At Advanced Diagnostic Pain Treatment Centers physicians are dedicated to finding the cause of chronic intractable pain, offering potentially curative therapies when possible and life stage approrpriate life care plans for intractable symtoms.

Lloyd R. Saberski M.D. completed his medical training at New York Medical College in 1982. Internal Medicine and Anesthesiology Residencies followed this at the Albany Medical College, Albany, NY. Board Certification was granted in both specialties in 1985 and 1988 respectively. Subsequent completion of a Pain Management Fellowship at Albany Medical College in 1988 was followed by a one-year appointment to the Anesthesiology faculty with primary commitment to the Albany Center for Pain Management.

In 1989, Dr. Saberski joined the Yale faculty and the Yale Center for Pain Management. He founded the Yale University Fellowship in Pain Management served as its director from inception until 1998. In 1991 he was appointed Clinical Director and in 1997 Medical Director of the Center. In 1998, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and became the first Yale faculty ever promoted to the rank of Associate Professor from achievements in the fields of Chronic Pain Management.

In 1999 Dr Saberski opened a private practice privileged at Yale New Haven Hospital and Hospital of St. Raphael dedicated to the diagnosis and management of chronic painful disorders. Dr. Saberski is devoted full-time to clinical care, research and teaching of pain management. He has published extensively and is author of over 200 manuscripts, textbook chapters, papers and lectures. He serves as consultant to numerous agencies, panels, organizations and lectures frequently on topics in pain management, especially "new technologies". Dr. Saberski is the Editor-in-chief of THE PAIN CLINIC, www.maney.co.uk/journals/pai .

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During his tenure on the University of Pittsburgh faculty, Dr. Levin was an attending physician at the internationally renowned pain management rehabilitation center, he co-developed the interventional pain management program, and he developed and directed a cancer pain service.

In 1997 Dr. Levin was recruited to the Yale University School of Medicine. In 1998 he assumed the directorship of the Yale Pain Management Fellowship. Since coming to Connecticut, Dr. Levin has remained committed on all levels to making quality pain management services available to patients. He has served as a co-chair of the American Cancer Society's Connecticut Cancer Pain Initiative, a pain management consultant to the Connecticut Hospice, and has been an active advocate in support of state legislation giving more patients access to pain management services.

Dr. Levin has published numerous articles and lectures frequently throughout the country on the management of chronic, cancer, and acute pain. He has also conducted research on clinical pain management and novel analgesic agents. Dr. Levin brings his remarkable breadth of clinical pain management experience to the Advance Diagnostic Pain Management Treatment Center team.

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Kara Fitzgerald received her doctorate of naturopathic medicine from National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon. She completed the first CNME-accredited residency in nutritional biochemistry and functional laboratory science at Metametrix Clinical Laboratory. She completed her clinical residency training at two large integrative medical centers in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Fitzgerald is a co-author of the 2nd addition of Laboratory Evaluations in Molecular Medicine and is currently writing a book of case studies in integrative medicine with Mark Hyman, MD. Dr. Fitzgerald has presented in a variety of arenas including The Institute of Women’s Health, Autism One and the Institute for Functional Medicine.

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Marilou Oh completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. She was also a licensed Practical Nurse who worked in the cardiovascular surgery unit at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.

She later graduated from the D'Youville College Physician Assistant Program in Buffalo, New York and came to Connecticut in 2003 to join the Advanced Diagnostic Pain Treatment Center Group in New Haven.

She is certified by the National Commission on Certification of
Physician Assistants. She is a member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants and the Connecticut Association of Physician Assistants.

She is currently a member of the Pain advisory board for Janssen and Alpharma and is on the speaker's bureau for Ligand.

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Graduated New York Medical College. Finished a residency in Anesthesiology in 1987 and moved to Connecticut. Practiced hospital anesthesiology for a number of years, taking some time off to raise children. Became interested in the care of patients with chronic pain, who require a multi-faceted approach from a variety of fields. Began working for ADPTC in 2006, drawn by the well-known reputation of the practice and the wide array of patients. Her responsibilities include follow-up visits, medication management, and management of patients with electrical stimulators; currently establishing support groups for patients with chronic pain.

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Joanna Furmonavicius, PA-C, completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.  Upon matriculation, she elected to do a year of volunteer service for Catholic Charities, where she served as director of a non-profit agency in Oregon.  During her time there she also helped write a grant, and then after its approval, opened an adult services day-center for seniors with Alzheimer’s.

Joanna returned to CT in 1997 and worked in an ophthalmology practice specializing in retino-vitreal diseases.  During her time in the ophthalmology field she served as a technician, clinical supervisor, surgical assistant, and coordinator for a FDA-study evaluating cutting-edge treatments for Age-related Macular Degeneration.  She temporarily left the ophthalmology world to attend the Physician Assistant Program at Lemoyne College in Syracuse, NY.

Looking to expand her horizons, she joined the Advance Diagnostic Pain Treatment Center Group in New Haven, CT in 2007.  She is certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants and she is a Fellow-member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.

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