Antje M Barreveld, MD

Antje M. Barreveld, MD is Medical Director of the Pain Management Services and co-Founder and Director of Education and Outreach for the Substance Use Services (SUS). She is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts University School of Medicine, and an Anesthesiologist with Commonwealth Anesthesia Associates at Newton-Wellesley Hospital since 2012. Dr. Barreveld is also a Clinical Researcher at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. She regularly teaches medical students on pain management principles at Harvard Medical School and Tufts University School of Medicine. She graduated from the University of California San Francisco Medical School and completed her Residency in Anesthesiology and Fellowship in Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her clinical interests are in managing chronic pelvic pain in men and women, acute and chronic postoperative pain, interdisciplinary spine care, safe practices in co-managing pain and addiction, and complex interventional procedures from diagnostic nerve blocks to spinal cord stimulation including dorsal root ganglion stimulation.

Nationally, Dr. Barreveld serves in numerous leadership and pain advocacy roles. She served as Co-Principal Investigator of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Brigham and Women's Hospital Center of Excellence in Pain Education (CoEPE), designated by the National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium. She is co-Editor for the Education Section of Pain Medicine, the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, for whom she also serves as an elected Board member. She is an appointed expert to the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Substance Use Disorder Working group. Dr. Barreveld served as an invited member of the National Quality Forum (NQF) technical expert panel for opioid and opioid use disorder, to work towards consensus decisions regarding the current state of opioid-related healthcare quality measures. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in high-ranking scientific journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, and Anesthesia & Analgesia. Her teaching, pain expertise, and community-based advocacy efforts have been featured in several news outlets including PBS NewsHour, the New York Times, National Public Radio, StatNews, and the Boston Globe.