Mayuko Sakae, MD, is a world-class palliative care and pain management physician with global experience dating back more than two decades. She has tended to the sick at the Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Calcutta, India, cared for leprosy and malaria patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, handled culturally sensitive cases for Israel’s Jewish and Arab patients, and alleviated pain for adults and children in renowned facilities across the U.S.
At City of Hope National Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, she holds multiple key positions: Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Supportive Care Medicine, Chair of the Pediatric and Adolescent & Young Adult Pain and Supportive Care Committee in the Pediatric Department, and Site Director for the Pediatric Palliative Medicine of Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine Fellowship.
Dr. Sakae, a Johns Hopkins University graduate, earned her medical degree at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, in collaboration with Columbia University Medical Center. After completing a pediatrics internship and residency at University of Florida College of Medicine — Jacksonville, Dr. Sakae turned to palliative care, earning a dual-board fellowship in both pain medicine and palliative medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Additionally, she studied Leprosy Management and Rehabilitation Training at the All Africa Leprosy, Tuberculosis and Rehabilitation Training Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Dr. Sakae is very passionate about integrative medicine by combining the conventional western medicine with eastern medicine and psycho-spiritual treatments such as Acupuncture, hypnotherapy, meditation and herbal medicine as well as mechanical balance restoration and energy treatments: chiropractic’s, ortho-bionomy, kinesiology.
