablation, and sympathetic blocks)
- Neuromodulation (spinal cord stimulation, dorsal root ganglion stimulation, and peripheral nerve stimulation)
Philosophy of care
“I focus on care of the whole patient through a multi-modal, multidisciplinary, and individualized approach to each patient’s pain.”
Board certifications:
- Board Certification: American Board of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology
- Board Certification: American Board of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine
Clinical areas of focus
- Pain Management
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome (AMPS)
- Causalgia Of Lower Limb
- Causalgia Of Upper Limb
- Chronic Pain
- Degenerative Spine Pain
- Diabetic Neuropathy
- Erythromelalgia
- Facet Joint Syndrome
- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- HIV Neuropathy
- Intractable Pain
- Lumbosacral Radiculopathy
- Mononeuritis
- Mononeuritis Multiplex
- Musculocutaneous Neuropathy
- Nerve Compression Syndrome
- Neuralgia
- Neuritis
- Neuropathy
- Pain Amplification Syndromes
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Persistent Pain After Orthopedic Surgery
- Phantom Limb
- Plexitis
- Polyneuropathy
- Post Laminectomy Syndrome
- Post Radiation Pain
- Postherpetic Neuralgia
- Radiculopathy
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
- Spinal Stenosis
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology
Board Certification: American Board of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine
Fellowship Program: New York Presbyterian Hospital (2020)
Residency Program: MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (2019)
Internship Program: MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (2016)
Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine (2015)