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Sandy Christiansen, M.D.

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  • Assistant Professor
  • Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, School of Medicine

Specialty

  • Anesthesiology

Clinical focus

  • Pain

Locations and contact

I see patients at
Tall building with the ariel tram to its left
Center for Health & Healing, Building 1
503-494-8311
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About me

Dr. Christiansen is a double board certified physician in anesthesiology and pain medicine who specializes in chronic pain management. Dr. Christiansen joined the faculty of the Comprehensive Pain Center in 2016 after completing her fellowship in pain medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She currently sees patients in the Center for Health and Healing - Comprehensive Pain Center. She specializes in the treatment of cancer, neuropathic and spine related pain advocating a multimodal approach to all patients. Dr. Christiansen believes that chronic pain affects the mind, body and spirit and as such advocates therapies that will address all three aspects of the patient by collaborating with physical therapists, psychologists, chiropractors, and other specialists in effort to treat the entire person. In addition to performing a variety of spine, nerve, muscle, and joint injections, she is also formally trained in acupuncture, which she employs as part of her multimodal approach to patients.

In her spare time, Dr. Christiansen enjoys reading, gardening, hiking with her husband and Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and trying new restaurants.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • B.S., 2007, University of Notre Dame
    • M.D., 2011, Loyola University of Chicago Stritch
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Insurance

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Ratings and reviews

Overall: 4.7 out of 5 (42 Ratings, 21 Reviews)

The patient ratings score is an average of all responses to the question "How likely would you be to recommend this provider to your family and friends (on a scale of 0 to 10)" on our nationally-recognized NRC patient surveys.

  1. Fantastic!

  2. Dr. Christiansen is one of the best doctors I've seen in my 52.extremely competent and very empathetic.its a rare person that has both in my opinion . Her medical student was a bit rudeinterrupted multiple times and needs to work on his listening skills. Many of the questions and points he made were well discussed in prior visits.

  3. Very nice and easy to talk to.

  4. She was professional, thorough, and caring - excellent in every way!

  5. Sandy Christiansen is awesome! She's knowledgeable, responsive, helpful, empathetic and sensitive to patient's needs (certainly mine!) She's a gem and I'm so happy I found her!

  6. Dr Christensen is skilled and caring

  7. Friendly, personal, knowledgeable, careful, and thorough

  8. Jacob, the medical student, was great. Very thoughtful and kind. Dr. Christensen is the best! Always compassionate, professional but also very warm, extremely knowledgeable.

  9. Dr. Sandy Christiansen and her entire team are superb.

  10. Dr Christianson helped me a lot! She Persevered when Medtronic did not seem to be on the ball. She called Medtronic and got the clinician to call me. The clinician at Medtronic gave me slow,directions in order to let me write it down. I now think I'm pretty confident in adjusting the device to adjust. I feel that Dr Christian really helped to facilitate this. She rocks!

  11. Dr. Christensen (and team) were amazing. I was a little grumpy to start because it took almost a week to even get scheduled and have my initial appt after my referral which also took a few days. However, once I was scheduled and seen, the staff was amazing during my virtual and in-person visit. Special thanks to Dr. Christensen.

  12. You mention a clinician, but I saw my doctor and her assistant who was also a doctor.

  13. Dr. Sandy Christiansen is among the best-both in person visits and virtual. I am grateful to receive her care and that of her team.

  14. Always caring and informative

  15. She listened and was very helpful with helping me find a place for physical therapy

  16. I've been working with her for several years. I trust her guidance .

  17. Dr sandy is kind and listens and acts like she truly cares. Her staff areVery sweet

  18. Sandy Christian is a superb clinician . I feel very well taken care of I also enjoyed interacting with her fellow !

  19. She's very attentive and thorough, answers questions regardless of how trivial they may be, pleasant and professional.

  20. Dr Christiansen embodies everything a patient hopes for in their doctor. To start, she explained in great detail what my issues are and what the recommended course of treatment will do for me.

  21. I am feeling more confidence and trust that my doctor and I are on the same page. I appreciate getting my doctor's insight on medication that may work better for me ahead of seeing my primary care physician.