Bretley Todd Sitzman MD, MPH

Dr. Sitzman is the Medical Director of Advanced Pain Therapy, and also serves as a medical consultant for the pain management program at Forrest General Hospital. Dr. Sitzman is the Medical Director of Advanced Pain Therapy, and also serves as a medical consultant for the pain management program at Forrest General Hospital. Dr. Sitzman is an active member of numerous national and international pain societies and is the current president of the North American Neuromodulation Society and past president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, Southern Pain Society, and Mississippi Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. He has authored more than 80 scientific abstracts, manuscripts, and book chapters, and serves on the editorial board of the journal Pain Medicine. He is actively involved in patient advocacy and postgraduate medical education and lectures nationally and internationally on topics related to pain pharmacology and interventional pain therapies. He has been interviewed and quoted in Parade Magazine, ABC News, New York Times, USA Today, WebMD, Pain Medicine News, and American Medical News.

Dr. Sitzman is a native of New Orleans, LA, and received his medical and master of public health degrees from Tulane University. Following an internship in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, he received anesthesiology and pain management specialty training at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville, VA. Prior to moving to Hattiesburg, he was a consultant in anesthesiology and pain medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. Dr. Sitzman is board certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine.