I grew up in Northeast Ohio. After receiving my undergraduate degree in Political Science and International Relations from a small Jesuit college in Fairfield, Connecticut called Fairfield University, I started work on my Juris Doctorate degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. While studying law, I started enrolling in undergraduate premedical school science and math courses at CWRU. After graduating from law school, I started medical school at what is now known as the University of Toledo School of Medicine.

After graduating from medical school in 2001, I completed my Internal Medicine internship and my Anesthesiology residency at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. During my residency I found my calling. After several one-month rotations on the Pain Medicine Service, I realized that my passion was treating patients with a variety of chronic pain. It was then that I embarked upon my career in the relatively new field of Pain Medicine. I completed my fellowship in Pain Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. I was recruited to return to University Hospitals of Cleveland to help rejuvenate the Division of Pain Medicine. I teach residents and fellows as well as work in a busy outpatient and inpatient practice.

My interest is in advanced minimally invasive therapies to treat pain. Finding the definitive treatment for each patient is my goal. Besides basic injections, I have many other therapies to offer. I have extensive experience in treating patients with neuromodulation therapies including peripheral nerve, dorsal column, and dorsal root ganglion approaches. I am well versed in ablative procedures such as Intracept and Osteocool. Minimally invasive lumbar decompression and Vertiflex may be appropriate for patients with stenosis who are not surgical candidates. I have several other therapies that I can offer patients depending upon their condition.

My goal is to reduce pain and restore function in his many people as possible. There is nothing more satisfying for me than to know the people are free to live their lives the way they want to live.

~Dr. Patrick McIntyre MD, JD