Announcing the Pediatric Pain Medicine Clinic at UCSF

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January 9, 2025

The UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care is excited to announce the opening of our Pediatric Pain Medicine Clinic, a partnership between our Pediatric Anesthesia and Pain Medicine specialties. Our outpatient clinic will represent an expansion of our department's offerings in pediatric pain medicine.

Specialists at the Pediatric Pain Medicine Clinic:

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Dr. Evelyn Caro Mónico

Dr. Mónico is an anesthesiologist who completed ACGME fellowships pediatric anesthesia at UC Davis, adult pain medicine at Stanford, and pediatric pain medicine at Seattle Children's Hospital. She brings not just a wealth of clinical experience but also operational experience, having built high-impact multi-disciplinary pediatric pain programs during her time at Texas Children's Hospital, where she was chief of the Division of Pediatric Pain Medicine.

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Dr. Jocelyn Wong

Dr. Wong is an anesthesiologist who completed an ACGME fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a fellowship in pediatric pain medicine at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. At UCSF, she is also the TransBay director of Pediatric Regional Anesthesia and Perioperative Pain Medicine.

Our pediatric pain physicians can help to develop perioperative pain plans for patients with a history of challenging post-operative pain control or for patients with complex care needs who have concerns about recovery after surgery. Our physicians can also assist with common post-surgical pain issues like Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), medication weaning, and chronic post-surgical pain. Treatment planning may involve complex medication management and interventional pain procedures such as nerve blocks, steroid injections, and neuromodulation.

The Pediatric Pain Medicine Clinic will also see pediatric patients with chronic pain from non-surgical causes, such as back pain, sciatica, chronic abdominal pain, chronic headaches, chronic musculoskeletal pain, TMJ, pelvic pain, fibromyalgia, and pain associated with chronic childhood diseases, such as sickle cell disease.

The care we offer will enhance existing services for pediatric patients. We look forward to partnering with experts in complementary and integrative approaches from the Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative, and Integrative Medicine and the Osher Center for Integrative Health.

Both Dr. Mónico and Dr. Wong will practice at the New Center for Pain Medicine located at the Bayfront Building in Mission Bay. We are in the process of opening a clinical site at the Walnut Creek Outpatient Center and anticipate seeing our East Bay patients at that location in about a month.