Dr. John V. Prunskis Has Received Top Doctor Award for An Unprecedented 10th Time
John V. Prunskis, M.D., FIPP, CEO/ Medical Director Illinois Pain Institute and The Regenerative Stem Cell Institute, Presidential Appointee Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force, and his team have received the Castle Connolly Top Doctor Award in the specialty of Pain Medicine 2019 as voted by his peers for the tenth time.
Dr. Prunskis is one of Illinois' most esteemed pain medicine specialist, Double Board Certified and achieving the highest distinction for an interventional pain physician as a Fellow in Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP), he is the co-founder and Medical Director of the Illinois Pain Institute and The Regenerative Stem Cell Institute. He is a Clinical Professor at Chicago Medical School and has been nationally and internationally recognized for his expertise in the field of Pain Medicine.
Prunskis and his team at the Illinois Pain Institute focus on the precise diagnosis and treatment of painful conditions, rather than simply masking the symptoms. Conditions treated at the Illinois Pain Institute Include: Back pain, headache pain, head and neck pain, Worker's Compensation Injuries, herniated disc pain, myofascial pain, CRPS/RSD, vertebral compression fracture, sciatica, Failed Back Surgery Syndrome, female and male pelvic pain, facial pain, peripheral nerve disorders, chest wall pain, abdominal wall pain, post-traumatic pain, post-surgical scar pain, shoulder and arm pain, chronic prostatitis, phantom limb pain, hip and joint pain, post-myelogram or spinal headache, sports injuries, interstitial cystitis, cancer pain and Ankylosing Spondylitis.
In 2018, Dr. Prunskis was presidentially appointed to the HHS Pain Management Best Practices Task Force, due to over thirty years of expertise, to improve how pain is diagnosed and treated at a national scale in the wake of the opioid epidemic.
The list of America's Top Doctors was compiled by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. and published in the October 2019 issue of Chicago Magazine. Castle Connolly's selection process is rigorous and involves surveying thousands of physicians, medical centers and hospitals across the nation. Many doctors would be pleased to win the award just once let alone an unprecedented ten times.
Illinois Pain Institute has eight convenient locations in Lake, Kane and McHenry counties. To learn more about Dr. John V. Prunskis and the Illinois Pain Institute visit www.illinoispain.com.