Edward Podgorski, MD

Edward Podgorski III, MD, chairs the CARES Committee of the American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN), a group focused on advancing cancer pain management and access to care for underserved patients with life-limiting disease. He is a founding member of the committee, which he helped establish alongside fellow ASPN leaders to cultivate the next generation of cancer pain specialists and expand education, research, and clinical guidelines in the field.

Dr. Podgorski is double board certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine. He earned his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College) in Philadelphia, completed an internal medicine internship at Tufts University in Boston, trained in anesthesiology residency at the University of Miami/Jackson Health System, and completed a pain medicine fellowship at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

He is the founder of Hawthorne Oncology Pain Experts (HOPE), a Tampa, Florida-based practice dedicated to treating cancer-related pain, complex chronic pain, and spasticity, inspired by his volunteer work at a Philadelphia hospice run by the Dominican Nuns of Hawthorne. His clinical and research focus centers on interventional pain medicine, oncology pain management, and intrathecal (targeted) drug delivery systems. Dr. Podgorski serves as Cancer Pain and Palliative Care Section Reviewer for the journal Pain Medicine and holds a leadership role with the Foundation for Implantable Drug Delivery Systems (FIDDS), in addition to serving as Education Liaison for the North American Neuromodulation Society’s Residents and Fellows Section. He has authored peer-reviewed articles on catheter-based techniques for cancer pain and neuromodulation approaches for neuropathic pain, and he received the Anesthesiology Research Award from the University of Miami in 2020.