Pain Management Expert Joins Albany Med Staff
ALBANY, N.Y., November 13, 2007-Charles E. Argoff, M.D, an expert in pain management, has joined the staff of the department of neurology at Albany Medical Center and has been appointed professor of neurology at Albany Medical College. Dr. Argoff comes to Albany Med from North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., where he served as attending physician and director of the Cohn Pain Management Center.
After earning his medical degree from Northwestern University in Chicago, Dr. Argoff performed his residency at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Following his residency, he was an assistant professor of neurology at the School of Medicine at the New York University Medical Center. He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Pain Medicine.
Dr. Argoff's special interests include the use of Botox in the management of chronic pain and the mechanisms and treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain. He has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, among other publications, and serves on the editorial board for the Clinical Journal of Pain and Applied Neurology.
Albany Medical Center is northeastern New York's only academic health sciences center. It consists of Albany Medical College, Albany Medical Center Hospital and the Albany Medical Center Foundation, Inc. Additional information about Albany Medical Center can be found at www.amc.edu.
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