Michelle Ayers Dugan, NP

Michelle Dugan received her Bachelor's degree in Nursing from the University of Rochester and her Masters' degree in Science of Nursing from Saint John Fisher.

She is licensed in New York State as a Family Nurse practitioner, is certified by American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Family N...

Michelle Dugan received her Bachelor's degree in Nursing from the University of Rochester and her Masters' degree in Science of Nursing from Saint John Fisher.

She is licensed in New York State as a Family Nurse practitioner, is certified by American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Family Nurse Practitioner, and is board certified in Pain Management Nursing. She is a member of the The Nurse Practitioner Association of NYS, The American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and The American Pain Society.

Michelle's background is diverse and specialized. As a registered nurse she worked and was involved in all aspects of emergency nursing, prehospital care, and flight nursing.

As a Nurse Practitioner she continued to practice per diem in the emergency department and maintain full-time practice status as a Nurse Practitioner in other areas. For 8 years, she cared for the dialysis patient population's chronic medical and psychosocial needs.

Due to her expertise in fistula management she was recruited by the vascular surgery group to promote their dialysis vascular access program. In addition to vascular access management, she provided clinic visits to a variety of vascular surgery patient specific entities to include arterial and venous diseases and syndromes. During her time with vascular surgery, she developed the neurogenic thoracic outlet clinic with Dr. Karl Illig.

Michelle translated her skills to the NeuroMedicine Pain Management clinic in 2010-2023 where she she provided expertise consultation for Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. In addition she is well versed and skilled in many pain syndromes, neuromodulation therapy and intrathecal pumps.

In 2023 she transferred to the department of OB/GYN. She has translated her pain skills to the management of chronic overlapping pelvic pain conditions such as myofascial pain, pelvic floor dysfunction, endometriosis, abnormal uterine bleeding, fibroids, pudendal neuralgia, and interstitial cystitis. She is working in conjunction with skilled minimally invasive gynecological surgeons who provide also provide gender affirmation care.
Publications:

Journals:
2015 Jun
Markman JD, Barbosa WA, Gewandter JS, Frazer M, Rast S, Dugan M, Nandigam K, Villareal A, Kwong TC. "Interpretation of urine drug testing results in patients using transdermal buprenorphine preparations for the treatment of chronic noncancer pain." Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. 2015 Jun; 16(6):1132-6. Epub 2015 Mar 20.

2011 Jul
Glass C, Dugan M, Gillespie D, Doyle A, Illig K. "Costoclavicular venous decompression in patients with threatened arteriovenous hemodialysis access." Annals of vascular surgery. 2011 Jul; 25(5):640-5. Epub 2011 Apr 21.

2011 Feb
Kumar NG, Dugan MM, Illig KA, Gillespie DL. "Lower extremity arteriovenous fistula with central venous stenosis iliocaval stenting to treat venous outflow obstruction." Journal of vascular surgery. 2011 Feb; 53(2):487-8. Epub 2010 Nov 18.

Books:
2013
Michelle Dugan, NP. "Psychosocial Effects of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome". Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. Illig, MD, Thompson, MD, Freischlag, MD, Donahue, MD, Jordon MD, and Edgelow MD. NY: Springer, 2013. 271-276

Michelle Dugan received her Bachelor's degree in Nursing from the University of Rochester and her Masters' degree in Science of Nursing from Saint John Fisher.

She is licensed in New York State as a Family Nurse practitioner, is certified by American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Family N...

Michelle Dugan received her Bachelor's degree in Nursing from the University of Rochester and her Masters' degree in Science of Nursing from Saint John Fisher.

She is licensed in New York State as a Family Nurse practitioner, is certified by American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Family Nurse Practitioner, and is board certified in Pain Management Nursing.

Michelle's background is diverse and specialized. As a registered nurse she worked and was involved in all aspects of emergency nursing, prehospital care, and flight nursing.

As a Nurse Practitioner she continued to practice per diem in the emergency department and maintain full-time practice status as a Nurse Practitioner in other areas. For 8 years, she cared for the dialysis patient population's chronic medical and psychosocial needs.

Due to her expertise in fistula management she was recruited by the vascular surgery group to promote their dialysis vascular access program. In addition to vascular access management, she provided clinic visits to a variety of vascular surgery patient specific entities to include arterial and venous diseases and syndromes. During her time with vascular surgery, she developed the neurogenic thoracic outlet clinic with Dr. Karl Illig.

Michelle translated her skills to the NeuroMedicine Pain Management clinic in 2010-2023 where she she provided expertise consultation for Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. In addition she is well versed and skilled in many pain syndromes, neuromodulation therapy and intrathecal pumps.

In 2023 she transferred to the department of OB/GYN. She has translated her pain skills to the management of chronic overlapping pelvic pain conditions such as myofascial pain, pelvic floor dysfunction, endometriosis, abnormal uterine bleeding, fibroids, pudendal neuralgia, and interstitial cystitis. She is working in conjunction with skilled minimally invasive gynecological surgeons who provide also provide gender affirmation care.

Michelle is a member of the New York State Nurse Practitioner's Association, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. and the American Pain Society. She serves as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Rochester School of Nursing.

Her area of special interest and publications is Thor...

Michelle is a member of the New York State Nurse Practitioner's Association, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. and the American Pain Society. She serves as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Rochester School of Nursing.

Her area of special interest and publications is Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. She has participated in Clinical Research with the departments Translational Pain Research Division at the University of Rochester.