Jonathan D. Carlson, MD

Jonathan D. Carlson, MD, is a double board-certified anesthesiologist and interventional pain medicine physician who serves the American Society of Pain & Neuroscience (ASPN) in a dual leadership capacity: as an Ex Officio Advisor to the President and Chairman, and as Vice President of Membership and Member Engagement. He is the founding clinician of Hawai’i Pain & Spine in Kailua, Hawaii, and also practices in Arizona.

Dr. Carlson earned his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 2004, followed by an internship in internal medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine-Phoenix. He completed his anesthesiology residency at the University of California, Davis, where he served as chief resident, and went on to complete an ACGME-accredited fellowship in interventional pain management at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock in 2009, training under Dr. Gabor Racz. He is board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology in both Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.

His clinical practice emphasizes a multi-modal, comprehensive approach to chronic pain, combining image-guided injections, radiofrequency ablation, spinal cord and dorsal root ganglion stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation, vertebral augmentation, interspinous process spacers, percutaneous sacral fusion, lumbar endoscopic discectomy, and regenerative medicine techniques alongside physical therapy and non-opioid strategies. He has served as a clinical associate professor at Midwestern University College of Medicine and is a frequent faculty lecturer at national pain society meetings, including ASPN and ASRA. He has authored peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters in pain medicine and has served as principal investigator on clinical research studies in the field.