Naum Shaparin, MD

Naum Shaparin, MD, MBA, is Professor and Vice Chair of Business Affairs, Anesthesiology as well as the Director, Multidisciplinary Pain Program at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Shaparin's clinical focus is in outpatient interventional pain medicine. He also has interest in general anesthesia, regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine.

In 1999, Dr. Shaparin received his Bachelor of Arts in biology from Boston University. He went on to attend Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, earning his Doctor of Medicine in 2003. After completing his internship at Morristown Memorial Hospital and Overlook Hospital in 2004, he completed a three-year anesthesiology residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in 2007. He continued his postgraduate training at Cleveland Clinic, completing a yearlong pain medicine fellowship in 2008. In 2016, he completed his Master of Business Administration at New York University, Stern School of Business.

Dr. Shaparin's research interests include non-opioid therapies for chronic non-malignant pain, interventional pain procedures, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare delivery and social determinants of health with a focus on patient failure to attend pain clinic appointments. He has shared his work through peer-reviewed journals and national and international presentations.

Dr. Shaparin is board certified and is a member of several professional societies including the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.