Meet Dr. Kelly De Souza
Dr. Kelly De Souza is a double board-certified physician in anesthesiology and interventional pain medicine. She has over 10 years of experience treating severe and chronic pain. Her goal is always to help her patients get back on their feet and regain a higher quality of life through multiple treatment modalities.
Get In TouchAs a doctor at the Advanced Relief Institute in Florida, Dr. De Souza helps people improve their ability to participate in and enjoy life. She does this by offering cutting-edge interventional treatments that target pain at its source.
Education, Training, and Teaching
Dr. De Souza attended the Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine in Puerto Rico, where she graduated summa cum laude with her medical degree in 2010. She then underwent her residency training and an interventional pain management fellowship at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, FL.
From 2015 to 2020, Dr. De Souza worked as a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Miami/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. During this time, she taught many students how to help their patients with a multidisciplinary approach to pain management.
She has been involved in many research projects since 2012 in the field of pain management.
Dr. De Souza has discussed her findings at several professional conferences, including:
- American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
- North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS)
- The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA)
- American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
Why Choose Dr. De Souza for Pain Management?
Dr. De Souza has over a decade of experience treating severe and chronic pain. She has the skill and academic background to diagnose and treat complex conditions, both acute and chronic.
Dr. De Souza is dedicated to helping her patients live the life they want, without pain holding them back.
She works diligently to help patients from various backgrounds and ethnicities. Dr. De Souza is fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. She can also understand Italian and French to a limited extent.
Areas of Expertise
Dr. De Souza specializes in interventional pain management techniques and restorative medicine. She offers a multimodal approach by combining physical therapy, pain medication, procedural interventions, and other therapies.
Given her academic background, Dr. De Souza has an extensive network of professional contacts and experts in her field. She can consult with numerous specialists to help provide targeted results specific to her patients’ unique conditions if necessary. She prefers to address pain as part of an overarching intervention, which often requires such collaboration.
Actual Patient Testimonial
“For the better part of two decades, I have suffered from debilitating head and neck pain. I have a host of other issues and pains in multiple joints and bones that Dr. DrSouza has treated, but, most significantly, Dr. DeSouza has helped me be able to put my head down on a pillow at the end of the day without the excruciating headaches and neck pain that I had been sure would require surgery. I trust her implicitly and will forever be grateful for having been referred to her several years ago. She is a lifesaver! She is also able to calm my nerves and exudes complete confidence during the most complicated procedures. Thank Heaven for her and her continued care and nurturing!”
M. M.