Krishnan Chakravarthy MD, PhD

Dr. Krishnan Chakravarthy, MD, PhD, is an interventional pain and spine physician. Dr. Chakravarthy is the Chairman and founder of the Empower You Chronic Pain Foundation, focusing on patient access, advocacy, and knowledge. Dr. Chakravarthy is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Nanoengineering at UCSD Health and VA San Diego Healthcare. Dr. Chakravarthy instructs medical students, residents, and fellows at the VA hospital. His research interests include incorporating new technology into advancing pain care. His research work has been featured in national and international venues and has been published in top journals, including Anesthesiology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, and Pain. He has to date lectured in over three hundred regional, national, and international venues, and has more than a hundred published works. Expertscape’s PubMed-based algorithms placed Dr. Chakravarthy in the top 0.1% of scholars writing about Pain Management over the past 10 years, defining him as a “World Expert.”