Hawaii Pain & Spine: Jonathan Carlson, MD in Kailua

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Jonathan D. Carlson, MD is the founding clinician at Hawai'i Pain & Spine on the Windward side of O?ahu in Kailua, Hawai'i. He is an interventional pain specialist who is ABMS double board-certified in pain management and anesthesiology. He firmly believes his pain clinic should be a place “Where the aloha spirit meets innovation and patient care”. He hopes to treat every patient as if they were ohana with the goal of Hawai'i Pain & Spine being a center of excellence for medical treatment, education, and clinical research for his chronic pain patients.
Dr. Carlson is of Filipino (Ilocano) and Swedish descent and his family has been on Kauai and Oahu since the 1940’s. He grew up in California and Aiea, Hawai?i and graduated from Lanakila Baptist High School in ?Ewa Beach, O?ahu. His favorite past times are surfing, playing guitar, doing church/mission work, and spending time with his ohana. Dr. Carlson has had many mentors who have guided him, and he believes in the importance of paying it forward, giving back, and living out the aloha spirit. Because of this, he enjoys volunteering on a regular basis as he feels that helping those less fortunate and underserved is an important aspect of his life. Over the years, he has participated in several local and foreign medical/humanitarian mission trips to Asia, Europe, South America, and Africa.
Dr. Carlson received his medical degree in 2004 from the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City and undertook his residency in anesthesiology at the University of California-Davis in Davis, California. He then completed an ACGME accredited interventional pain management fellowship at Texas Tech University in 2009, where he was fortunate enough to train under Dr. Gabor Racz, one of the fathers of pain medicine.
Dr. Carlson treats a wide variety of chronic pain disorders at Hawai'i Pain & Spine. He has a strong focus in not just treating pain but restoring function and quality of life. He believes whenever possible a multi-modal, com