Biographical summary
W. David Mauck, M.D., is a board-certified Pain Medicine specialist with expertise in interventional pain medicine procedures. He is the past Chairman of the Pain Medicine Division and is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.
Dr. Mauck completed his Anesthesiology residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. In 2002, he was awarded the Mayo Foundation Scholar and completed a Pain Medicine Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Following the fellowship, he was hired at Mayo Clinic in Rochester as an Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine consultant. In 2007, he left the practice of anesthesiology and focuses his full attention on the practice Pain Medicine. He staffs both the Spine Center and Pain Medicine Clinic where he collaborates with PMR, Oncology, Palliative Medicine, Neurology and surgical colleagues.
Dr. Mauck's clinical practice focuses on comprehensive pain control and functional restoration. He has an interest in expanding the role and therapies offered by Pain Medicine, particularly those involving neuromodulation. He continues to actively lecture and publish on Pain Medicine treatment and therapies. He has an interest in cancer, spine and neuropathic pain with an emphasis on treating such conditions with advanced modalities including fluoroscopically and ultrasound guided procedures, spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation and intrathecal drug delivery systems. He is also interested in improving patient access to Pain Medicine by reducing legislative and third-party payer barriers.
        Conditions treated
        Procedures performed
- Ablation therapy
- Cancer treatment
- Celiac plexus block
- Dorsal root ganglion stimulator implantation
- Epidural blood patch
- Epidural steroid injection
- Fluoroscopy
- Fluoroscopy-guided biopsy
- Injection
- Intrathecal baclofen pump implantation
- Intrathecal morphine pump implantation
- Intrathecal pump implantation
- Joint injection
- Lumbar sympathetic block
- Medial branch block
- Nerve block
- Pain management
- Peripheral nerve block
- Peripheral nerve stimulation
- Radiofrequency ablation
- Radiofrequency neurotomy
- Spinal cord stimulator insertion
- Spinal injection
- Spine procedure
- Stellate ganglion block
- Sympathetic nerve block
- Trigger point injection
- Ultrasound
- Ultrasound-guided cortisone injection
- Ultrasound-guided injection
Interests
- Mononeuropathy pain
- Post-herniorraphy pain
- Chronic knee pain
- Chronic radicular pain
- Cancer related pain
- Functional restoration
- Improving patient access
Mayo Clinic locations
        Education
- 2003ResidentPain Medicine, Programs in Rochester, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine 
- 2003FellowPain Medicine, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine 
- 2002ResidentAnesthesiology, Programs in Rochester, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine 
- 2002ResidentDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine 
- 1996InternshipWilford Hall Medical Center, United States Air Force 
- 1995MDUniversity of Missouri, Columbia 
- 1990BS - AgricultureUniversity of Missouri, Columbia 
Activities and honors
Certifications
- 2004Pain MedicineAmerican Board of Anesthesiology 
- 2004AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of Anesthesiology 
Awards and honors
- 2023$10,000 from the North’s for Pain Fellowship – Well Being Pilot Project.Department of Development 
- 2018$10,000 from the North’s for Pain Fellowship – Well Being Pilot Project.Department of Development 
- 2018Mr. Lou Gerstner gift of $1.5 Million for the pain register Department of Development 
- 1999Air Force Commendation MedalDepartment of the Air Force 
Professional memberships
- 2025 - presentMemberSAC Advancement Committee, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine 
- 2023 - presentChair of Health Policy DivisionInternational Pain & Spine Intervention Society 
- 2020 - 2021Vice ChairSIS Health Policy Division 
- 2020 - presentChair/Co-ChairHealth Policy Divison 
- 2020 - presentCo-ChairSIS New Curriculm Task Force  
- 2020 - presentCo-ChairHealth Policy Division- Spine Intervention 
- 2020 - 2023Vice Chair Health Policy DivisionInternational Pain & Spine Intervention Society 
- 2020 - 2022Co-Chair: New Curriculum Task ForceInternational Pain & Spine Intervention Society 
- 2020 - presentMemberSearch Committee - PRC Medical Director Psychiatrist Position, Department of Psychiatry & Psychology 
- 2020 - presentMemberAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists 
- 2020 - presentMemberMinnesota Society of Anesthesiologists 
- 2018 - presentAMA DelegateInternational Pain & Spine Intervention Society 
- 2018 - presentMemberAmerican Medical Association 
Publications