The Division of Pain Management offers a one year, multidisciplinary Fellowship in Pain Management, which includes acute and chronic pain syndromes, cancer pain, postoperative pain, post traumatic pain, and pain of medical origin. The goal of the Fellowship is to produce a physician who, in addition to being technically skilled, is able to diagnose and manage clinical pain problems and to provide practical solutions to them. Because of the vast scope of the pain management field, the expertise of several disciplines is brought together in an effort to provide the maximum benefit to each patient through multi-modal therapy. The Fellowship emphasizes the role of regional anesthesia techniques for the diagnosis and management of pain; and for those whose training did not include these techniques. Opportunities are available to learn them, first in the operating room, and then on the acute and chronic pain services. The JHSH of Cook County has the latest, sophisticated radiological equipment necessary to assist in the diagnosis and guidance for difficult therapeutic techniques. All of the therapeutic modalities available today, both invasive and non-invasive are available, and a vast experience is accumulated in their use in managing patients with, perhaps, the widest variety of pain syndromes available in any one center in the country. In addition to the extensive clinical experience provided, the program offers a didactic program that supports the clinical program and supplements it. This includes weekly Literature Seminar, Clinical Teaching Rounds, Didactic Lectures on the diagnosis and management of pain, and a weekly Multidisciplinary case presentation.