Christopher G. Gharibo MD

Christopher Gharibo, MD is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, as well as Orthopedics, at the NYU School of Medicine. He also serves as the Medical Director of Pain Medicine at NYU Langone Hospitals Center.

Dr. Gharibo obtained his medical doctorate from Rutgers Medical School in 1992 and completed his anesthesiology residency at NYU Medical Center. He served his pain medicine fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology and holds subspecialty certification in pain medicine.

He has acute pain experience with system-wide use of interventional techniques in combination with non-opioids and opioids as part of multimodal acute pain management pathways. His areas of clinical expertise include low back and neck pain of musculoskeletal and spinal origin, cancer pain, and neuropathic pain syndromes, such as painful peripheral neuropathies and reflex sympathetic dystrophy.