BIOGRAPHY

Michael H. Moskowitz, MD graduated from Louisiana State University Medical Center in 1977, completed his Psychiatric Residency and Psychosomatic Fellowship training at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco in 1982 and entered Private Psychiatric and Psychosomatic practice the same year. Dr. Moskowitz ran the Adult Locked Psychiatric teaching unit at St. Mary's from 1982 to 1987, when he joined the Consortium of Spinal Care Physicians at St. Mary's. He was one of the founding members of SpineCare Medical Group and sat on its Board of Directors for four years from 1988 to 1992. The practice he helped found in 1982, Psychiatric Associates of San Francisco, recently changed its name to Bay Area Pain Medical Associates, reflecting the predominant practice of Pain Medicine in this group. Dr. Moskowitz is Board Certified in Psychiatry and in Pain Medicine. His philosophy is to develop a clinical practice in Pain Medicine using the Biopsychosocial approach, and to establish the practice as a teaching resource for physicians interested in Pain Medicine.