BMH Expands Center for Pain Relief, Welcomes Dr. Sophie Hanna

Dr. Hanna and the team of board certified anesthesiologists at the BMH Center for Pain Relief offer the full spectrum of pain relief treatments – meaning that patients can get the treatment regimen best suited to help relieve their pain.

“We wanted the Center for Pain Relief to provide patients with comprehensive options for pain treatment and to be led by specialists board certified in pain relief,” says Rick Allen, Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategic Planning. “With the addition of Dr. Hanna as the new full-time Medical Director of the BMH Center for Pain Relief, we can offer a wider spectrum of clinical expertise to those who need relief from pain. The BMH Center for Pain Relief and Dr. Hanna, who is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation and soon in pain management, will work directly in support of primary care doctors in the region to provide the absolute best and latest treatment options and feedback for continuing care.” 

Dr. Hanna was specialty fellowship trained in pain management at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh and Temple University School of Medicine. She is currently board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and is board eligible for Pain Management. She attended Minya University’s School of Medicine in Egypt and then served a residency in internal medicine at Dar El-Salam General Hospital in Cairo, Egypt. She completed a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency first at St. Francis Medical Center and then at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh before completing her pain management fellowship.

Dr. Hanna is a member of the American Board of Anesthesiology, the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Pennsylvania Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Pittsburgh Pain Society.

Procedures available at the BMH Center for Pain Relief include trigger point injections, epidural steroid injections, occipital nerve blocks, peripheral nerve blocks, physical therapy and physical medicine and rehabilitation. Also available under fluoroscopic guidance will be cervical/thoracic/lumbar epidural steroid injections, facet blocks, nerve root blocks, sympathetic chain blocks and sacroiliac joint injections.          

The BMH Center for Pain Relief will be located on Third Floor in the hospital and can be reached at 724-284-4612.