Richard Shinaman, MD

Dr. Shinaman has a long-standing interest in integrative health and pain medicine. He has completed rigorous training programs in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, acupuncture and herbal medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and pain medicine at the internationally renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Dr. Shinaman maintains double board certifications in anesthesiology and pain medicine. He has published many scientific articles and specialty-based textbook chapters on pain medicine. He was recognized by the California Society of Anesthesiologists as the top research physician in the state, is a Pfizer national pain scholar, and maintains membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.

Dr. Shinaman has lectured nationally on the treatments of complicated pain conditions and the cutting-edge applications of minimally invasive spinal procedures. He has is a treating physician for the Oakland Raiders football, Oakland Athletics baseball teams, as well as many regional fire departments and technology organizations. He has served as the chairman of the pain medicine committees at San Ramon Regional Medical Center in San Ramon, California, and Stanford Valley Care Hospital in Pleasanton, California.

Dr. Shinaman has special expertise in the complicated management of pain disorders coupled with depression or anxiety as well as the use of minimally invasive procedures to heal pain. He is the chief medical officer of WellBrain, a San Francisco tech company that focuses on using mindfulness to help alleviate human pain and suffering.

He spends his free time capturing landscape photographs and mountain biking along California’s Pacific coast.