Meet Dr. Cindy Tiu
Dr. Cindy Tiu is a double board-certified physician in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine, dedicated to helping patients restore function, reduce pain, and improve quality of life through thoughtful, personalized care.
Originally born in North Carolina and raised in Texas, Dr. Tiu completed her undergraduate education at The University of Texas at Dallas before earning her medical degree from the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Worth. She then completed her residency training in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at UT Southwestern Medical Center, followed by fellowship training in Interventional Pain Medicine at Case Western Reserve University / University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center—an exceptional program that provided advanced training across the full spectrum of interventional pain care.
After fellowship and gaining private practice experience, Dr. Tiu knew she wanted to return to Dallas—the place that felt most like home—to build something different.
She founded Artisan Interventional Pain with a simple belief: patients deserve thoughtful care, honest guidance, and real options.
Too often, pain medicine becomes rushed, transactional, and factory-like. Patients are moved quickly through visits, passed between providers, and offered limited solutions. Dr. Tiu believes pain care should be the opposite—thoughtful, individualized, and built around what truly helps the patient long term.
Her approach focuses on identifying the true source of pain, not simply treating symptoms. She offers the full spectrum of interventional pain treatments—from conservative therapies to advanced minimally invasive procedures—always with the goal of helping patients become more functional, more independent, and better able to return to the life they want to live.
She believes in using the right treatment—not more treatment.
Why I Started Artisan
“During my years in training and private practice, I saw how often pain medicine became rushed, impersonal, and driven by volume instead of patients.
Too many people were being moved quickly through visits, passed between providers, and left feeling unheard. Treatment plans were often shaped more by systems and schedules than by what was actually best for the patient.
I knew I wanted to build something different.
Artisan Interventional Pain was created to bring pain care back to what it should be—thoughtful, precise, and deeply personal.
I wanted a practice where patients work directly with their physician, where treatment decisions are made based on what truly helps long term, and where minimally invasive options are prioritized whenever possible.
My goal is simple: honest guidance, precise treatment, and real relief.
I believe patients deserve time. They deserve options. And they deserve a physician who listens first.
That is why I built Artisan.”
Outside of Medicine
Outside of medicine, Dr. Tiu is a wife, a proud twin sister, and the middle child of three siblings.
She played college tennis and continues to have a strong passion for fitness, movement, and performance. She enjoys HIIT workouts, Hyrox training, weightlifting, running, tennis, Pilates, and staying active whenever possible.
She also loves traveling, hiking with her husband, and believes life should always include balance—which, for her, means a warm chocolate chip cookie and ice cream.
At Artisan Interventional Pain, she brings the same philosophy to medicine that she does to life: discipline, precision, and genuine care.