Specialty 1: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation - Physiatry

Specialty 2: Pain Management - Medicine

Keywords/Search Terms: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation / Pain Medicine Pain, Interventional Pain, Pain Medicine, Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, Catastrophic Rehabilitation, Polytrauma, Amputation, Function, Activities of Daily Living.

Medical School: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine

License(s): FL

Years in Practice: 6

• <5 years performing IMEs

Additional Information

Sarah Michelle Pastoriza, DO, is a practicing physician who joined RED Medical Legal in 2024. Dr. Pastoriza earned her medical degree at Lake Erie College of osteopathic medicine and completed residency in MetroHealth Medical Center in 2018, serving as Chief Resident in her senior year. She also completed pain fellowship in University of Alabama in Birmingham 2019, and completed a secondary fellowship in interventional orthobiologics at the Centeno-Schultz Clinic in Broomfield, CO in 2020. She worked for University Hospitals in Cleveland, OH running the consult service at the main campus, along with doing her pain clinic. She also functioned Associate Program Director for the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation program. She left this position to move closer to family and now works at Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, FL. In this position she works as an Interventional Pain physician, and continues to work in general inpatient rehabilitation through call responsibilities. Dr. Pastoriza is double board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and in Pain Medicine. She is active in multiple professional organizations. She speaks both English and Spanish.