Bayfront Medical Building Opens: State-of-the-Art Facility Expands Pain Medicine Services and Will Enhance Patient Care 

We are thrilled to announce that our Pain Medicine faculty practice has relocated and expanded in the new, state-of-the-art Bayfront Medical Building. The Bayfront Medical Building opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony and celebration on August 23rd, and the first day of patient care was on August 27th. This beautiful new environment will significantly enhance service offerings and patient care capabilities. 

Leadership in the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, including chair Dr. Michael Gropper and vice chair of Pain Medicine Dr. Mark Schumacher have advocated for a new space for our department’s faculty practice for some time. Dr. Christopher Abrecht, chief of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care and Medical Director of the newly renamed UCSF Center for Pain Medicine, and his team collaborated over the past three years with a talented design group to meticulously craft this space from a 9,000 square foot shell to its current state.  

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Advanced Physical Space 

The new facility boasts three procedure rooms set up for fluoroscopic procedures and multiple additional procedural rooms set up for ultrasound-guided procedures and other interventions. The clinic also has dedicated pre-procedure and post-procedural space, to facilitate procedural throughput. This infrastructure will improve procedural capability, allowing the group to address and reduce procedural backlog. According to Abrecht, “We anticipate surpassing the 3,500 procedures we already perform annually.” Additionally, the Center for Pain Medicine will have three infusion bays, enabling expansion of infusion therapy, demand for which currently far outstrips capacity. Currently, the group provides ketamine and lidocaine infusions and plans to expand this to include other medications.  

Growing Team of Experts

To support these expanding services, the Center for Pain Medicine has welcomed multiple new non-physician staff members, including additional medical assistants, practice coordinators, a patient navigator, a practice supervisor, clinical nurses, a radiologic technologist, and a nurse practitioner. This substantial addition is the most significant staffing increase in several years and will no doubt improve the quality of care administered at the Center.   

New physician faculty members have also joined the team and expanded their clinical footprint, further enhancing clinical expertise and patient care.  

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Innovative Programs and Services

The new facility houses several noteworthy programs: