Thalia J. Segal, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and a Pain Management Attending at New York University Medical Center. She is actively involved in Fellowship education and manages the inpatient Acute Pain service at NYU-Tisch Hospital. Her interests include care of pain in the setting of chronic medical illness and the optimization of post-surgical pain outcomes. Her research interests include the study of alvimopam, an agent designed to improve tolerance of opioid analgesics by minimizing the complication of constipation. She is also involved in a trial of oxcarbazepine for the treatment of neuropathic pain.

Dr. Segal received her Bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College and her medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester-Strong Memorial Hospital and a residency in Anesthesiology at the Harvard-Brigham and Women's Hospital. She did a fellowship in Pain Management at the Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital in Boston. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Anesthesia and Pain Management.

Dr. Segal has served as an Instructor in Anesthesiology at the New York Presbyterian Hospital--Weill Cornell Medical Center and since 2002, has been a Clinical Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology/Pain Management at the New York University Medical Center.

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