American Board of Anesthesiology — Anesthesiology, and the subspecialty of Pain Medicine.
Founder · Physician profile
Purvi Patel, MD
Founder of Gulf Coast Pain & Spine. Board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology in both Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, with residency and interventional pain fellowship at UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
About Purvi PatelBoard certification Training Practice Languages
Founder-led care built on a decade of Houston-area practice.
Interventional Pain Medicine fellowship (2012–2013) and Anesthesiology residency (2009–2012) at UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ. MD from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (BA/MD program with Rutgers University); BA with honors from Rutgers.
Founded the practice in July 2015 after two years with Houston Pain Associates; leads its clinical standards and physician recruitment.
English, Gujarati and Hindi (fluent); Spanish (proficient).
Recognition and memberships
Honors that reflect both skill and bedside manner.
Dr. Patel’s awards during training recognized clinical excellence and humanism in equal measure — the standard she set for the practice.
Robert Dripps Memorial Award for Most Outstanding Graduating Resident (RWJMS Anesthesia, 2012); Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Resident Award (2009); Gold Humanism Honor Society (2008); Phi Beta Kappa (Rutgers, 2005).
American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, North American Neuromodulation Society, Spine Intervention Society, Texas Pain Society, Texas Medical Association, Harris County Medical Society.
Image-guided spine injections, medial branch blocks and radiofrequency ablation, sacroiliac joint care, spinal cord stimulation, and coordinated multimodal plans for chronic pain.
Presentations at the American Society of Anesthesiologists and American Society of Regional Anesthesia meetings on regional anesthesia, patient safety and multimodal pain management.
Next step
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Call (832) 916-2075 or request online; ask for the physician by name and the team will match you to the next available office.