Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Gary J. Brenner currently sees patients at the Massachusetts General Hospital Pain Management Center where he is the Director of the Mass General Pain Medicine Fellowship. He is an Associate Professor in Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Brenner runs an NIH-funded lab focused on developing gene therapy for the often painful peripheral nervous system tumors associated with neurofibromatosis. He also conducts neuroscience research on the mechanism of action of opioids in the brain, and has authored more than 45 articles, reviews, chapters, and abstracts on gene therapy strategies for NF tumors, the pathophysiology of pain, basic pain mechanisms and immune function, and clinical approaches to chronic pain. Dr. Brenner currently has several national leadership positions related to pain medicine education/training. He completed his MD and PhD degrees at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and completed an anesthesiology residency and a pain medicine fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
It was very professional. They were very friendly. They were very nice people. I'm really thankful very much for the way they treat me and the way they take care of me, especially Dr. Brenner.
Dr. Brenner and his assistants are always excellent. This appointment too was just the same, very, very good. I have zero complaints and only a ton of praise for how I'm treated. Thank you.
The care provider is always very thorough, thoughtful, compassionate, knowledgeable.
Well done
He was very caring and understanding to what was going on and how to approach me
Very knowledgeable and very caring. Got to the root of the matter quickly.
Awesome
Dr. Brenner is a wonderful, pleasant doctor. He took time to listen to what I had to say, explained what they possibly would be doing if they had to do a procedure, and I was very, very happy. He was very knowledgeable of why I was there. And I would highly recommend him to everybody. Thank you.
nice, understanding, helpful, communicates well with other drs. In 1999 I was on vigil with Muscular Dystrophy Assoc. families in end stages. I would visit so family could go home, sleep. The ICU had cameras above thee privacy curtains and at a nurses station a monitor we saw the cleaning crew, lookie loos, watching. I vowed to never go to MGH. ... Read More
An excellent experience with Dr. Brenner. He has been my provider of care for four years and is always very responsive, quick to respond to questions and requests, and has offered excellent clinical work.