Profile : Llewellyn Packia Raj, M.D.

Llewellyn Packia Raj, M.D. Staff Physician Phone : 425.513.8509 Fax : 425.290.9774 E-mail : lpackiaraj@ubcinc.org

Biography

Dr. Packia Raj has had experience in treating musculoskeletal injuries, injured workers, chronic pain patients and working with critically ill hospitalized patients. He has worked with patients dealing with cancer pain and has training and experience in multiple diagnostic and interventional procedures, including electrodiagnostic procedures, musculoskeletal ultrasound and imaging guided spine and other pain management procedures. His primary interests also include improving clinical management and outcomes for patients and advocating for patient and health care reform on a broad-scale public basis.

Education

Dr. Packia Raj graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Psychology. He completed medical school at St George's University School of Medicine in Grenada. He subsequently completed an Internal Medicine residency with the University of Wisconsin and Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Following that, he completed a residency in Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington. He then completed a fellowship in Pain Management at the Virginia Commonwealth University (Medical College of Virginia.)

Professional Background

Dr. Packia Raj was a staff physician at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. He has been in private practice in the great Seattle metropolitan area before coming to UBC. He has held a position of Clinical Assistant Professor for the University of Washington and has participated in the education of residents and fellows at the University of Washington, Virginia Commonwealth University and a clinical interventional spine fellowship. He also works as a hospitalist at Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue.

He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine and Pain Medicine.