Biographical summary
W. David Mauck, M.D., completed his Anesthesiology residency in 2002 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 holds the position of Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and is the Chairman of the Pain Medicine Division. He staffs both the Spine Center and Pain Medicine Clinic where he collaborates with PMR, Oncology, Palliative Medicine, Neurology and surgical colleagues. Dr. Mauck 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.
Conditions treated
Procedures performed
- Ablation
- 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
Mayo Clinic locations
Education
- 2003
ResidentPain Medicine, Programs in Rochester, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
- 2003
FellowPain Medicine, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
- 2002
ResidentAnesthesiology, Programs in Rochester, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
- 2002
ResidentDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
- 1996
InternshipWilford Hall Medical Center, United States Air Force
- 1995
MDUniversity of Missouri, Columbia
- 1990
BS - AgricultureUniversity of Missouri, Columbia
Activities and honors
Certifications
- 2004
Pain MedicineAmerican Board of Anesthesiology
- 2004
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of Anesthesiology
Awards and honors
- 2018
$10,000 from the North’s for Pain Fellowship – Well Being Pilot Project.Department of Development
- 2018
Mr. Lou Gerstner gift of $1.5 Million for the pain register Department of Development
- 1999
Air Force Commendation MedalDepartment of the Air Force
Professional memberships
- 2020 - 2021
SIS Health Policy Division
- 2020 - present
Health Policy Divison
- 2020 - present
SIS New Curriculm Task Force
- 2020 - present
Health Policy Division- Spine Intervention
- 2020 - present
Spine Intervention Society
- 2020 - present
Spine Intervention Society
- 2020 - present
Search Committee - PRC Medical Director Psychiatrist Position, Department of Psychiatry & Psychology
Publications