Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
Better Care for Children in Pain

The Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine (SPPM) aims to advance the quality of anesthesia care and the alleviation of pain-related conditions in children.

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Pediatric Acute Pain/Regional Anesthesia Fellowship Programs

 

Boston Children’s Hospital 
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Patient Demographics: 0-35 years (adult blocks in special surgical populations – sports, complex hip preservations, and congenital heart surgery)
Duration of training: 6-12 months
Number of positions: 1-2 per year
Applicant eligibility requirements: completion of pediatric anesthesiology fellowship strongly encouraged, rolling admissions, flexible start dates
ACGME: not accredited
Junior faculty status: variable
Program Director: Susie Eklund, [email protected]
Program Administrator: Katelin Benton, [email protected]
Program Features: tertiary, free-standing pediatric medical center with outpatient surgicenter; active regional anesthesia service providing >2,500 regional anesthetics per year; approximately 50% catheters, including home catheter program; collaboration with Boston-area adult hospitals; primary pediatric teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.

Children’s Hospital of Colorado
Location: Aurora, Colorado
Patient Demographics: pediatric
Duration of training: 12 months
Number of positions: 1
Applicant eligibility requirements: must be enrolled in or have completed an ACGME-accredited pediatric anesthesia fellowship (or equivalent) and be ABA certified/eligible.  All applicants must also obtain a Colorado medical license and DEA license by fellowship start.  (IMGs, please note that the CO Medical Board requires 3 years of postgraduate medical training in the US or Canada for licensure).
ACGME: not ACGME accredited
Junior faculty status: yes, equivalent to a 0.5 FTE appointment
Program Director: Leah Webb, [email protected]
Program Administrator:  Lindsay Baumgartner, [email protected]
Program Features:  Children’s Hospital Colorado is a free-standing tertiary children’s hospital affiliated with the University of Colorado.  Our busy regional service provides approximately 2000 central and peripheral nerve blocks annually, including a home catheter program.  We offer 12 months of advanced training in pediatric regional anesthesia and acute pain that is structured as a hybrid faculty-fellow appointment equivalent to 0.5 FTE.  Time will be divided between approximately 16 weeks of acute pain/regional, 4 weeks of chronic pain, 8 weeks of research/quality improvement/academic time, 20 weeks as a clinical instructor, and 4 weeks of vacation. The fellowship will provide learning opportunities through clinical experience, didactic instruction, and participation in research and/or quality improvement.  Our goal is to create specialists uniquely qualified to plan and perform single-shot and continuous regional anesthetic techniques, and manage the peri-operative analgesic needs of both acute and chronic pediatric pain patients.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Patient Demographics: pediatric
Duration of training: 12 months
Number of positions: 1
Applicant eligibility requirements: must be American Board of Anesthesiology certified or eligible to practice pediatric anesthesiology in the USA
ACGME: not accredited
Junior faculty status: yes, in Pediatric Anesthesiology; fellow will practise in the OR as a junior attending
Program Director: Wick Kraemer
Program Administrator: Sharese Garvin  [email protected]
Program Features: Program has a focus on pediatric regional anesthesia and acute pain. Our Acute Pain Service sees all inpatient consults for acute, chronic and even cancer pain. We have electives available in many fields including palliative care, Pediatric Neurology- headache program, Rheumatology- Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome program and in the Chronic Pain Clinic which includes the Epidermolysis Bullosa Multidisciplinary program.

Stanford Children’s Health
Location: Palo Alto, California
Patient Demographics: pediatric
Duration of training: 12 months
Number of positions: 1
Applicant eligibility requirements: must be American Board of Anesthesiology certified or eligible to practice pediatric anesthesiology in the USA
ACGME: not accredited
Junior faculty status: yes, 50% of time as Clinical Instructor in Anesthesiology
Program Director: Ellen Wang, [email protected]
Program Administrator: Esperanza Magallanes, [email protected]
Program Features: 12 month advanced clinical experience which includes 50% as an Instructor in Anesthesiology, performing pediatric anesthesia as faculty and 50% performing pediatric regional anesthesiology.  More information and application can be found here:
Advanced Clinical Experience – SUPRA

Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Patient Demographics:
Duration of training: 12 months
Number of positions: 1
Applicant eligibility requirements:
ACGME: not accredited
Junior faculty status: optional 50% junior attending position
Program Director: Candice Burrier, [email protected]
Program Administrator:  Bree Bower, [email protected]
Program Features:  Opportunity to gain regional anesthesia and acute pain service expertise, with optional junior attending role to augment salary.  Quarterly block volume performed by regional team estimated at approximately 529 blocks, including 260 lower extremity (39 catheters), 199 neuraxial (16 caudal, 14 lumbar, and 29 thoracic catheters; 53 spinals), and 22 upper extremity blocks.  Fellows are expected to participate in QI and clinical research.  We have tremendous resources to support these effort with a Director of Research, a team of statisticians, and clinical research nurses.  Our fellows have presented work consistently at SPA and ASA.

Seattle Children’s Hospital
Location: Seattle, Washington
Patient Demographics: pediatric ( newborn-21 years)
Duration of training: 1 year
Number of positions: 1-2 per year
Applicant eligibility requirements: pediatric anesthesia fellowship or equivalent
ACGME: non ACGME
Junior faculty status: Acting Instructor
Program Director: Rani A Sunder, MD, [email protected]
Program Administrator:  Shana Emery
Program Features:  A comprehensive exposure to pediatric regional anesthesia, both neuraxial and peripheral nerve blocks. We have a robust home catheter program and a busy regional focused surgery center. Our group of dynamic regionalists are committed teachers and our center offers opportunities for clinical research, quality improvement projects and collaborative research.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Upcoming Meeting Information

SPPM 13th Annual Meeting
March 12, 2026
Sheraton Denver Downtown
Denver, CO

 

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