When Back Surgery Fails

Guest Bio: Dr. Marshall Bedder, MD

Dr. Bedder is a Canadian born and trained physician, now a naturalized US citizen. He is an ABA boarded anesthesiologist with added qualifications in pain medicine and certification in addiction medicine by the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM). Dr. Bedder is the former head of the Pain Management Center at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) where he established a Anesthesia Pain Fellowship training program. He also helped to establish the hands-on workshops for implantable therapies, which are now the industry standard. Dr. Bedder continues to present extensively on pain management and addiction medicine topics world-wide. He has published over 30 original journal articles, reviews and textbook chapters.

Dr. Bedder is past President-Elect for the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS), and has served on the Editorial Board for the Journal Neuromodulation and is a reviewer for the journals Neuromodulation and Pain Medicine. He served as the pain medicine and anesthesia member for the Alaska and Washington Medicare carrier advisory committee (CAC). Dr. Bedder served as Director of Anesthesia Services and Pain Fellowship Director for the Alaska Spine Institute in Anchorage, Alaska.

Dr Bedder relocated to the Pacific Northwest in 2009 and is the Director of Interventional Pain for Pacific Medical Centers (PacMed) in Seattle, WA. PacMed is a multispecialty medical group comprising over 150 primary care providers and specialty physicians. He also serves as a Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, in the United States Navy (Reserve). He is attached to the 4th Med Btn, 4th Marine Logistics Group.