About Dr. Griffin

Dr. Robert Griffin specializes in evaluating and treating low back pain, sciatica, disc herniation, neck pain, cervical radicular pain, as well as other musculoskeletal, sports injury, and spine-related conditions with non-surgical management approaches.   He sees patients at Hudson Yards as well as at the HSS-75th Street campus.

Dr. Griffin earned his MD and PhD from Harvard Medical School. He received the prestigious Medical Scientist Training Program award from the National Institutes of Health and Harvard Medical School. He conducted his doctoral research in neuroscience at Harvard on the genetic mechanisms of pain sensitization. Dr. Griffin has published the results of his research on pain in leading scientific and biomedical journals, including Nature Medicine, Cell, the Journal of Neuroscience, and Brain.

Dr. Griffin completed his postgraduate medical training at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, including an internship in internal medicine, residency in anesthesiology, and fellowship in pain medicine. He is board certified in anesthesiology and in pain medicine.

Appointments

Assistant Attending Anesthesiologist, Hospital for Special Surgery

Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College

Education and Training

Pain Medicine Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard Medical School

Anesthesiology Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard Medical School

Internal Medicine Internship, Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard Medical School

MD, Harvard Medical School

PhD (Neuroscience), Harvard University

BA, Swarthmore College

Awards

Superdoctors New York Rising Stars 2013, 2014, 2016
Hospital for Special Surgery Teacher of the Year, Weill Cornell/Memorial Sloan Kettering/HSS Tri-Institutional Pain Medicine Fellowship, 2014-2015, 2015-2016
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Xi
Medical Scientist Training Program grant by Harvard Medical School/ NIH
Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research Resident Scholar