Biography Dr. Ben Arevalo is a triple-board certified physician who specializes in interventional pain medicine and palliative medicine. While he treats a variety of painful conditions ranging from benign to malignant, he has a particular interest in using advanced interventional techniques for managing cancer-related pain. In his role as a palliative medicine specialist, he also helps patients maximize their quality of life by managing symptoms related to cancer including pain, fatigue, nausea, low appetite, insomnia, anxiety, and depression. He also supports patients and their families with medical decision making and advance care planning. Role Faculty Location UCSF at Mission Bay Category Clinical Specialties Pain Medicine Education 07/2024 - Interventional Pain Medicine Fellowship, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital06/2022 - Hospice and Palliative Care Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco06/2021 - Emergency Medicine Residency, University of ChicagoMD, MBA, 05/2018 - MD, MBA, Harvard Medical School/Harvard Business SchoolBA, 06/2011 - Human Biology (Honors), Stanford University Publications Emergency physicians in pain medicine: Workforce trends, competency overlap, gaps, and opportunities for integration. Merz-Herrala JR, Ocampo F, Abrecht CR, Ben Arevalo J, Chai NC Interventional Pain Medicine . Dec 17, 2025 Lung Base Findings of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) on Abdominal CT in Patients With Predominant Gastrointestinal Symptoms. Siegel A, Chang PJ, Jarou ZJ, Paushter DM, Harmath CB, Arevalo JB, Dachman A AJR. American journal of roentgenology . Apr 17, 2020 Integrating Suicide Risk Assessment and Management Tools into Medical Student Education: A Novel Clerkship in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Carmel A, Arevalo JB Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry . May 2, 2016 Reducing dosing errors and increasing clinical efficiency in Guatemala: first report of a novel mHealth medication dosing app in a developing country Segal JB, Arevalo JB, Franke MF, Palazuelos D BMJ Innovations . Jun 8, 2015 Argyrophilic grain disease differs from other tauopathies by lacking tau acetylation. Grinberg LT, Wang X, Wang C, Sohn PD, Theofilas P, Sidhu M, Arevalo JB, Heinsen H, Huang EJ, Rosen H, Miller BL, Gan L, Seeley WW Acta neuropathologica . Jan 31, 2013
