Board & Organizers
Conference Organizers
Program Director: Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
Scientific Program Committee
Fabricio Dias Assis, MD, FIPP
Miles Day, MD, FIPP
Javier De Andres Ares, MD, FIPP
Sudhir Diwan, MD, FIPP
Andre Mansano, MD, FIPP, CIPS
Philip Peng, MD, FIPP
Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP, CIPS
Milan Stojanovic, MD, FIPP
Kris C. P. Vissers, MD, FIPP
Local Arrangement Committee
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP
Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP, CIPS
Lorand Eross, MD, PhD, FIPP
Laboratory Committee
Miles Day, MD, FIPP
Vikram B. Patel, MD, FIPP
Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP, CIPS
WIP Executive Board
Peter S. Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP, President – USA
Dominic Hegarty, MD, FIPP, President Elect – Ireland
Miles Day, MD, FIPP, Honorary Treasurer – USA
Mert Akbas, MD, FIPP, Honorary Secretariat – Turkey
Adnan Al-Kaisy, MD, FIPP, Chair, Board of Sections – UK
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP, Founder and Past President – Turkey
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP, Founder and Past President – USA
Ricardo Ruiz-López, MD, FIPP, Founder and Past President – Spain
WIP Special Committee Chairs to EXB
Milan P. Stojanovic, MD, FIPP, Chair, Education Committee – USA
Kris C. P. Vissers, MD, PhD, FIPP, Chair, Board of Examination – The Netherlands
Christopher Gilligan, MD, MBA, FIPP, Editor-In-Chief (Incoming), Pain Practice (USA
WIP Section Chairs
Immanuel Thobejane, MD, FIPP – Africa
Peter G. Courtney, MBBS, FIPP – Australia
Martine Puylaert, MD, FIPP – Benelux
Lucian Cesar Hot Silva, MD, FIPP, CIPS – Brazil
Jordi Perez-Martinez, MD, FIPP – Canada
Ludger Gerdesmeyer, MD, FIPP – Central-Eastern Europe
Adriana Cadavid, MD, FIPP – Colombia
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP – Hungary
Javier de Andres Ares, MD, FIPP – Iberian
Karthic Babu Natarajan,MD, DNB, FIPP – India
Arman Taheri, MD, FIPP – Iran
Tadhg Lynch, MD, FIPP – Ireland
Meir Bennun, MD, FIPP – Israel
Pasquale De Negri, MD, FIPP – Italy
Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD, FIPP – South Korea
Ricardo Plancarte Sanchez, MD, FIPP – Latin America
Muralitharan Perumal, MD, FIPP – Malaysia
Irene K. Kouroukli, MD, PhD, FIPP – Mediterranean
Amany Ayad Ezzat, MD, FIPP – Middle East
José R. Rodríguez Hernández, MD, FIPP – Puerto Rico
Kok-Yuen Ho, MD, FIPP – SE Asia
Lucian M. Macrea, MD, FIPP – Switzerland
Yu Chuan Tsai, MD, FIPP – Taiwan
Ibrahim Asik, MD, FIPP – Turkey
Arun Bhaskar, MBBS, FRCA, FFPMRCA, FFICM, FIPP – UK
Ramsin Benyamin, MD, FIPP – USA
Board of Examination
Chair: Kris C. P. Vissers, MD, PhD, FIPP
Liaison to WIP: Ricardo Ruiz Lopez, MD, FIPP
Registrar: Monique Steegers, MD, PhD, FIPP
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