The ability to provide the absolute, most meaningful type of patient care is what drew Dr. Surmeet Singh Chhina to anesthesiology and then to pain management. "Nothing is more noticeable to a patient than their pain - whether it be in the acute/peri-operative setting or in the more long term chronic setting," he said. "People are deeply affected by pain both physically and emotionally and having the ability to modify that and improve someone's quality of life is one of the most rewarding things one can do in medicine." Earning a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Chhina earned his medical degree from the Detroit-based Wayne State University School of Medicine. He worked as a preliminary surgery intern at Allegheny General Hospital and completed an anesthesiology residency at Allegheny Health Network. Upon completing a pain medicine fellowship at Case Western University in Ohio, he joined the National Spine and Pain Centers in late summer 2018.