Education

Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Residency and Fellowship: New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, Hospital of Special Surgery, and Memorial Sloan Kettering (Anesthesiology and Interventional Pain Medicine)

Professional Activity

Dr. Gritsenko is board certified in Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine. She is a member of several professional societies including the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, American Society of Pain and Neuroscience, and the American Society of Regional Anesthesia. Dr. Gritsenko was a national ASIPP Legislative Awareness, Healthy Policy, and Advocacy Fellow, where she worked in Congress on pain medicine affairs following her pain medicine fellowship year. Internationally, she has explored different approaches to healthcare at Oxford University, England; Valladolid, Spain; and as part of a World Health Organization (WHO) partnership in Russia. Dr. Gritsenko has won numerous awards including the ASIPP Rising Star Award, Outstanding Pain Physician of the Year, and has been listed several times in the New York Times Magazine list of Super Doctors.

Clinical Activity

Dr. Gritsenko strongly believes in treating her patients like she would want her family treated. She is an interventional pain physician with an outpatient chronic pain practice and also as anesthesiologist with an interest in regional anesthesia techniques and the acute pain service. She is particularly passionate about the development of systems of care, cancer pain, acute pain, chronic pain, neuropathic pain, sympathetic mediated pain, spinal cord stimulation, spinal pain, compassion, substance abuse, and professionalism. She is board certified in anesthesiology, pain medicine, and hospice and palliative care medicine.

Teaching

Dr. Gritsenko is Professor of Anesthesiology, Family & Social Medicine, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; She is Program Director for the ACGME-accredited Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship and Educational Director for the Acute Pain and Regional Anesthesiology residency rotations. She has a passion for teaching and spends a significant portion of her clinical time training residents and fellows.

Regionally and nationally, Dr. Gritsenko speaks and teaches at meetings and is involved in the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), New York Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (NYSIPP), American Society of Anesthesiologists (AMA), Post-graduate Assembly of Anesthesia (PGA), American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN) , and the American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA) , and various other academic organizations. Internationally, Dr. Gritsenko has been a part of the World Institute of Pain (WIP) and the International Neuromodulation Society (INS) and enjoys working with colleagues around the world towards the innovation of pain medicine.

Research

Dr. Gritsenko has authored multiple textbooks and articles on topics related to chronic pain topics, regional anesthesiology, and acute pain medicine.