Lifestream Health Center has been serving the Bowie/Baltimore-Washington D.C. Metropolitan area since 2000, when the practice was established by Dr. Robert Lyles. We have assembled an amazing team of highly trained pain management specialists to help our patients to solve their acute and chronic pain problems. Our center offers comprehensive pain management for acute and chronic pain problems.At our pain management clinic in Bowie, we promote multidimensional treatment plans that will best serve our patients. We seek to incorporate evidence-based and outcome-oriented research in all of our treatment decisions, bringing forth the latest in technology, techniques, treatments, and procedures to best help our patients to recover. We recognize the value of personalized treatment plans, as all patients are not the same.
Why us?
Many pain management patients have been left feeling hopeless and alone because some providers have just stopped providing them services because of the opioid epidemic. At Lifestream Health Center, we have numerous procedures and treatments available to our pain specialists that can help with any acute or chronic pain management issue.
Our Specialists
Dr. Sarah Merritt
Dr. Sarah Merritt is originally from Huntsville, Alabama. She attended Birmingham-Southern College and medical school at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. After a residency in anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, she elected to pursue extra fellowship training in pain management at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute. Her training included the full spectrum of pain management techniques, including interventional pain blocks and injections, as well as pain medication management. Dr. Merritt is ABMS Board-Certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Currently, Dr. Merritt is active as a volunteer in the medical community in addition to her medical practice. She was nominated by her peers and appointed by the state as a member of the Technical Access Committee for the Maryland State Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP). She is also the Co-Chairperson of the Legislative Council for MedChi, the Maryland state medical society.
In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, bicycling, running, and yoga.
Mr. Sukhbir (Singh) Bhurji
Mr. Sukhbir (Singh) Bhurji is a certified physician assistant and holds an active Maryland PA license and DEA license. He graduated from the Physician Assistant Program at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA in 2013.
Singh has joined the Lifestream team in Bowie after practicing outpatient Pain Management in Southern Maryland for 4 years treating a variety of pain patients. He also practices Addiction Medicine with the goal of helping as many people as possible who are struggling with addiction.
He applies a multidisciplinary philosophy to pain management and has an impeccable record for quality patient care. He takes a highly personalized approach to treat patients. He emphasizes patient education in the treatment process and finds great reward in building strong relationships with his patients.
He enjoys spending time with family and has a special interest in Sikh theology and history.
Janet Beebe
I am a native of the Pacific Northwest although I have now been on the east coast for nearly 30 years. I have been a nurse for close to 40 years, the last 21 spent in primary care as an adult NP. I have always had an interest in behavioral health and my NP program at the University of Maryland combined both the adult NP curriculum as well as adult mental health. I have practiced what I affectionately refer to as “primary care psychiatry” during my time in primary care. I have been a member of ASAM for several years and have always understood the importance of addressing both substance abuse and mental health issues. I believe that substance abuse disorders are chronic brain diseases but treatable like other chronic illnesses. Most recently I completed my Doctor of Nursing Practice degree at Drexel University. My capstone project was using an educational intervention for a group of men in a sober living house to see if an educational video regarding medication assisted treatment would increase the use of MAT in this population. The past two years I have focused on providing high quality substance abuse and mental health treatment. I am excited to be back at as a team member at Lifestream Health Center.
“God draws straight with crooked lines” Champ C.
Shoshana Katz, PA-C
Shoshana Katz, PA-C joined Lifestream Health Center in the Fall of 2019. She started her career as a PA in 2013 working in interventional pain management in DC and VA. Shoshana enjoys building relationships with patients and determining individual treatment plans that are specific to each patient and incorporate multiple treatment modalities.
She has a special interest in performing ultrasound guided procedures including trigger point injections, joint injections, and botox for migraines. Shoshana grew up in Virginia Beach, VA and moved to Florida in highschool where she then stayed to earn her Bachelors of Science degree from The University of Florida in 2009 and her Masters of Medical Science degree in PA Studies from Nova Southeastern University in 2012.
Shoshana has always been drawn to helping people and knew from a very young age that she wanted to work in healthcare. She comes from a long family tradition of working in medicine and is proud to carry on this family legacy by helping patients with chronic and acute pain. Shoshana has been an active member of District of Columbia Academy of Physician Assistants for several years and currently serves as the President of the Board of Directors. In her free time, Shoshana loves to travel (especially to Spanish-speaking destinations so she can practice her Spanish language skills), paint, and read historical fiction novels.
Megan Denarah Ferron
Megan Denarah Ferron is a Nationally Certified Physician Assistant with a Maryland PA and DEA license. She completed her Masters of Health Science in Physician Assistant Studies at George Washington University in 2019.
Natural healing and integrative medicine have always been important to Denarah. She connects with patients holistically and empowers them with information to help make informed decisions together. Before becoming a PA-C, she was a Licensed Massage Therapist with a private practice specializing in pain reduction techniques like trigger point therapy, active myofascial release, lymphatic drainage, Quantum Touch, and Reiki. Since joining Lifestream, she has become certified in Suboxone treatment, and the NADA protocol, a technique which uses auricular acupuncture points to help patients with addiction, stress reduction, and sleep. She is currently pursuing certification in N.E.T. to help patients illuminate and heal the psychosocial sources that cause stress and physical pain in the body. She enjoys time with her family and their pitbull, meditation, yoga, gardening, and harvesting local plants for their health benefits.