Ben Arevalo, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor
Anesthesia
School of Medicine

Dr. Ben Arevalo is a triple-board certified physician who specializes in interventional pain medicine and palliative medicine. While he treats a variety of painful conditions ranging from benign to malignant, he has a particular interest in using advanced interventional techniques for managing cancer-related pain.

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In his role as a palliative medicine specialist, he also helps patients maximize their quality of life by managing symptoms related to cancer including pain, fatigue, nausea, low appetite, insomnia, anxiety, and depression. He also supports patients and their families with medical decision making and advance care planning.

Education & Training

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• Interventional Pain Medicine Fellowship Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital 07/2024
• Hospice and Palliative Care Fellowship University of California, San Francisco 06/2022
• Emergency Medicine Residency University of Chicago 06/2021
• MD, MBA MD, MBA Harvard Medical School/Harvard Business School 05/2018
• BA Human Biology (Honors) Stanford University 06/2011

Interests

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• Advance Care Planning
• Cancer Pain
• Emergency Medicine
• Palliative Care

Publications (5)

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tau ProteinsNeurofibrillary TanglesCoronavirus InfectionsBehavior TherapyLungBetacoronavirusAcetylationPsychiatryPlaque, AmyloidPneumonia, ViralClinical ClerkshipRisk AssessmentEducation, Medical, UndergraduateAbdominal PainTauopathies

• Emergency physicians in pain medicine: Workforce trends, competency overlap, gaps, and opportunities for integration.
  Interventional pain medicine 2025 Merz-Herrala JR, Ocampo F, Abrecht CR, Ben Arevalo J, Chai NC
• Lung Base Findings of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) on Abdominal CT in Patients With Predominant Gastrointestinal Symptoms.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2020 Siegel A, Chang PJ, Jarou ZJ, Paushter DM, Harmath CB, Arevalo JB, Dachman A
• Integrating Suicide Risk Assessment and Management Tools into Medical Student Education: A Novel Clerkship in Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2016 Carmel A, Arevalo JB
• Reducing dosing errors and increasing clinical efficiency in Guatemala: first report of a novel mHealth medication dosing app in a developing country
  BMJ Innovations 2015 Segal JB, Arevalo JB, Franke MF, Palazuelos D
• Argyrophilic grain disease differs from other tauopathies by lacking tau acetylation.
  Acta neuropathologica 2013 Grinberg LT, Wang X, Wang C, Sohn PD, Theofilas P, Sidhu M, Arevalo JB, Heinsen H, Huang EJ, Rosen H, Miller BL, Gan L, Seeley WW