BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chairman of the Board and CEO
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, ASIPP, SIPMS
Co-Founder and Director, PMCOA
Clinical Professor
Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
University of Louisville, Kentucky
Professor of Anesthesiology-Research
Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine
LSU Health Sciences Center
2831 Lone Oak Road
Paducah, KY 42003
Phone: (270) 554-9412
Fax: (270) 554-5394
[email protected]
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT
Christopher Gharibo, MD
Director of Department of Anesthesiology, Peri-Operative Care & Pain Medicine, NYU Langone Health, NYU Langone Health
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain Medicine and Department of Orthopedic Surgery
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY
[email protected]
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Mahendra Sanapati, MD
Director, Pain Management
Centers of America
Evansville, IN
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
[email protected]
FIRST EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT
Annu Navani, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Boomerang Health Care
Walnut Creek, CA
Medical Director, Clinical Research and Applications, Le Reve Regenerative Wellness
Campbell, CA
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor,
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
[email protected]
SECRETARY
Sukdeb Datta, MD
Medical Director, Datta Endoscopic
Back Surgery and Pain Center
Professorial Lecturer,
Department of Anesthesiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY
[email protected]
TREASURER
Devi Nampiaparampil, MD
Medical Director,
Metropolis Pain Medicine
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine
Grossman NYU School of Medicine
New York, NY
[email protected]
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Salahadin (Sal) Abdi, MD, PhD
Tenured Professor and Chair,
Department of Pain Medicine
Helen Buchanan & Stanley Joseph Seeger
Endowed Research Professor
University of Texas,
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
[email protected]
PAST PRESIDENT
Sheri Albers, DO
Director of Research, Radiology
Research and Consultation
Sacramento, CA
[email protected]
Lifetime Directors
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
Co-Founder and Director,
Pain Management Centers of America
2831 Lone Oak Road
Paducah, KY 42003
[email protected]
Mahendra Sanapati, MD
Director,
Pain Management Centers of America
1101 Professional Blvd
Evansville, IN 47714
[email protected]
Vijay Singh, MD
Executive Committee Chair
Spine Pain Diagnostics Associates
1601 Roosevelt Road
Niagara, WI 54151
[email protected]
Amol Soin, MD
CEO, Ohio Society of
Interventional Pain Physicians
Medical Director, Ohio Pain Clinic
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery,
Wright State University
Dayton, OH
[email protected]
Academic Directors
Miles Day, MD
Medical Director
Grace Health System
Pain Management Center
Pain Medicine Fellowship Program Director and Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Management
Texas Tech
4515 Marsha Sharp Freeway
Lubbock, TX 79407
[email protected]
Joshua Hirsch, MD
Vice Chair of Procedural Services
Director of Interventional Neuroradiology
Chief of Neurointerventional Spine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
[email protected]
Shalini Shah, MD
Professor & Vice-Chair, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care
University of California Irvine Health
Orange, CA
[email protected]
Directors-At-Large
Allen Dennis, MD
Medical Director, Advanced Pain Care
Medical Director, Round Rock Surgery Center
Round Rock, TX
[email protected]
Andrew G. Kaufman, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
and Director of the Division
of Pain Management
Department of Anesthesiology
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Newark, NJ
[email protected]
Peter Staats, MD
Chief Medical Officer,
National Spine and Pain Centers
Rockville, MD
CoFounder and Chief Medical Officer, electroCore
Rockaway, NJ
Deborah Tracy, MD
Interventional Pain Management Physician
Institute of Interventional
Pain Management
HCA Oak Hill Hospital, Board Chair
Brooksville, FL
[email protected]
Young Physician Directors
Ken Ehrhardt, MD
Advanced Pain Institute
42131 Veterans Ave. #100
Hammond, LA 70403
[email protected]
Radomir Kosanovic, MD
Interventional Pain Management
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, FL
[email protected]
Kunj G. Patel, MD
Medical Director, Center for Regenerative
and Interventional Spine & Sports Pain
St. Louis, MO
[email protected]
Director Emeritus
Sudhir Diwan, MD
President, Advanced Spine on Park Avenue
Associate Clinical Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, NY
[email protected]
Gabor Racz, MD
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Lubbock, TX
Professor and Chairman Emeritus,
Dept. of Anesthesiology
Clinical Appointment, Preston Surgery Center
Frisco, TX
[email protected]
David Schultz, MD
Founder and CEO
Chief Medical Officer, Nura Precision Pain Management
Minneapolis, MN
[email protected]
Resident/Fellow Directors
Alexander Nurre, MD
Metairie, LA
[email protected]
Allan Parr, III, MD
Tulane Medical Center
1415 Tulane Ave
New Orleans, LA 70112
[email protected]
AMA HOD Delegates
Lee T. Snook, Jr., MD
AMA Delegate
Medical Director, Metropolitan Pain Management Consultants, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
[email protected]
Sunny Jha, MD
AMA Delegate (Alternate)
Principal, SJMD Solutions
Indian Harbour Beach, FL
[email protected]
AMA RFS Sectional Delegates
AMA RUC Representatives & AMA CPT Advisory Committee
Allen Dennis, MD
AMA RUC Member
Georgetown, TX
[email protected]
Michael Lubrano, MD, MPH
Alternate AMA RUC Member
Boston, MD
[email protected]
Mahendra Sanapati, MD
AMA CPT Advisory Committee
Evansville, IN
[email protected]
Sheri Albers, DO
AMA CPT Advisory Committee Alternate
Sacramento, CA
[email protected]
AMA-YPS Representatives
Alexander Nurre, MD – Chair
Metairie, LA
[email protected]
Michael Lubrano, MD, MPH
Boston, MA
[email protected]
Editor-in-Chief of Journals
Alan David Kaye, MD, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, Pain Physician Journal
Committee on Education and Research
Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, Chief Academic Officer, and Provost,
Pain Program Fellowship Director,
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Neurosciences,
Louisiana State University School of Medicine
2020 Gravier St.
New Orleans, LA 70112
[email protected]
[email protected]
Alaa Abd-Elsayed, MD, MPH
Editor-in-Chief,
Pain Medicine Case Reports
Medical Director of Pain Services,
UW-Madison
1102 S Park St.
Madison, WI 53715
[email protected]
American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP)
Salahadin (Sal) Abdi, MD, PhD
Executive Director
Tenured Professor and Chair,
Department of Pain Medicine
Helen Buchanan & Stanley Joseph Seeger
Endowed Research Professor
University of Texas,
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
[email protected]
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
Secretary
Co-Founder and Director,
Pain Management Centers of America
2831 Lone Oak Road
Paducah, KY 42003
[email protected]
Executive Committee
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
Chairman of the Board & CEO
Co-Founder and Director,
Pain Management Centers of America
2831 Lone Oak Road
Paducah, KY 42003
[email protected]
Salahadin (Sal) Abdi, MD, PhD
President
Executive Director
Tenured Professor and Chair,
Department of Pain Medicine
Helen Buchanan & Stanley Joseph Seeger
Endowed Research Professor
University of Texas,
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
[email protected]
Christopher Gharibo, MD
President-Elect
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Orthopedics Medical Director of
Pain Medicine
NYU Langone-Hospital for Joint Disease
NYU Center for Muskuloskeletal Care
333 East 38th St, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10012
[email protected]
Mahendra Sanapati, MD
First Executive Vice-President
Director,
Pain Management Centers of America
1101 Professional Blvd
Evansville, IN 47714
[email protected]
Annu Navani, MD
Second Executive Vice-President
Chief Medical Officer,
Boomerang Health Care
Walnut Creek, CA
Medical Director, Clinical Research and Applications, Le Reve Regenerative Wellness
Campbell, CA
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor,
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
[email protected]
Amol Soin, MD
CEO, Ohio Society of
Interventional Pain Physicians
Medical Director, Ohio Pain Clinic
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, Wright State University
Dayton, OH
[email protected]
Joshua Hirsch, MD
Academic Director
Vice Chief of Interventional Care
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Affiliate Senior Research Fellow
Neiman Health Care Policy Institute
55 Blossom St. Gray 241B
Boston, MA 02114
[email protected]
Past Presidents
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
1999-2005
David S. Kloth, MD
2005
Vijay Singh, MD
2006
Andrea Trescot, MD
2007
Ramsin Benjamin, MD
2008
David M. Schultz, MD
2009
Allan T. Parr II, MD
2010
Standiford Helm II, MD
2011
Frank J. Falco, MD
2012
Hans C. Hansen, MD
2013
Ramsin Benyamin, MD
2014
Peter Staats, MD
2015
Aaron Calodney, MD
2016
Francis Reigler, MD
2017
Hans C. Hansen, MD
2018
Sudhir Diwan, MD
2019
Harold Cordner, MD
2020
Amol Soin, MD
2021
Sheri Albers, DO
2022
