Vladimir N. Kramskiy, MD

Dr. Vladimir Kramskiy is a Director of the Ambulatory Recuperative Pain Medicine Program and specializes in interventional and medical pain management. He uses a comprehensive approach to treat acute and chronic spine and musculoskeletal pain, neuropathic pain, headaches and complex regional pain syndromes.

Dr. Kramskiy specializes in minimally invasive fluoroscopically guided diagnostic and therapeutic procedures of the spine, such as epidural steroid injections, facet joint injections and discography, as well as advanced interventional methods such as radiofrequency neuroablation, implanted intrathecal drug delivery systems and spinal cord stimulators. He is also proficient in electrophysiological diagnostic studies and botox injections for pain.

His clinical goal is to restore optimal physical function by developing an individualized treatment plan for his patients.

Dr. Kramskiy earned his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his neurology training at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and a Pain and Palliative Care fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He then continued his training through the Tri-Institutional Pain Medicine fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Hospital for Special Surgery, where he served as a chief fellow.

Appointments

Director of Ambulatory Recuperative Pain Medicine Program
Assistant Attending Neurologist – Hospital for Special Surgery
Clinical Instructor of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College

Specialty

Neurology
Musculoskeletal and Interventional Pain Management

Subspecialty

Pain Medicine

Special Expertise

Neuropathic Pain
Acute and Chronic Spine and Musculoskeletal Pain
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Spinal Injection Procedures
Migraine
Tension and Cluster Headache
Cervicogenic Headaches
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Phantom Limb Pain
Central Post Stroke Pain
Cancer Pain

Affiliations

American Pain Society
American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
American Academy of Neurology

Procedures

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Spinal Injections
Advanced Interventional Neurolysis and Radiofrequency Neuroablation
Diagnostic Discography and Minimally Invasive Intradiscal Techniques
Implantation of Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems
Implantation of Spinal Cord Stimulators
Botox Injections for the Treatment of Migraine

Languages

Russian by physician, Spanish by office staff

Education

Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

Internship

Internal Medicine - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Englewood Medical Center, NJ

Residency

Neurology - North-Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, New Hyde Park, NY

Fellowship

Pain and Palliative Care - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Pain Medicine - Tri-Institutional Pain Medicine fellowship, Chief Fellow, Weill Cornell Medical Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Hospital for Special Surgery

Certification

Board Certified in Neurology

State Licensure

New York  

Selected Publications

Patel N, Kramskiy V, Camins M. Large Intradiploic Epidermoid Tumor of the Skull: Case Report and Review of Literature. AJNS. 2006;25(1):92-104.

Kramskiy V. Case Report: HSV Infection in a Patient with GBM Analyzed by Polymerase Chain Reaction. North Shore-Long Island Jewish Academic Research Competition. 2007.

Kramskiy V. Ectopic Intratympanic Carotid Artery as a Cause of Unilateral Pulsatile Tinnitus: Case Report and Review of Literature. North Shore-Long Island Jewish Academic Research Competition. 2006.

Selected Presentations

Faskowitz A, Kramskiy V, Pasternak G. Methadone-Induced Hypoglycemia Mouse Model. American Neurologic Association Annual Meeting. 2009.