Maryville is where Dr. Padda holds hospital privileges, which makes it a slightly different relationship from the rest of the Illinois side.
Hospital privileges, and what they actually mean for you
Dr. Padda is on staff at Anderson Hospital in Maryville with full privileges — covering pain management, addiction medicine, surgery and anesthesiology, rather than being siloed into one of them. He is a physician working inside your own region’s hospital system, not solely an out-of-state name on a referral.
In practice that matters for continuity. Where a headache problem sits alongside something requiring hospital-based care, the coordination is not starting from scratch across a state line.
Getting to the clinic itself
Outpatient headache treatment happens at the Woodson Road clinic in St. Louis, Missouri, next to Lambert Airport — I-255 to I-270 and west across the river. Ground-floor entrance, on-site parking and a full-size elevator; the details are on the contact page.
Where an anesthesiology background changes the work
Headache Express is run by an anesthesiologist rather than by a purely medical headache service, and the difference shows up in the procedural side. Every injection is placed under ultrasound or fluoroscopy rather than by surface landmarks, which is what makes a block that does not work into information rather than a possible miss — see ultrasound and fluoroscopic guidance.
It also shows in what is available for an attack that will not break: intravenous therapy in a chair rather than a bed, without sedation, with most people here between one and two hours.
Common questions
Do I need a referral from Anderson Hospital?
No. You can contact the clinic directly regardless of where you are usually seen — get in touch.
Are treatments given at Anderson Hospital?
Outpatient headache care is provided at the Woodson Road clinic in St. Louis. The hospital privileges matter for coordination and for care that genuinely needs a hospital setting.
What if my headache turns out not to be the main problem?
That happens, and it is a reason the assessment is broad rather than narrow. Where something else is driving it, we will say so and point you to the right place — see headache red flags for the signs that need urgent attention.