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
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
1515 Holcombe Boulevard
Houston, TX 77030
[email protected]
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Christopher Gharibo, MD
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]
FIRST EXECUTIVE
VICE-PRESIDENT
Mahendra Sanapati, MD
Co-Director,
Pain Management Centers of America
1101 Professional Blvd
Evansville, IN 47714
[email protected]
SECOND EXECUTIVE
VICE-PRESIDENT
Annu Navani, MD
Medical Director, Comprehensive
Spine & Sports Center
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
3425 S. Bascom, Ste 200
Campbell, CA 95008
[email protected]
SECRETARY
Sukdeb Datta, MD
Medical Director
Professorial Lecturer
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
5 E 98th St.
New York, NY 10029
[email protected]
TREASURER
Devi Nampiaparampil, MD
Assistant Professor
Anesthesiology and Rehabilitation
NYU School of Medicine
315 West 33rd Street #28G
New York, NY 10001
[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
Co-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
Ohio Pain Clinic
8934 Kingsridge Drive, Suite 101
Centerville, OH 45458
[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 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]
Shalini Shah, MD
Vice Chair, Anesthesiology
School of Medicine
Director
School of Medicine
Professor, Anesthesiology
School of Medicine
UCI Health
101 The City Drive South
Orange, CA 92868
[email protected]
Directors-At-Large
Allen Dennis, MD
Advanced Pain Care
3316 Williams Dr Suite #150
Georgetown, TX 78628
[email protected]
Andrew G. Kaufman, MD
Rutgers NJMS
University Hospital
90 Bergen Street,
Suite 3400
Newark, NJ 07901
[email protected]
Peter Staats, MD
Premier Pain Centers, LLC
167 Avenue at the Common, Suite 4
Shrewsbury, NY 07702
Deborah Tracy, MD
Institute of Interventional Pain Management
11319 Cortez Blvd.
Brooksville, FL 34613
[email protected]
Young Physician Directors
Ken Ehrhardt, MD
Advanced Pain Institute
42131 Veterans Ave. #100
Hammond, LA 70403
[email protected]
Radomir Kosanovic, MD
Pain Management Centers of America
2831 Lone Oak Road
Paducah, KY 42003
[email protected]
Kunj G. Patel, MD
Founder, SafeBeat Rx
Saint Louis, MO
[email protected]
Director Emeritus
Sudhir Diwan, MD
President, Park Avenue Spine and Pain
115 East 57th St., Suite 610
New York, NY 10022
Tel:646-434-0551
[email protected]
Gabor Racz, MD
Co-Director Pain Center
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
3601 4th Street, MS 8182
Lubbock, TX 79430
[email protected]
David Schultz, MD
Founder and CEO
Nura Pain Clinics
2104 Northdale Boulevard NW
Suite 220
Minneapolis, MN 55433
[email protected]
Resident/Fellow Directors
AMA HOD Delegates
Lee T. Snook, Jr., MD
Metropolitan Pain Management Consultants, Inc.
2288 Auburn Blvd # 106
Sacramento, CA 95821
[email protected]
Sunny Jha, MD
AMA Delegate
AMA CPT Advisory Committee
Principal, SJMD Solutions
2095 Highway A1A
Indian Harbour Beach
FL 32937
[email protected]
Michael Lubrano, MD, MPH
AMA Delegate (Alternate)
South Shore Hospital
55 Fogg Road
South Weymouth, MA 02190
[email protected]
Kunj G. Patel, MD
AMA Delegate (2nd Alternate)
Founder, SafeBeat Rx
Saint Louis, MO
[email protected]
AMA RFS Sectional Delegates

Allan Parr, III, MD
Delegate
Tulane Medical Center
1415 Tulane Ave
New Orleans, LA 70112
[email protected]
Alexander Nurre, MD
Alternate
Ochsner Health
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans, LA 70121
[email protected]
AMA RUC Representatives & AMA CPT Advisory Committee
Allen Dennis, MD
AMA RUC Member
Advanced Pain Care
3316 Williams Dr Suite #150
Georgetown, TX 78628
[email protected]
Michael Lubrano, MD, MPH
Alternate AMA RUC Member
South Shore Hospital
55 Fogg Road
South Weymouth, MA 02190
[email protected]
Mahendra Sanapati, MD
Co-Director, AMA CPT Advisory Committee
Pain Management Centers of America
1101 Professional Blvd
Evansville, IN 47714
[email protected]
Sunny Jha, MD
Co-Director, AMA CPT Advisory Committee
Principal, SJMD Solutions
2095 Highway A1A
Indian Harbour Beach FL 32937
[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)
Mark V. Boswell, MD, PhD
Executive Director
Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology
Program Director, Pain Fellowship,
Professor of Anesthesiology
The University of Toledo
2801 W. Bancroft
Toledo, OH 43606
[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
Tenured Professor and Chair
Department of Pain Medicine
Helen Buchanan & Stanley Joseph Seeger Endowed Research Professor
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Boulevard
Houston, TX 77030
[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
Co-Director,
Pain Management Centers of America
1101 Professional Blvd
Evansville, IN 47714
[email protected]
Annu Navani, MD
Second Executive Vice-President
Medical Director, Comprehensive
Spine & Sports Center
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor,
Stanford University School of Medicine
3425 S. Bascom, Ste 200
Campbell, CA 95008
[email protected]
Amol Soin, MD
Lifetime Director
Ohio Pain Clinic
8934 Kingsridge Drive, Suite 101
Centerville, OH 45458
[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