Alopi Patel, MD Email Alopi Patel
Anesthesiology
Mount Sinai Doctors
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- Position
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine
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- Specialties
- Anesthesiology
- Pain Management
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- Languages
- Spanish
- Gujarati
- Indian (Hindi)
- English
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- Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
- Mount Sinai Brooklyn
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Mount Sinai Queens
- Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West
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- Phone
- Mount Sinai Doctors - West 57th Street 212-523-6357 212-523-6357
- Physician Office 212-523-6357 212-523-6357
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Dr. Alopi Patel is a double board certified anesthesiologist and interventional pain physician. She attended New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and currently works at Mount Sinai West and Morningside. Dr. Patel is known to go the extra mile to ensure her patients feel well cared for.
As a pain management specialist, Dr. Patel is committed to the continuous care and education of her patients who are in need of rehabilitation. She focuses on each client individually by performing thorough examinations and diagnosis. Her comprehensive treatment plans include lifestyle modification counseling in sleep hygiene, nutrition, mindfulness based stress reduction techniques and exercise activities.
In addition to treating back pain, joint pain, headaches and more, Dr. Patel focuses on women's health conditions including in interventional techniques for management of chronic pelvic pain. Dr. Patel and her dedicated staff employ the most comprehensive approach to effectively manage pain through a customized treatment plan. Constantly up-to-date on the most progressive techniques and evidence based medicine approaches, she strives to get her patients feeling their best.
Dr. Patel launched a podcast called The Hurt by The Female Pain Docs which is meant to empower and educate patients regarding their health on topics within anesthesiology, pain medicine and lifestyle medicine. She is in the process of being board certified in lifestyle medicine and encourages the implementation of lifestyle modifications in the treatment of chronic pain conditions.
As a faculty member, Dr. Patel is actively engaged in clinical research projects and has given lectures in regional and national conferences on topics in perioperative and pain medicine.
She speaks English, Gujarati, and Hindi fluently and Spanish conversationally.
Certification
American Board of Anesthesiology
Clinical Focus
- Arthritis
- Back Pain
- Botulinum Toxin Injections
- Bursitis
- Chronic Neck Pain
- Coccydynia
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Cryotherapy
- Epidural Injection
- Headache
- Herniated Disk
- Joint Injection
- Joint Pain
- Low Back Pain
- Neck Pain
- Occipital Neuralgia
- Pain Reduction Exercise
- Post-Laminectomy Pain Syndrome
- Post-Thoracotomy Pain Syndrome
- Pulsed Radiofrequency Ablation Procedures For Control Of Pain
- Radiofrequency Ablation
- Radiofrequency Ablation Procedures For Control Of Pain
- Rib Fracture
- Sacroiliac Joint Pain
- Sciatica
- Spinal And Epidural Anesthesia
- Spinal Corticosteroid Injection
- Spinal Stenosis
Research Topics
Anesthesia, Pain
Education
MD, Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School
Fellowship, Pain Management
Icahn School Of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Languages
Spanish, Gujarati, Indian (Hindi), English
She is actively engaged in clinical research projects pertaining to perioperative pain, lifestyle modifications as well as the evolving use of social media in medicine.
Patel A, Pai B H P, Diskina D, Reardon B, Lai YH. Comparison of clinical outcomes of acetaminophen IV vs PO in the peri-operative setting for laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair surgeries: A triple-blinded, randomized controlled trial. Journal of clinical anesthesia 2020 May; 61.
Shih L, Patel A, Diwan S. Neck Pain. In: Academic Pain Medicine. Springer;.
Patel A, Rosenblatt M. Jehovah’s Witness Patient. In: Essence of Anesthesia. Elsevier;.
Patel A, Littwin S. Fluid Management. In: Insall and Scott: Surgery of the Knee. Elsevier;.
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their relationships with such companies.
Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Patel during 2020 and/or 2021. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Other activities: Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership
- PKKP Holdings LLC
Royalty Payments:
- Cambridge University Press
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