Comprehensive Pain Management Partners
New Port Richey, Florida
Dr. Miguel de la Garza is a board-certified physician who practices multidisciplinary
interventional pain management in four offices in the Tampa Bay area. He performs
interventional pain procedures, specializing in minimally invasive surgical decompression and/or
fusion of herniated discs and spinal stenosis, implantable intrathecal pumps, spinal cord
stimulation, sacral fusions and Lumbar spine fusions and peripheral nerve stimulation. Dr. de la Garza has published numerous research papers and abstracts and has presented at regional and national academic conferences. He has
lectured on the topics of anesthesia, interventional pain medicine, and addiction both nationally
and internationally. He is also a consultant for numerous pharmaceutical and medical device
companies.
He is the President for the Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, having
received the service award in first year of being a board member. He has testified to Florida
Medicaid Formulary Committee on the topics of opioid abuse, abuse deterrence and appropriate
measures to fight opioid abuse, misuse and diversion; several abuse deterrent molecules became
preferred and non-abuse deterrent formulations were eliminated. Expert testimony on similar
topics to state of Florida House and Senate helped enact laws ensuring parity of ADOs and non
ADOs. He has also provided written correspondence to FDA subcommittees on topics of Abuse
Deterrent Formulation standards. He is a member of Florida Society for Interventional Pain
Physicians and Florida Medical Association Political Action Committee Boards. He is
contributing author and editor for pain components of CME course and textbook: “Essential
Elements of Personalized Analgesic Medicine.” CME course is provided by LP3 Network
internationally in United States, Canada and Australia, subsidiary of Medisca International. He a
medical advisory board member of Aeon Health Care.
Dr. de la Garza received a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in
Chemistry from Texas Lutheran College in Seguin, Texas. He graduated from the University of
Texas Southwestern Medical School in 2001 and performed his anesthesia residency at the
University of South Florida College of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical
Care from 2001 to 2005. He then completed an interventional pain medicine fellowship at The
Cleveland Clinic, in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, finishing in 2006