Christopher Spevak, MD, MPH, JD
Christopher Spevak, MD, MPH, JD, is a Medical Officer at Walter Reed National Military Center where he serves as the Pain Management Fellowship Program Director, the Director of the National Capital Region’s Opioid Safety Program, NCR Pain Initiative and Wounded Warrior Pain Care Initiative. He is a Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine where he directs courses on Physician Professional Identity, Pain and Opioids. Dr. Spevak is the DoD chair of the VA/DoD Opioid Clinical Practice Guideline, Headache Clinical Practice Guideline, Sleep Disorder Clinical Practice Guideline. He advises and assists with the development of policies for clinical practice guideline implementation, safe opioid prescribing, prevention of opioid abuse and diversion, treatment of substance use disorder, and other related programs for Military Health System beneficiaries. He received his medical degree from the Northeast Ohio Medical University and trained at the Cleveland Clinic and University of Pittsburgh Hospitals. Dr. Spevak received a Master of Public Health degree in Health Management and Policy from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Law degree from Catholic University of America. He is a member of numerous medical and legal associations having served as the 143rd President of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia.
