Dr. Stefan Friedrichsdorf, M.D., FAAP
Pediatric Pain Specialist
Medical Director, Department of Pain Medicine, Palliative Care & Integrative Medicine
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of MinnesotaAssociate Professor of Pediatrics - University of Minnesota
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Dr. Stefan Friedrichsdorf, M.D., FAAP is the medical director of the Department of Pain Medicine, Palliative Care, and Integrative Medicine at Children’s Minnesota – one of the largest and most comprehensive programs of its kind in the country. He is president-elect of the Special Interest Group on Pain in Childhood of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP).
Dr. Friedrichsdorf received his MD degree from the Medical University of Lübeck, Germany, completed his pediatric residency at the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany (Children’s Hospital Datteln), and undertook his fellowship in Pediatric Pain Medicine & Palliative Care at the University of Sydney, Australia (Children's Hospital at Westmead). He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics, double-boarded in Pediatrics (Germany, USA), and is trained in teaching pediatric hypnosis.
He is associate editor of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, the 2010-2017 principal investigator of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) / National Cancer Institute (NCI) multisite study on the creation, implementation and evaluation of a Pediatric Palliative Care Curriculum (EPEC-Pediatrics: Trained 687 clinicians from 54 countries) and in 2008 he founded and since then directs the annual Pediatric Pain Master Class, a unique week-long intensive course for interdisciplinary health professionals (trained > 600 clinicians from 40 countries).
Dr. Friedrichsdorf has presented more than 700 lectures about pediatric pain medicine, palliative care, and integrative medicine in 28 countries on all six continents and has a track record of research and publications in the field, including contributions to more than 20 books on the subject. Dr. Friedrichsdorf received the 2016 “Elizabeth Narcessian Award for Outstanding Educational Achievements in the Field of Pain” by the American Pain Society and the 2011 “Hastings Center Cunniff- Dixon Physician Award”.