Michael Verdolin, MD, a board-certified pain management specialist in eastern Chula Vista, earned his subspecialty certification in interventional pain management in 2004 after completing a fellowship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. His fluoroscopy-guided epidural steroid injections, radiofrequency nerve ablation, and spinal cord stimulator implantation treat chronic pain conditions that overlap with the interventional scope at Synovation Medical Group on the Medical Center Drive corridor. He graduated from the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1996 and completed an internal medicine internship and anesthesiology residency at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, before serving 15 years in the U.S. Navy with deployments to the Baltics and Arabian Gulf. His military service earned the Navy Achievement Medal, Army Commendation Medal, and Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, and included a faculty appointment as assistant professor of anesthesiology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Pain Consultants of San Diego's multimodal approach integrates interventional procedures with acupuncture-based neurostimulation protocols available at Otay Lakes Acupuncture for patients whose chronic pain syndromes respond to combined needle-point and pharmacologic therapy. Highest-complexity interventions include percutaneous spinal cord stimulator trial implantation with paddle-lead placement and intrathecal drug-delivery pump installation for refractory cancer and neuropathic pain.