Dominguez joins Division of Pain Medicine
as assistant professor

Carmen L. Dominguez has joined the Division of Pain Medicine as an assistant professor of anesthesiology.

Dominguez has both clinical and research interests in pain medicine, pediatric pain and acupuncture. She earned a bachelor's degree in biology and an M.D. from Columbia University in 1988 and 1992, respectively. Dominguez completed a pain management fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1997 and is a certified medical acupuncturist.

In 1998, Domniguez was certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology and has a subspeciality certification in pain management, earned in 2000. She served as assistant director of the Pain Management Center at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York from 1998-2001 before coming to UC Davis.

Currently, Dominguez divides her time between seeing patients at the pain clinic and assisting in the operating room. She is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, International Anesthesia Research Society, American Medical Women's Association, International Association for the Study of Pain, and International Spinal Injection Society.