EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Howard S. Smith, MD
Academic Director of Pain Management
Professor of Anesthesiology
Albany Medical College
Albany, NY
editor@painphysicianjournal.com

MANAGING EDITOR
Bert Fellows, MA
Director Emeritus
Psychological Services
Pain Management Center of Paducah
81 Lakeview Drive
Paducah, KY

EDITORIAL COORDINATOR
Holly C. Long
ASIPP
81 Lakeview Drive
Paducah, KY
hlong@asipp.org

EDITORS
Salahadin Abdi, MD, PhD
University of Miami
LM Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL

Mark V. Boswell, MD, PhD
Messer Racz Pain Center
Department of Anesthesiology
Texas Tech Univ. Health Sciences Center
Lubbock, TX

Richard Derby, MD
Spinal Diagnostics & Treatment Center
Daly City, CA

James Giordano, PhD
Center for Clinical Bioethics
Georgetown Univ. Medical Center
Washington, DC
Samueli Institute
Alexandria, VA

Joshua A. Hirsch, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Tim J. Lamer, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Ramsin M. Benyamin, MD
Millennium Pain Center
Bloomington, IL
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, IL

Kenneth P. Botwin, MD
Florida Spine Institute
Clearwater, FL

Allen W. Burton, MD
MD Anderson Cancer Center
University of Texas
Houston, TX

Asokumar Buvanendran, MD
Rusk University Medical Center
Chicago, IL

Steven P. Cohen, MD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, DC

Sukdeb Datta, MD
Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center
Nashville, TN

Elmer E. Dunbar, MD
Pain Control Network PSC
Louisville, KY

Clifford R. Everett, MD
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY

Gilbert J. Fanciullo, MD
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Dartmouth Medical School
Lebanon, NH

Anthony H. Guarino, MD
Pain Management Center
Washington Univ. School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Salim Hayek
University Hospitals of Cleveland
Cleveland, OH

James E. Heavner, DVM, PhD
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Lubbock, TX

John D. Loeser, MD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Rafael V. Miguel, MD
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Vikram Patel, MD
Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood, IL

Arra Suresh Reddy, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA

Xiulu Ruan, MD
Univ. of South Alabama School of Medicine
Physicians’ Pain Specialists of Alabama
Mobile, AL

Nalini Sehgal, MD
Interventional Pain Program
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, WI

Rinoo V. Shah, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
Guthrie Clinic
Sayre, PA

Milan P. Stojanovic, MD
Harvard Medical School
MGH Pain Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Andrea M. Trescot, MD
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

EDITORIAL BOARD
George J. Arcos, DO
Pain Institute of North Florida
Tallahassee, FL

Joseph Atallah, MD
Pain Management Section
University of Toledo Medical Center
Toledo, Ohio

Carl C. Balog, MD
Providence Portland Medical Center
Portland, OR

Sarjoo “Sam” Bhagia, MD
OrthoCarolina Spine Center
Charlotte, NC

Peter A. Brawer, PhD
Brown Medical School
Providence, RI

Edward Carden, MD
Univ. of Southern California
Keck School of Medicine
S. Calif. Academic Pain Mgmt.
Marina Del Rey, CA

Pradeep Chopra, MD
Brown Medical School
Pawtucket, RI

Paul J. Christo, MD
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Roger S. Cicala, MD
UT College of Medicine
Semmes-Murphy Neurologic & Spine Institute
Memphis, TN

Barry E. Cole, MD
The Miriam Hospital
American Society of Pain Educators
Montclair, NJ

Thomas Cole, PhD
Univ. of Texas Health Sciences Center
Houston, TX

James D. Colson, MD
Pain Medicine Service
West Virginia University Hospitals
Morgantown, WV

C. Ann Conn, MD
Covington, LA

Harold Cordner, MD
Florida Pain Management Assoc.
Sebastian, FL

Jonathan Daitch, MD
Advanced Pain Management & Spine Specialists
Fort Myers, FL

Miles Day, MD
University of Texas-Southwestern
Dallas, TX

Timothy R. Deer, MD
The Center for Pain Relief
Charleston, WV

Michael A. Erdek, MD
Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Serdar Erdine, MD
Istanbul University
Istanbul, Turkey

Ike Eriator, MD
Jackson State University
Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS

Claudio A. Feler, MD
University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences
Semmes-Murphey
Neurologic & Spine Institute
Memphis, TN

Philip M. Finch, MD
Perth Pain Management Centre
South Perth, Australia

Michael E. Frey, MD
Virginia Commonwealth University
Advanced Pain Management and Spine Specialists
Fort Myers, FL

Bassem Georgy, MD
Valley Radiology Consultants
University of California San Diego
San Diego, CA

Christopher Gharibo, MD
New York Univ. Hospitals Center
New York, NY

Michael Gofeld, MD
Sunnybrook Health Services Centre
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

Hans C. Hansen, MD
The Pain Relief Centers
Conover, NC

Jeffrey W. Janata, PhD
University Hospitals of Cleveland
Case School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH

Joseph F. Jasper, MD
Advanced Pain Medicine Physicians
Tacoma, WA

Benjamin W. Johnson Jr., MD
Neurological Surgeons, PC
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN

Arthur E. Jordan, MD
Coastal Interventional Pain Associates
Myrtle Beach, SC

Alan D. Kaye, MD, PhD
LSU Health Science Center
New Orleans, LA

Ira Kornbluth, MD
Spine Medicine and Rehab Therapies
Westminster, MD

Dhanalakshmi Koyyalagunta, MD
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Jeffery M. Kramer, PhD
Millennium Pain Center
Bloomington, IL

Nancy L.R. Layton, MD
Interventional Spine Pain Consultants
Melbourne, FL

Felix Linetsky, MD
Orthopaedic Medicine Pain Treatment
Palm Harbor, FL

Marion O. Lee Jr. MD
Pain Center at Affinity Health Group
Tifton, GA

Leland Lou, MD
University of Texas-Southwestern
Dallas, TX

Osama Malak, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Gerard A. Malanga, MD
Overlook Hospital
Summit, NJ

Alexander Mauskop, MD
Beth Israel Hospital North
New York Headache Center
New York, NY

Patrick McGowan, MD
Pain Clinic, Barnet Hospital
London, England

Mahesh Mehta, MD
Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS

Dermot More-O’Ferrall, MD
Advanced Pain Management
Cudahy, WI

Phillip Cuong Phan, MD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, TX

Kent B. Remley, MD
Center for Diagnostic Imaging
Indianapolis, IN

Niel Rosen, JD, MA
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC

Steven M. Rosen, MD
Fox Chase Pain Management Associates
Jenkintown, PA

Stephen Rothman, MD
Keck USC School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

Anthony Sabatino, MD
Interventional Pain Care Associates
Carmel, IN

Clifton W. Shepherd, MD
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Shreveport, LA

Thomas T. Simopoulos, MD
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA

Vijay Singh, MD
Pain Diagnostics Associates
Niagara, WI

Menno E. Sluijter, MD, PhD
The Swiss Paraplegic Center
Nottwil, Switzerland

Daneshvari R. Solanki, MD
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX

Douglas Spiel, MD
Edison, NJ

Santhosh A. Thomas, DO, MBA
Westlake Spine Center
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Westlake, OH

James C. Thompson, EdD
Pain Control Network
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY

Ricardo Vallejo, MD, PhD
Illinois State University
Millennium Pain Center
Bloomington, IL

Jan Van Zundert, MD, PhD
Multidisciplinary Pain Unit
Genk, Belgium

Romanth Waghmarae, MD
Niagara Falls Medical Center
Buffalo, NY

Arthur S. Watanabe, MD
Spinal Diagnostics
Liberty Lake, WA

Robert E. Windsor, MD
Emory University
Marietta, GA

Naveed Yousuf, MD
Bloomington Radiology SC
Normal, IL