Moacir Schnapp, MD

Neurologist/Medical Director
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“One of the things I enjoy most about working with patients who suffer from chronic pain is the challenge of solving a puzzle. What is really causing the pain? That’s the key. Once I determine what is causing the pain, I can develop a multidisciplinary strategy that includes a combination of therapies that effectively work together to provide maximum pain relief.”

Dr. Moacir Schnapp has decades of experience as a neurologist focusing on treating patients with chronic pain. He grew up in Brazil where he earned his medical degree from the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil and completed his post graduate medical school studies in neuropsychiatry. 

Dr. Schnapp came to Memphis to continue his education. After completing a fellowship in pain management from the University of Tennessee, he returned to Brazil to take the position of associate professor at the University of São Paulo and medical director of the Instituto da Dor. He later returned to Memphis and served as the director of the University of Tennessee Pain Clinic.

In 1985, Dr. Schnapp, along with Dr. Kit Mays, founded the pain management clinic, and in 1993 expanded to include a rehabilitation center, creating what is now the most established and well-regarded pain management facility in the Mid-South. Mays & Schnapp Neurospine and Pain is one of the first pain clinics in the United States, and one of the first to be certified in all areas of adult pain management and rehabilitation by  Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). 

Dr. Schnapp serves as medical director for Mays & Schnapp and is an assistant professor of medicine, in the general internal medicine department at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Dr. Schnapp is a member of the Tennessee Medical Association and Memphis Medical Association.

Education and Training

 

  • University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, TN - Fellowship in Pain Management

  • Hospital das Clinicas, São Paulo, Brazil - Residency, Neuropsychology

  • University of São Paulo, Brazil - Doctor of Medicine

Research and Inventions

 

  • “Apparatus for the rehabilitation of the limb in Reflex

  • Sympathetic Dystrophy,” U.S. Patent Office, awarded 2001

  • iPosture

  • Electronic Mirror Imaging Rehabilitation Device for Neurological Deficits

Professional Memberships

 

  • American Medical Association

  • Tennessee Medical Association

  • Memphis Medical Society

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