Biographical summary
W. David Mauck, M.D., is a board-certified Pain Medicine specialist with expertise in interventional pain medicine procedures. He is the past Chairman of the Pain Medicine Division and is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.
Dr. Mauck completed his Anesthesiology residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. In 2002, he was awarded the Mayo Foundation Scholar and completed a Pain Medicine Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Following the fellowship, he was hired at Mayo Clinic in Rochester as an Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine consultant. In 2007, he left the practice of anesthesiology and focuses his full attention on the practice Pain Medicine. He staffs both the Spine Center and Pain Medicine Clinic where he collaborates with PMR, Oncology, Palliative Medicine, Neurology and surgical colleagues.
Dr. Mauck's clinical practice focuses on comprehensive pain control and functional restoration. He has an interest in expanding the role and therapies offered by Pain Medicine, particularly those involving neuromodulation. He continues to actively lecture and publish on Pain Medicine treatment and therapies. He has an interest in cancer, spine and neuropathic pain with an emphasis on treating such conditions with advanced modalities including fluoroscopically and ultrasound guided procedures, spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation and intrathecal drug delivery systems. He is also interested in improving patient access to Pain Medicine by reducing legislative and third-party payer barriers.
Conditions treated
Procedures performed
- Ablation
- Cancer treatment
- Celiac plexus block
- Dorsal root ganglion stimulator implantation
- Epidural blood patch
- Epidural steroid injection
- Fluoroscopy
- Fluoroscopy-guided biopsy
- Injection
- Intrathecal baclofen pump implantation
- Intrathecal morphine pump implantation
- Intrathecal pump implantation
- Joint injection
- Lumbar sympathetic block
- Medial branch block
- Nerve block
- Pain management
- Peripheral nerve block
- Peripheral nerve stimulation
- Radiofrequency ablation
- Radiofrequency neurotomy
- Spinal cord stimulator insertion
- Spinal injection
- Spine procedure
- Stellate ganglion block
- Sympathetic nerve block
- Trigger point injection
- Ultrasound
- Ultrasound-guided cortisone injection
- Ultrasound-guided injection
Interests
- Mononeuropathy pain
- Post-herniorraphy pain
- Chronic knee pain
- Chronic radicular pain
- Cancer related pain
- Functional restoration
- Improving patient access
Mayo Clinic locations
Education
- 2003
ResidentPain Medicine, Programs in Rochester, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
- 2003
FellowPain Medicine, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
- 2002
ResidentAnesthesiology, Programs in Rochester, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
- 2002
ResidentDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
- 1996
InternshipWilford Hall Medical Center, United States Air Force
- 1995
MDUniversity of Missouri, Columbia
- 1990
BS - AgricultureUniversity of Missouri, Columbia
Activities and honors
Certifications
- 2004
Pain MedicineAmerican Board of Anesthesiology
- 2004
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of Anesthesiology
Awards and honors
- 2023
$10,000 from the North’s for Pain Fellowship – Well Being Pilot Project.Department of Development
- 2018
$10,000 from the North’s for Pain Fellowship – Well Being Pilot Project.Department of Development
- 2018
Mr. Lou Gerstner gift of $1.5 Million for the pain register Department of Development
- 1999
Air Force Commendation MedalDepartment of the Air Force
Professional memberships
- 2023 - present
Chair of Health Policy DivisionInternational Pain & Spine Intervention Society
- 2020 - 2021
Vice ChairSIS Health Policy Division
- 2020 - present
Chair/Co-ChairHealth Policy Divison
- 2020 - present
Co-ChairSIS New Curriculm Task Force
- 2020 - present
Co-ChairHealth Policy Division- Spine Intervention
- 2020 - 2023
Vice Chair Health Policy DivisionInternational Pain & Spine Intervention Society
- 2020 - 2022
Co-Chair: New Curriculum Task ForceInternational Pain & Spine Intervention Society
- 2020 - present
MemberSearch Committee - PRC Medical Director Psychiatrist Position, Department of Psychiatry & Psychology
- 2020 - present
MemberAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists
- 2020 - present
MemberMinnesota Society of Anesthesiologists
- 2018 - present
AMA DelegateInternational Pain & Spine Intervention Society
- 2018 - present
MemberAmerican Medical Association
Publications