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ing Your Pain Scott J. Loev, DO, was the recipient of
the National Purdue Partners Against
St. Luke’s Spine & Pain Associates excels by offering an integrative Pain Award and Pfizer Scholar in Pain
approach with leading-edge pain management and surgical Management, which honors a fellow for
techniques as well as hospital-quality care in its procedure suites. outstanding contributions to research and
Fellowship-trained physicians and specialty-trained nurse patient care in pain management.
practitioners offer a wide variety of diagnostic and therapeutic
procedures along with specialized care to reduce patients’ pain and He earned his medical degree at the
improve their quality of life. Philadelphia College of Osteopathic
Medicine and served an internship in
“Each of our five offices is connected to a hospital-based pain internal medicine at the University of
procedure suite that provides a very comfortable environment and Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
experience for our patients and in a friendlier and unintimidating He also served an anesthesia residency
environment. It also allows us to provide patients with re-assurance at Temple University School of Medicine
and continuity of care as they interact with the same staff during and a fellowship in interventional pain
their visit as they do during their procedure,” Dr. Loev, the Medical medicine at the University of Pittsburgh
Director of the outpatient pain medicine program, explains. School of Medicine.
“We are great believers in doing right by our patients,” Dr. Loev For more information, contact St. Luke’s
explains. “Some clearly need interventional treatment, but for Spine & Pain Associates at 484-526-PAIN
others, the cause of pain is not that obvious. For those patients, or visit www.sluhn.org/pain.
our services are often diagnostic. We may refer our patients to
other specialists and often recommend multi-modality therapies.
For example, one patient’s treatment may include a medication
management program coupled with physical therapy.”
Depending on a patient’s history, consultation and evaluation, Dr.
Loev and his associates may refer a patient to other specialties such
as neurosurgery, physical therapy, orthopaedics, behavioral health
and nutritionists, as well as other counselors.
“Being part of the St. Luke’s University Health Network offers many
resources and advantages that other practices do not have, and we
are very grateful to be able to draw on those resources,” says Dr.
Loev. Locations include: Allentown, Bethlehem, East Stroudsburg,
Easton, Quakertown.
St. Luke’s Spine & Pain Associates: Harshini Dani, DO; Farooq Qureshi, MD; www.sluhn.org • 1-866-STLUKES
Jason Erickson, DO; Stanley Ikezi, MD and Scott Loev, DO
the National Purdue Partners Against
St. Luke’s Spine & Pain Associates excels by offering an integrative Pain Award and Pfizer Scholar in Pain
approach with leading-edge pain management and surgical Management, which honors a fellow for
techniques as well as hospital-quality care in its procedure suites. outstanding contributions to research and
Fellowship-trained physicians and specialty-trained nurse patient care in pain management.
practitioners offer a wide variety of diagnostic and therapeutic
procedures along with specialized care to reduce patients’ pain and He earned his medical degree at the
improve their quality of life. Philadelphia College of Osteopathic
Medicine and served an internship in
“Each of our five offices is connected to a hospital-based pain internal medicine at the University of
procedure suite that provides a very comfortable environment and Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
experience for our patients and in a friendlier and unintimidating He also served an anesthesia residency
environment. It also allows us to provide patients with re-assurance at Temple University School of Medicine
and continuity of care as they interact with the same staff during and a fellowship in interventional pain
their visit as they do during their procedure,” Dr. Loev, the Medical medicine at the University of Pittsburgh
Director of the outpatient pain medicine program, explains. School of Medicine.
“We are great believers in doing right by our patients,” Dr. Loev For more information, contact St. Luke’s
explains. “Some clearly need interventional treatment, but for Spine & Pain Associates at 484-526-PAIN
others, the cause of pain is not that obvious. For those patients, or visit www.sluhn.org/pain.
our services are often diagnostic. We may refer our patients to
other specialists and often recommend multi-modality therapies.
For example, one patient’s treatment may include a medication
management program coupled with physical therapy.”
Depending on a patient’s history, consultation and evaluation, Dr.
Loev and his associates may refer a patient to other specialties such
as neurosurgery, physical therapy, orthopaedics, behavioral health
and nutritionists, as well as other counselors.
“Being part of the St. Luke’s University Health Network offers many
resources and advantages that other practices do not have, and we
are very grateful to be able to draw on those resources,” says Dr.
Loev. Locations include: Allentown, Bethlehem, East Stroudsburg,
Easton, Quakertown.
St. Luke’s Spine & Pain Associates: Harshini Dani, DO; Farooq Qureshi, MD; www.sluhn.org • 1-866-STLUKES
Jason Erickson, DO; Stanley Ikezi, MD and Scott Loev, DO
