Why Choose Sonoma Neurology, Pain & Headache

We are a small practice that prides itself on providing excellent care with a personal touch.  We are completely independent from any medical corporation, which allows us to operate without big-business interference.

We use an interdisciplinary approach, focusing on each patient as a whole person, collaborating with your primary care/referring physician and a wide variety of specialists including:

  • Interventional Pain Management Specialists
  • Medical Specialists
  • Surgeons
  • Rehabilitation Specialists
    • Physical Therapy
    • Occupational Therapy
    • Speech and Language Therapy
  • Psychiatrists/​Psychologists/​Counselors
  • Neuropsychologists
    • Evaluation and Treatment
      • Brain Injury
      • Cognitive Decline
      • Factors Affecting Chronic Pain 
  • Integrative Medicine
    • Acupuncture
    • Chiropractic Medicine
    • Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Home Care/Hospice Services
We are pet friendly.  We always enjoy meeting well-socialized animal companions.  In the past we’ve had dogs, cats, a bird, and even a snake in our clinic! 
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Meet Our Team

Aimee C. Chagnon, MD

Aimee C. Chagnon, MD

Dr. Chagnon graduated summa cum laude from UC San Diego with a BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology and a minor in psychology. After attending medical school at UC San Francisco she did her neurology residency at Harvard.

Dr. Chagnon returned to UCSF for an NIH fellowship which combined clinical pain management with clinical research. She remained on faculty at the UCSF Pain Management Center, eventually becoming director of teaching and clinical research. Her research included uses of thalidomide as a cytokine modulator in various intractable neuropathic pain syndromes, the results being presented at national and international pain conferences. She also researched the use of levetiracetam in fibromyalgia and post-herpetic neuralgia. This resulted in her serving as a scientific advisor to UCB Pharma, among others.

In 2007 Dr. Chagnon established her own practice, Sonoma Pain Management, in Sonoma combining medical pain management and general adult neurology. In 2022 the practice moved to Petaluma.

In addition to managing the practice, Dr. Chagnon has been fortunate to do a number of medical mission trips. These experiences were life changing. Her first trip was to Haiti a few weeks after the devastating earthquake in 2010. Three more to Haiti soon followed. One of the most difficult and most rewarding parts of her career was the week she spent in charge of a tent hospital’s emergency “room” in Leogane, Haiti. Some of her work there earned her an invitation to Sean Penn’s annual fundraiser for his organization—principally the role she played getting an infant with hydrocephalus admitted to the US who had been dumped overnight in the weeds outside an orphanage near death. Today that child is an American citizen, and with the help and generosity of UCSF’s neurosurgery department he has stunned everyone with his progress. 

Dr. Chagnon in Haiti
Dr. Chagnon in Haiti

Following Haiti, Dr. Chagnon made several trips to various East African countries including two to Rwanda, where among other things she collaborated on a curriculum for a newly established neurosurgery residency. It remains a primary goal of hers to continue that work.

Dr. Chagnon in Rwanda
Dr. Chagnon in Rwanda

In her personal life Dr. Chagnon loves to spend time with her partner Jeremy, which always includes several (loud and spoiled) dogs rescued from various shelters, and she continues to work (slowly) toward her goal of earning a pilot’s license. 

Drs. Chagnon & Goodwin with their dogs in Mendocino

Jeremy Goodwin, MS, MD

Jeremy Goodwin, MS, MD
Dr. Goodwin was born and raised in London, where his father, a prominent comedy writer for the BBC wrote for such luminaries as Bob Hope, Jack Benny, and Peter Sellers. And later, due to his stepfather’s work, he enjoyed time with members of The Who, The Faces, and in Cat Stevens’ villa in Corfu, Greece. Recently, he revisited his youth as contributor and editor of an historical work, “The Who: Concert Memories from the Classic Years, 1964-1976”. Genzolini, E. Pubs: Schiffer Books (2022).

At 17, he moved to California, graduating from UC Davis with a BA in psychology and a MS in comparative (neuro) pathology. And after attending medical school at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, he completed his neurology training at Stanford followed by a combined adult & pediatric pain fellowship at Harvard. Initially mentored by internationally known professors Richard Payne and Robert W. Wilmott, he later worked in Boston under the renowned Professor Charles B. Berde. All three instilled in him the importance of fighting for the underrepresented and disadvantaged whether it be the result of poverty, racial prejudice, age, sex or gender. 

Jeremy Goodwin, MS, MD

After his fellowship, Dr. Goodwin was recruited as Chief, Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) where he held joint appointments in Neurology and Pediatrics. There, he formed the first collaborative University Pain Group from specialists throughout the institution previously in competition. While continuing to teach part-time, he left academia to set up his own pain clinics in in Ashland, OR and Mt. Shasta, CA. In 2022, he joined Sonoma Neurology, Pain & Headache to expand our range of services, and is looking forward to more public speaking and teaching workshops and expanding our adolescent care.

Dr. Goodwin has contributed to public policy providing testimony to the State of Oregon’s 69th Legislature Task Force on Pain & Symptom Management, and the Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid) Task Force on Treatment of Migraine & Non-Migraine Headaches. He has published peer-reviewed articles and textbook chapters, and has lectured across the US and Canada. He has been a peer reviewer for the Journal of Pediatrics, and Headache: The Journal of Head & Face Pain, serving too as neurology section editor for Pain Physician, the journal of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP). He has twice been on faculty for the National Pain Medicine Board Certification Review Course run by ASIPP.

His professional interests include medical ethics, racial & socioeconomic disparities in health care, artificial discs for spine surgery, PTSD, epigenetics and psychiatry as well as endocrine and sleep disorders as they pertain to pain & headache. He is experienced in neuromodulatory treatments for intractable, chronic pain such as spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulators, and intrathecal pain and anti-spasticity pumps.

Dr. Goodwin with his dogs

Outside of work he is an ardent Arsenal Football Club supporter watching English and European football weekly, and he’s an advocate for animal rights and wildlife conservation. He’s worked in an animal sanctuary and on a farm with rabbits, birds, reptiles, cows and goats coming very close to a career in veterinary medicine. He lives with his partner Aimee and their three rescued dogs Cooper, Blaze and Jewel in the wine country in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Dr. Goodwin with a goat