Mehul J. Desai

Dr. Mehul Desai is the Medical Director of the International Spine Pain and Performance Center in Arlington VA. He is board-certified in Pain Medicine Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. Dr. Desai completed his residency in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the Georgetown University Hospital. During residency, he spent 6 months completing a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, conducting groundbreaking research into mechanisms of muscle pain. Upon completion of residency, he went on to a fellowship in Pain Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the Department of Anesthesiology. His clinical interests include neuromodulation–specifically, spinal cord stimulation and targeted drug delivery, dipsogenic pain, and intradiscal therapies, including biologics, complex spinal conditions, pelvic pain, outcomes-based research, and healthcare economics.