WELLSVILLE, NY (May 14, 2020) –Dr. Gabriel Yacob, a pain
management specialist, will begin seeing patients at the UR Medicine Pain Management
clinics Wellsville, Hornell, and Dansville in early June.
Dr. Yacob will consult and treat patients at Jones Memorial,
St. James Hospital, and Noyes Health. He offers non-invasive and invasive
treatments of neck and back pain, headaches and facial pain, cancer-related
pain, complex regional pain syndromes, nerve injuries and neuropathy, pain of
the joints, chest and abdomen, sports injuries, neuralgia and shingles pain,
and related neuromedicine conditions.
“We are delighted to bring Dr. Yacob to our affiliates in
the Southern Tier,” said Webster Pilcher, M.D., chair of URMC
neurosurgery. “He will offer in-person
and telemedicine appointments and do procedures at St. James Hospital, Noyes
Health and Jones Memorial Hospital, expanding access to local pain management
services in that region.”
Board-certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology as
well as in the subspecialty of pain management, Dr. Yacob received both his
Medical Doctorate and his Masters in clinical pathology from Cairo (Egypt)
University School of Medicine. He
completed a Residency in clinical pathology at Kasr-El Aini School of
Medicine/Cairo University Hospitals; one in internal medicine at New York
Methodist Hospital and Sloan Kettering Center Center/Weill Cornell Medical
College (New York); and one in anesthesiology at Brookdale University and
Staten Island University Hospitals (New York).
Dr. Yacob did his Fellowship in pain management at University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Dr. Yacob has held positions as a staff anesthesiologist at
Ambulatory Surgery Center (Brooklyn), director of pain management at Olean
General Hospital (Olean, NY), and assistant professor in anesthesiology at University
of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston). He
joined UR Medicine’s neurosurgery team in April 2020.
“I am excited to come back to the Southern Tier to serve
patients in this region,” he said.
“There are many types of pain that can be effectively treated, to help
people live a better quality of life.”
Patients need a referral from their primary care physician
to see Dr. Yacob. Appointments can be made at Jones Memorial Hospital by
calling (607) 385-3850.
