Dr. Antony joined Pain management and Rehabilitation in March 2005 to serve our patients in Seaford and Lewes , Delaware .

Dr. Antony received her medical degree from University of Peradeniya , Sri Lanka , graduating in 1985. After eight years of professional activities in various aspects of clinical medicine and a rewarding experience in administration, she received the Gem of Uva national award for capable hospital administration in 1993. Due to her country's unstable political climate, her family was forced to migrate to Canada/US in 1994. She completed her four year anesthesiology residency program at Texas Tech University Heath Sciences Center at El Paso . She graduated in 2001 with outstanding clinical resident award, class of 2001. Then she joined the ACGME-approved pain management fellowship at University of Maryland for one year. Working in a multi-disciplinary pain center gave her experience in the management of acute pain, chronic pain, and cancer pain, and also performance of entire spectrum of interventional pain procedures including simple nerve blocks, neuraxial procedures, and implantable technology including spinal cord stimulators and intra-thecal pumps. After the completion of the pain fellowship, she worked in James Paton Memorial Hospital , Canada as chief of Anesthesiology and Pain consultant for two years where she became the source of many of the success stories in the field of Pain Management.

Philosophy of Treatment

Dr. Antony believes that being a pain physician is a privilege, as quoted by Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

�We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel my great and ever new privilege. Pain is more terrible lord of man than even death.�

Dr. Antony believes that it is important to educate the patient and his/her family about the prevailing pain condition and the proper management of the condition thoroughly. This is crucial because chronic pain not only affects the patient physically, physiologically, mentally and emotionally as well as disables them, but the truth of the matter is that it cannot be cured completely.

Dr. Antony believes that a multidisciplinary approach to patients with chronic pain is the best way to individualize treatment plans and optimize clinical results.