Dr. Chapman has privileges at Staten Island University Hospital and NYU Langone Medical Center. He is the director of pain management at Staten Island University Hospital, part of the Northwell Health System, where he leads a team of seven pain physicians. Dr. Chapman directs the fellowship program at the Spine and Pain Institute of NY and is actively involved in teaching and lecturing both nationally and internationally. Dr. Chapman also frequently serves as a pain management Board Examiner for certification on the Fellowship of Interventional Pain Practice Pain Boards.
He has won numerous peer validated awards including ‘America’s Best Anesthesiologists’ and ‘Most Compassionate Doctors,’ and was one of the youngest physicians to ever be named as both a NY Times ‘Super Doctor’ and NY Magazine ‘Top Doctor’ when he first received the recognition in 2014. While at the Cleveland Clinic Dr. Chapman also received the “Ethlene R. Smith’s Most Outstanding Fellow” award. He is Vice President of the NYS Interventional Pain Society and on the advisory board to the NYS Worker’s Compensation Board responsible for writing the NYS Worker’s Compensation Guidelines, which all injured workers in the state are treated by.
Dr. Chapman volunteers two days a month at clinics for uninsured or underinsured patients on Staten Island and the Medical Arts Pavilion clinic at Staten Island Hospital North and in Brooklyn at the Family Health Center at NYU Langone. As a native Staten Islander, he gets great satisfaction in helping in the care of the underserved communities of Staten Island and Brooklyn. When treating pain patients, he works in close collaboration with referring physicians including neurologists, internists, and surgeons in an effort to avoid or potentially delay surgery, as well as to facilitate in making an unavoidable surgery more precise. Through his technical expertise, his goal is to provide all interventional options performed in the most accurate manner possible.
Dr. Chapman is most recognized for his expertise in spinal cord stimulation, vertebral compression fractures, and radiofrequency ablative treatments and speaks on these topics regularly around the world. He also heads a research team at the Spine and Pain Institute of New York which has published multiple papers, articles, and book chapters over the years. With his research coordinator and research assistants they are working on multiple projects to improve clinical practice and outcomes as well as with new innovative treatments. Dr. Chapman also speaks Mandarin Chinese.
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