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Undergraduate

Pennsylvania State University
State College, Pennsylvania
Degree: Bachelor of Science
Year Graduated: 1978

Medical School

Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Degree: Doctor of Medicine
Year Graduated: 1982

Residency

Anesthesia Continuum
New England Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
July 1, 1982 to June 30, 1985

Fellowship

Pain Management
Beth Israel Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
July 1, 1985 to June 30, 1986


Anesthesiologist
SpineCare Medical Group, Inc.

Spinal Diagnostics
1850 Sullivan Avenue

Pain Management
Daly City, California



  • American Board of Anesthesiology, October 1991
  • State of California Medical License G59090
  • Diplomate of the American Board of Pain Medicine, February 1995



  • California Medical Society
  • San Mateo County Medical Association
  • North American Spine Society
  • International Spinal Injection Society



  1. Kine G, Warfield C: Myofacial pain syndrome. Hospital Practice, 9;194-B196, 1986.
  2. 2. Kine G: Myofacial syndrome, Manual of Pain Management. C Warfield, ed., J.B. Lippincott, 1991.
  3. 3. Kine G, Derby R: Therapeutic blocking procedures. In Conservative Care of Low Back Pain. AH White, R Anderson, ed. pp. 137-143, 1991.
  4. 4. Derby R, Kine G, Saal JA, Reynolds J, Goldthwaite N, White AH, Hsu K, Zucherman J: Steroid response and duration of radicular pain as a predictor of surgical outcome. Spine 17(6);176-183, June 1992.
  5. 5. Kine G, Bushnell L: Acute and postoperative pain. Principles and Practice of Pain Management. C Warfield, ed., Marinus Nijhoff, ed. McGraw Hill, 1993.
  6. 6. Derby R, Bogduk N, Kine G: Precision percutaneous blocking procedures for localizing spinal pain. Part 2. The lumbar neuroaxial compartment. Pain Digest, New York, 1993, 3;175-188
  7. 7. Schwarzer A, Aprill C, Derby R, Fortin J, Kine G, Bogduk N: The relative contributions of the discs and zygapophysial joint in chronic low back pain. Spine 19(7)801-806, April 1994.
  8. 8. Schwarzer A, Aprill C, Derby R, Fortin J, Kine G, Bogduk N: The clinical features of patients with pain stemming from the lumbar zygapophysial joints: Is the lumbar facet syndrome a clinical entity? Spine 19;1132-1137.
  9. 9. Schwarzer A, Derby R, Aprill C, Fortin J, Kine G, Bogduk N: Pain from the lumbar zygapophysial joints: A test of two models. J Spinal Disord 7(4)331-335, August 1994.
  10. 10. Schwarzer A, Derby R, Aprill C, Fortin J, Kine G, Bogduk N: The false-positive rate of uncontrolled diagnostic blocks of the lumbar zygapophysial joints. Pain, 58 (1994) 195-200.
  11. 11. Schwarzer, Aprill, Derby, Fortin, Kine, Bogduk: The value of the provocation in zygapophysical joint injections. The Clinical Journal of Pain, 10 (1994) 309-313.
  12. 12. Schofferman J, Kine G. The effectiveness of repeated radiofrequency neurotomy for lumbar facet pain. Spine 29:2471-2473, 2004.



Course Faculty, International Spinal Injection Society, Daly City, California,
May 9-10, 1992:
Instructor: Hands-on lumbar spine injection meeting with cadavers.

Course Faculty, International Spinal Injection Society, Daly City, California,
November 14-15, 1992:
Instructor: Hands-on anatomical workshop on cervical & thoracic injection treatments using cadavers.

Course Faculty, International Spinal Injection Society, Daly City, California,
June 5-6, 1993:
Instructor: Hands-on lumbar spine injection meeting with cadavers.

Course Faculty, International Spinal Injection Society, Daly City, California,
November 13-14, 1993:
Instructor: Hands-on anatomical workshop on cervical & thoracic injection treatments using cadavers.

Course Faculty, International Spinal Injection Society, Daly City, California,
June 4-5, 1994:
Instructor: Hands-on lumbar spine injection meeting with cadavers.

Course Faculty, International Spinal Injection Society, Daly City, California,
August 20-21, 1994:
Instructor: Hands-on anatomical workshop on discography using cadavers.

Course Faculty, International Spinal Injection Society, Daly City, California
November 12-13, 1994.
Instructor: Hands-on anatomical workshop on cervical and thoracic injection treatments using cadavers.

Course Faculty, International Spinal Injection Society, Daly City, California,
July 22-23, 1995.
Instructor: Hands-on lumbar spine injection meeting with cadavers.

Course Faculty, International Spinal Injection Society, Daly City, California,
June 1-2, 1996.
Instructor: Hands-on anatomical workshop on cervical and thoracic injection treatments using cadavers.

Course Faculty, International Spinal Injection Society, Daly City, California,
November 2-3, 1996.
Instructor: Hands-on anatomical workshop on discography using cadavers.



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