RichardZhuMD

Pain Medicine

Pain Management and Anesthesiology in Hartford, CT

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Office
129 Woodland St Ste 100
Hartford, CT 06105
Phone+1 860-714-5861

Fax+1 860-714-8111

Dr. Zhu specializes in interventional pain management and cancer pain management at St. Francis Hospital. He completed Anesthesiology residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and additional fellowship training in Pain Medicine at NYP-Weill Cornell. During his medical training, he decided to dedicate his career to the long-term care of patients battling chronic pain after seeing how pain that persists long after injury has healed can wreak emotional and physical turmoil on peoples’ lives. He treats spine pain, neck pain, headaches, neuropathic pain, and cancer pain. He has a special interest in the most up-to-date advanced therapies for refractory pain, including spinal cord stimulation, intrathecal drug delivery, and regenerative medicine. He emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach that includes diagnostic and interventional procedures, medications, and therapy programs to help improve patients’ pain, functionality and quality of life.

He worked at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, CT from 2018-2022. He directed the Pain Management Service the last 2 years he was there and was named to "Fairfield County's Top Doctors" by Greenwich Magazine in 2022. He relocated his practice to Hartford in 2022, joining Woodland Anesthesiology.

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Richard Zhu, MD | Ivy League-Trained Pain Management in Hartford, CT

New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)Fellowship, Pain Medicine, 2017 - 2018
Yale-New Haven Medical CenterResidency, Anesthesiology, 2013 - 2017
University of Maryland School of MedicineClass of 2013
Duke UniversityBS, 2005 - 2009

PubMed

1 citations
Perioperative Hypertensive Urgency After Methylene Blue in a Patient With Undiagnosed Pheochromocytoma: A Case Report.
Shikha Shukla, Richard Zhu, Philip E. Rubin, Ranjit Deshpande
A&A Practice. 2019-05-01
6 citations
Concept of the Ambulatory Pain Physician.
Donna A. Thomas, Richard Zhu, Hassan Rayaz, Nalini Vadivelu
Current Pain and Headache Reports. 2017-01-01
14 citations
TRPV channel-mediated calcium transients in nociceptor neurons are dispensable for avoidance behaviour
Amanda S. Lindy, Puja K. Parekh, Richard Zhu, Patrick Kanju, Sree V. Chintapalli
Nature Communications. 2014-09-02

Abstracts/Posters

Percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation for management of malignant neuropathic pain
Jonathan Silverman, Richard Zhu, Oktay Shuminov, Amitabh Gulati, ASRA, New York, NY, 4/20/2018
Spinal Cord Stimulation to Treat Neuropathic Pain From Tumor Invasion Into the Sacral Foramina
Richard Zhu, Ilya Laufer, Vinay Puttanniah, ASRA, New York, NY, 4/20/2018