Professional Profile

Dr. Daniel Newman is a cum laude (with honors) graduate of the State University of New York Downstate Medical College, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society in 1981. He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at U.C.L.A. affiliated hospitals, and has been board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine since 1984. After a period of private practice, he completed a Pain Fellowship at the Sierra Pain Institute in Reno, Nevada, and has been board certified by the American Board of Pain Medicine since 1997.

Dr. Newman is a 1998 graduate of the U.C.L.A. Physician Acupuncture Program, and has earned a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in June 2008. He completed a Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in 2002, and is board certified by the North American Board of Naturopathic Examiners.

Dr. Newman has logged over 5,000 hours of emergency medicine experience, and is approaching practice track board eligibility in this specialty. He is currently certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, and Advanced Trauma Life Support. He previously served as both an Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instructor and member of the El Dorado-Sacramento Medical Society Emergency Care Committee.

Dr. Newman has also served as the Pain Committee Co-Chair for Madigan Army Medical Center, where he received three Department of Defense Special Recognition Awards for the development of pain treatment protocols. He is currently an international lecturer on pain management as a faculty member of The Foundation for Medical Excellence.

Dr. Newman is currently licensed to practice in Oregon and Washington, and has previously held licensures in California, Nevada, and Hawaii. He has held academic appointments in the Departments of Medicine at: U.C.L.A., University of California at Davis, and University of Nevada, Reno.

Dr. Newman has been a member of the: American Medical Association, California Medical Association, Sacramento-El Dorado Medical Society, Oregon Medical Association, American College of Physicians, American Academy of Pain Medicine, International Association for the Study of Pain, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Academy of Physician Executives, and American Academy of Medical Acupuncture.

Dr. Newman has been a consultant to the: Medical Board of California, Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners, Nevada State Industrial Insurance System, Washington Department of Labor and Industries, Oregon Board of Naturopathic Examiners, and the United States Department of Defense.

Dr. Newman is former President, Chief Medical Officer, and Medical Review Officer for the Northern California MedGroup, overseeing the operations of 5 clinics with 20 physicians attending to over 100,000 patient visits annually between 1989-92. He is former Medical Director of the Sacramento Pain Center (1991-2) and the Sierra Pain and Occupational Rehabilitation Center (1993-1996); the latter was a C.A.R.F. accredited chronic pain rehabilitation program.

Dr. Newman was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he learned that ‘you’s’ is the plural of you, and how to distinguish a real bagel. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1981 in search of mild sunny weather and good avocados. After 4 years of earthquakes, mudslides, and rush hour at midnight, he moved to Sacramento in 1985. He escaped the encroaching Bay Area sprawl by gambling on a move to nearby Reno in 1993. Tiring of the 330 sunny days a year, he moved to the trees of Olympia in 1997. There he learned the value of organic vegan raw sprouted almond butter, before moving to Portland in 1997 to pursue his Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine. He currently resides in the Vancouver, WA area.

Dr. Newman is gratefully married to the lovely Nancy Jo Newman, who is, as aptly put by his son: “a woman that can actually tolerate him.” He is the proud parent of Anya who is aghast that such an educated man can be so ignorant of Elizabethan poetry; and Jacob who refuses to believe that some day his fate will be to make bad puns like his father. He also lives with his 3 cats, who have him well trained to change the cat box weekly, open doors at all hours on command, and provide upholstered furniture for their clandestine scratching.