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Roma Tickoo
I am an internist and a geriatrician with expertise in the management of acute and chronic cancer pain as well as management of symptoms resulting from disease or their treatmnent. This includes care of hospitalized patients on the pain and palliative care unit as well as other medical and surgical units; outpatient visits, and continued support after discharge.
I also supervise a dedicated outpatient clinic for patients who are 65 years of age and older. Here we provide a blend of pain and symptom management, identify needs specific to this age group, and make appropriate referrals.
I work with an interdisciplinary team from specialties such as interventional/anesthesia pain management, rehabilitation medicine, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, integrative medicine, chaplaincy, social work, pharmacy, wound care team, radiation onology, neurology, neurosurgery, and the primary care teams to prevent pain crisis and existential suffering. Together, we work to promote the function and quality of life of patients as well as their families.
I believe in shared decision making and identifying goals of treatment and care early in my interaction with the patients, their families, and the primary care providers. I look forward to developing strategies that foster relationships with the primary care physicians in the community so that there is improvement in access to health care as close to the patients' homes as possible.
In my research I am studying hospice and palliative care practices at various facilities and am the prinicpal investigator on a study of end-of-life care at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. I am interested in identifying and addressing barriers to patients' access to pain management, especially with opioids, and am exploring new pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches to pain management.
Phone
646-888-2694
Education
MD, Government Medical College (Jammu [Tawi], India); MPH, Columbia University
Residencies
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center and Flushing Hospital Medical Center
Fellowships
NYU Medical Center; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Board Certifications
Internal Medicine; Geriatric Medicine
Clinical Expertise
Pain Management and Palliative Care (including symptom management and supportive care); Geriatric Pain and Symptom Management Medicine
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