Dr. Issa serves as Medical Director of the Pain Management Center at Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital. Dr. Issa splits his time at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital between Brigham and Women’s Comprehensive Spine Center and the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine. He studied medicine at the University of Alexandria and psychiatry at West Virginia University School of Medicine where he spent a year as Chief Resident in the Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Issa has also completed fellowships in Addiction Psychiatry (Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine), Pain (Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School), and Forensic Psychiatry (Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry, West Virginia University School of Medicine). Dr. Issa is board certified in Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine, and Pain Medicine.