Andrea Rubinstein, MD
Dr. Rubinstein is an anesthesiologist who specializes in chronic pain. Prior to medical school, she worked as a software engineer and has a special love for ‘solving problems’ and she uses an individualized problem-solving approach in all her clinical work.
Dr. Rubinstein attended Stanford University Medical School and completed her residency in anesthesiology at Duke University. While at Stanford, she became fascinated with pain and acutely aware of medicines’ limitations when it comes to solving many of the problems associated with pain.
She joined Kaiser Permanente in 2007 and served as chief of the department of pain medicine in Santa Rosa, California. She sees her role as helping patients find creative solutions to difficult pain syndromes. To do this work, she uses a multidisciplinary, bio-psycho-social approach, optimizing physical reconditioning and therapy, medications, blocks, and injections.
Dr. Rubinstein divides her time between clinical work, research in the area of opioid risk, and teaching and speaking about opioid pharmacology and novel ways to approach thinking about and treating pain.
