Faculty

Mert Akbas,  MD, is an associative professor of Anesthesiologist and Pain management physician at Akdeniz University, School of Medicine in Turkey. He joined the Akdeniz University faculty in 1993. He is the associative proffesor and clinical instructor at division of Algology.
He earned his medical degree at Akdeniz University, School of Medicine in 1999. He completed his anesthesia residency in Akdeniz University, Antalya, and started his pain management fellowship program first as an observer doctor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Pain Management Clinic, Lubbock/TX-USA and later on as an clinical doctor in Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine, Division of Algology, Istanbul/TURKEY between the years 2004 and 2006.
He is Algology Board certified and pain specialist in Turkey is since 2007, and FIPP since 2006.
His areas of clinical interest are neuromodulation and decompressive neuroplasty.
Dr. Akbas is the current chair of WIP Turkish Section and a member of WIP, INS and Turkish Society of Algology.

Dr Al-Kaisy is currently Clinical Lead of the Pain Management and Neuromodulation Centre at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS trust. He trained in Chronic Pain Medicine at The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool. He has a fellowship in Chronic Pain Management at University of Toronto Hospital, Canada. Dr Al-Kaisy has an international reputation as a leading expert in Pain Management and has extensive experience in working toward the advancement of electrical neuromodulation techniques within this specialty. Dr Al-Kaisy led the first multicenter and multinational study on the safety and efficacy of 10kHz SCS in the management of Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (FBSS). He has subsequently clinically pioneered the use of this novel therapy in the management of different chronic pain conditions including the feasibility study on chronic back patients without prior surgery. He has successfully designed groundbreaking research including a randomized double blind placebo control study examining different frequency in the management of FBSS. He is the innovator of a number techniques including transgrade dorsal root ganglion stimulation using monopolar electrical stimulation. Dr Al-Kaisy continues to teach and lecture on essential and pioneering topics in pain management in the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia. He is the chair of the biannual London Spine Pain Symposium at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital.

Dr. Javier De Andrés Ares is a board certified Anesthesiologist since 1997. He graduated from Universidad Complutense-Madrid in June 1990, completed his anesthesiology residency at Complejo Hospitalario de Toledo 1996 and is Fellow in Interventional Pain Practice from the World Institute of Pain 2008. He obtained Hassenbusch Award in 2008 from the World Institute of Pain. He currently is the Head of Pain Unit at Hospital Universitario La Paz-Madrid, and is Director at “Clínica Analgesia y Manejo del Dolor -Toledo” and co-director at “Clínica del Dolor Hospital Santa Elena-Madrid”. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Universidad Miguel de Cervantes and collaborates with Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. He is Head of Spanish Pain Radiofrequency Interest Group, from the Spanish Pain Society (IASP). He is an active member of several societies, including the World Institute of Pain, Spine Intervention Society, and Spanish Pain Society.
He has more than 20 years’ experience as a pain clinic director in public and private practice and speaks nationally and internationally on topics of pain medicine and interventional pain management. He has special interest in Spinal and Facial Pain.
Dr. De Andrés Ares is the current Chair of WIP Iberian Section.

Fabricio Assis, MD is one of the founders of the Brazilian Society of interventional Pain Physicians (SOBRAMID) and its first president 2013-2015. Dr. Assis is involved in lots of educational projects and had trained physicians in interventional pain all over the world in he last 10 years. Nine years ago, he started a very successful training program in Interventional Pain in Brazil, where physicians from all over the country and neighbor ones from Latin America come once a month during a year. This project was replicated in Budapest in 2017 named as Pain School International. Dr. Assis is also one of the directors of the WIP Workshop in Miami.
Dr. Assis became a certified pain specialist at the Universidad de Barcelona, Spain, in 1998. Since that he began his work in interventional pain management and focused his work mainly on chronic pain patients, performing all kinds of procedures. He had participated in courses and traineeships in Hungary, England, Turkey, the Netherlands, the US, and several other countries. In 2007 he became a WIP-certified Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP). Today Dr. Assis works as director at Singular – Pain Management Center, an EPP (Excellence in Pain Practice) Center in Campinas, SP, and is a member of the pain team at the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital in São Paulo.

Douglas P. Beall, MD, attended medical school at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, and completed his residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Following residency, he was Chief of Interventional Services at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas. He then completed a fellowship in Musculoskeletal Radiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he was trained in interventional spine techniques before returning to the US Air Force as Division Chief of Musculoskeletal Radiology. Following the service in the US Air Force Dr. Beall was chief of Musculoskeletal Radiology and Fellowship Director at the Univiersity of Oklahoma prior to entering private practice as the Chief of Services. 41 In addition to his expertise in musculoskeletal imaging and interventional spine care, Dr. Beall is actively involved in teaching and research. He is board-certified in Diagnostic Radiology, has an added fellowship in Musculoskeletal Radiology, is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Pain Management and is a Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice and board certified by the World Institute of Pain. He is currently in private practice focused on interventional pain management and orthopedic imaging. Dr. Beall has published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored four textbooks and 11 textbook chapters, given more than 500 invited lectures and scientific presentations and has participated in 37 clinical research trials. He is currently the Chief of Radiology Services for Clinical Radiology of Oklahoma as well as the Division Head of Interventional Spine Care and Director of Pain Management Fellowship Programs at the Spine Fracture Institute and Summit Medical Center.

Dr. Bhayani completed his training in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine in the UK.

He completed his FRCA & FFPMRCA examination was awarded these fellowship by the Royal College of Anaesthetist, United Kingdom.

He went on to completed his pain fellowship at the University of Toronto after completing his advanced pain training from Nottingham in the UK. 

He is certified interventional pain Sonologist & Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice. He completed both these World Institute of Pain Examinations and was awarded top positions in the CIPS examination leading him to the examiner status for these exams.

As a clinician  & educator, he has taught multiple national, international courses on interventional pain medicine using fluoroscopy and ultrasound guidance. 

He is clinical lead for E pain, Faculty of Pain Medicine, Royal College of Anaesthetists, UK

Pain Medicine Education is his passion. He is a local pain medicine education supervisor appointed by the Royal College.

He is a co-founder and Program Director of Leicester Pain Education & Gulf Pain School. 

He is an adjunct associate clinical professor for Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine and Program director for certification in pain management at the Gulf Medical University, Ajman, UAE. 

He has authored and co-authored book chapters and research papers. 

During Covid 19 Pandemic he has managed to run multiple education events on the virtual platform including state-of-the-art virtual courses. 

His special area of interest includes simulation in medical education, major joint Denervation, peripheral Neuromodulation, regenerative therapies, cryotherapy, and innovations in the field of education and chronic pain. 

Hemmo Alexander Bosscher was born January 25th 1959 in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. He completed his medical school at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam obtaining his medical degree in 1988. He did his residency in Anesthesiology at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester and pursued a career in anesthesiology in the US. However, interest in the treatment of chronic pain changed his career path. After completing a pain management fellowship at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, he started a pain management practice in Lubbock but kept a clinical appointment at Texas Tech University as adjunct professor at the department of Anesthesiology and the department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry. In 2017, Dr. Bosscher received his PhD degree under Professor Dr. Kris Vissers at the Radboud University in the Netherlands. Dr. Bosscher’s ongoing research involves the endoscopic evaluation and treatment of the spine in patients with low back pain. With the late Dr. James E. Heavner, DVM, FIPP, he published a series of papers and has given a number of presentations on the topic. He is currently a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, World Institute of Pain, and American Association of Anatomists.

Dr. Kenneth Chapman is the director of pain management at Staten Island University Hospital, part of the Northwell Health System, and is an assistant clinical professor at NYU Langone Medical Center. He completed his Interventional Pain Management Fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, and his Anesthesiology residency at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, New York.
Dr. Chapman directs the fellowship program at the Spine and Pain Institute of NY and is actively involved in teaching and lecturing both nationally and internationally. Dr. Chapman also frequently serves as a pain management Board Examiner for certification on the Fellowship of Interventional Pain Practice Pain Boards. He has won numerous peer validated awards including ‘America’s Best Anesthesiologists’ and ‘Most Compassionate Doctors,’ and was one of the youngest physicians to ever be named as both a NY Times ‘Super Doctor’ and NY Magazine ‘Top Doctor’ when he first received the recognition in 2014. While at the Cleveland Clinic Dr. Chapman also received the “Ethlene R. Smith’s Most Outstanding Fellow” award. He is Vice President of the NYS Interventional Pain Society and on the advisory board to the NYS Worker’s Compensation Board responsible for writing the NYS Worker’s Compensation Guidelines, which all injured workers in the state are treated by.
Dr. Chapman’s interests include translational research pertaining to spinal cord stimulation and dorsal root ganglion stimulation mechanism of action, and studies involving the use of DRG-S to treat conditions traditionally considered to be mechanical pain syndromes.

Aaron Kenneth Calodney, MD is Past President of the Texas Pain Society and Past President of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP). He has served on the board of the International Spine Intervention Society for many years and was Director of Education. Dr. Calodney is board certified in Anesthesiology and carries subspecialty certification in Pain Management through the American Board of Anesthesiology. Dr. Calodney earned his medical degree from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and completed a family medicine internship at St Joseph’s Hospital in Syracuse, New York. His residency in anesthesiology and subsequent interventional pain management fellowship was completed at the University of Texas Health Science Center at 31 Houston. He subsequently completed a fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at the Denver Children’s Hospital. With particular interest in Spine and special interests including Neuromodulation and Intrathecal Drug Delivery, Biological treatment of the painful degenerative disc, Peripheral nerve injury, and Radiofrequency ablation, Dr. Calodney has presented and published many articles and textbook chapters. He is actively involved in clinical research and has delivered over 400 invited lectures in the US and abroad. Dr. Calodney is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, and many other professional societies. He is an author of the first Evidenced Based Treatment Guidelines in Interventional Pain and Evidenced Based Guidelines for the Use of Opioids published in the Pain Physician journal and on the National Guideline Clearinghouse. Dr. Calodney previously was appointed by the governor of Texas to serve on the Advisory Committee on the Regulation of Controlled Substances Act.

Dr. Chang Chien is an interventional physiatrist in Southern California.  He is the Director of Pain Medicine at Ventura County Medical Center as well as the

Founder of the GCC Institute where he practices Regenerative Medicine for musculoskeletal medicine and medical aesthetics.  Dr. Chang Chien has authored over 100 manuscripts on the diagnosis and treatment of pain and regenerative medicine.

Miles R. Day, MD (Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock). Dr. Day is the medical director of The Pain Center at Grace Clinic, pain fellowship program director at Texas Tech, and the Traweek-Racz Endowed Professor in Pain Research in the Department of Anesthesiology at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology with subspecialty certification in Pain Medicine. He also serves as an examiner for the World Institute of Pain. Previously, he served as the director and associate professor at the Eugene McDermott Center for Pain Management at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He serves on the editorial boards of Pain Practice and Pain Physician. He is the past-president of the Texas Pain Society and past-chair of the Board of Examination for the World Institute of Pain. Dr. Day received his medical degree from Texas A&M University Health Science Center in College Station and completed his general surgery internship at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. He completed his anesthesiology residency and pain fellowship at Texas Tech as well. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters in well-known publications. He has educated physicians globally to further the specialty of interventional pain medicine.

Dr. Sudhir Diwan, nationally and internationally recognized as a key opinion leader in the field of pain management, is the President, Park Avenue Spine and Pain, New York, Associate Clinical Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. Dr. Diwan was the former Director of the Tri-Institutional Pain Fellowship Program and Division of Pain Medicine at Ivy League Weill Medical College of Cornell University for more than a decade, where he also served as associate professor of clinical anesthesiology, and on the faculty at the world renowned New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Diwan has published extensively in prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals and medical books on a variety of pain management topics. He is on the Editorial Board for the Pain Physician – an official journal of the American Society of Pain Physicians (ASIPP) since 2008, and Pain Practice – official journal of World Institute of Pain (WIP) since 2009. He was invited Guest Editor for Journal of Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management 2009. Dr. Diwan is the Examiner for the Certification Board for American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP) and Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) offered by the World Institute of Pain. Dr. Diwan is Co-Editor for Intrathecal Drug Delivery for Pain and Spasticity, Vol 2, Timothy Deer, Series Editor, Elsevier-Saunders 2012, and Co-Editor for Diwan-Staats’s Atlas of Pain Medicine Procedures, McGraw Hill Education 2015, and Advanced Procedures for Pain Management, A step-by-step Atlas, Springer US, 2018
In addition to his busy pain management practice in New York City, Dr. Diwan lectures extensively and interacts regularly with experts in the field of pain medicine nationally and internationally. He has been guest speaker for many noteworthy organizations including the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), and State Societies Pain Meetings, the World Institute of Pain, NANS, INS, and numerous International pain specialty societies and congresses nationally and internationally. Currently he is Executive Director of NYSIPP and Course Chairman of the Annual NYSIPP/NJSIPP Pain Medicine Symposium, and President of ASIPP.

Dr. Eckmann received his Bachelor in 1998 from Texas A & M University. He received his Doctor of Medicine from Baylor College of Medicine, in 2003. Dr. Eckmann completed his anesthesiology residency program at the University of Michigan Health System in 2007.  In 2008, Dr. Eckmann continued with his postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Texas Health Science Center. Dr. Elenes is certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology.

Prof. Erdine is a Founder and Past President of the WIP. He is Founder and President of Turkish Society of Algology (1993-2015); Founder and Past President of Turkish Society of Regional Anesthesia (1993- 1995, 1998-2003); and has served in numerous other founding and leadership roles in professional societies through the world. Prof. Erdine is the recipient of the Young Leader in Medicine Award by the Turkish Jaysees (1991); the Lifetime Achievement Award Medical Chamber of Istanbul (2012); and the Trail Blazer award by World Institute of Pain (2017).

Dr. Lorand Eross is the head of the Functional Neurosurgical Department and Center of Neuromodulation at the National Institute of Clinical Neurosciences in Budapest. He is the Director of Research and Innovation. He leads the Epilepsy Surgery Program at the institute. He got his PhD degree at Semmelweis University in 2010 in epilepsy surgery. His main interest is epilepsy surgery, movement disorder surgery, neurosurgical treatment of pain, spasticity and neuromodulation. He has an active reasearch group in the field of epilepsy, chronic pain. He developed new intraoperative localisation method for invasive recordings in epilepsy surgery. His activity includes research and development of in vitro and in vivo electrophysiological and optical investigation methods. He is a lecturer at the Medical Faculty of the Semmelweis University and at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Faculty of Information Technology in bionical sciences.

Prof Dr Juan Carlos Flores is Fellow Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) and Medical Doctor; Director of CAIDBA Pain Center (EPP Award) and President of CAIDBA Foundation; Associate Professor of Anatomy of La Plata School of Medicine Buenos Aires Province, Argentina; Chairman Latin American Section World Institute of Pain; Chief of Pain Medicine of Clínica San Camilo; Director del Workshop Universitario CAIDBA sobre Técnicas Intervencionistas para Tratamiento del Dolor Refractario 2014/2019; Director Postgraduate Universitary Training in Interventional Pain Procedures for Refractory Pain; Autor Textbook: Medicina del Dolor, Perspectiva Internacional. JC Flores Ed Elsevier. Prof Flores works from 2005 with World Institute of Pain globally and specially in the Latin American Section very close with educational objectives in cadaver workshops and examination activities. And works in research developing new techniques and hybrid simulators and finally with CAIDBA Foundation group are helping resourceless patients.

From May of 2001 when Dr Racz visited Buenos Aires Dr Flores is giving Cadaver Workshop every year. Director Centro de Atención Integral del Dolor Buenos Aires CAIDBA www.caidba.com EPP Award 2011-2015 ; Director del Workshop Universitario CAIDBA sobre Técnicas Intervencionistas para Tratamiento del Dolor Refractario 2014/2019 (Workshop with Ultrasonography and Fluoroscopy under Cadaveric and Hybrid Human Simulators) ; Profesor Asociado de Anatomía Cátedra Prof Galli Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina ; Director of Laboratories of Unit Anatomo-Clinic of Pain Cathedra of Anatomy Prof Galli UNLP (La Plata School of Medicine) ; Director del Área de Investigaciones Básicas y Aplicadas en Medicina del Dolor de la UNLP (La Plata School of Medicine) ; Chairman Latin American Section World Institute of Pain ; Past-Chairman WFSA & CLASA Training Center Pain Medicine ; Jefe Sección Medicina del Dolor Clínica San Camilo Miembro del Comité Editorial Pain Practice, Rev Españ del Dolor, Rev Uruguaya de Anestesiología y Reanim y Past – Rev Argentina de Anestesiología ; Past President Argentinian Federation of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Reanimation ; Past President Pain Foundation (Fundación Dolor) Argentina; Past Director Carrera de Médicos Especialistas en Anestesiología de la Universidad de Buenos Aires ; Past Director del Curso Universitario de Expertos en Medicina del Dolor y Cuidados Paliativos de la Fundación Dolor y la Universidad de Buenos Aires; and actual President of ADAIDAR Academy.

After completing his residency in anesthesiology and pain at Monmouth Medical Center in New Jersey, Ira B. Fox, MD, DABPM, FIPP, ABIPP founded Anesthesia Pain Care Consultants. The former chief anesthesia resident has spent more than 30 years treating patients with acute and chronic pain. Dr. Fox maintains five board certifications: Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP); American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP); World Institute of Pain (WIP); American Board of Pain Medicine (DABPM); and the American Board of Anesthesiology with added certification in Pain Management. He also serves as an examiner for the FIPP Board Certification and prior ABIPP Interventional Practical Examination. As past chairman of the World Institute of Pain (WIP) Committee on Project Development, Dr. Fox’s mission was to help patients across the world find solutions to ease their suffering. In addition, he is a past Chairman of the Advisory Board, Honorary Treasurer, and had been a member of the Executive Board for 7 years. He also served as a trustee for the World Institute of Pain Foundation and is the current president of the World Society of Pain Clinicians, as well as a lifetime member of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Dr. Fox holds the distinction of being the Inaugural Executive Examiner at the WIP and American Academy of Pain Medicine Ultrasonography (AAPMU) 1st Annual WAPMU International Congress. On both a national and international level, Dr. Fox has conducted Comprehensive Review Courses and Cadaver Workshop conferences. He co-founded an annual conference and FIPP Board Examination in Miami that is bi-lingual and attracts physicians from throughout the US and southern hemisphere. Dr. Fox has focused on expanding the field of interventional pain management across the world to offer pain relief to citizens of less developed countries by helping train local physicians. That’s why he had organized and sponsored the Anesthesia Pain Care Consultants annual Pro/Am Charity Golf Tournament for six years, raising thousands of needed dollars to provide scholarships to these dedicated physicians. Since 1996, Dr. Fox and his dedicated staff of interventional pain management physicians and paraprofessionals have been committed to providing continuing education for area physicians, healthcare clinicians and workers’ compensation professionals. This will be Anesthesia Pain Care Consultants’ 22nd year conducting the APCC Pain Symposium, which features leaders in the field of pain management, and provides continuing education in the area of pain medicine. The hard work and commitment Dr. Fox and the APCC team devote to helping those who suffer from acute and chronic pain has not gone unnoticed. He was elected “America’s Top Physician” by the Pain Management Consumers’ Research Council of America, and is listed as a Top Doctor in Broward County by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. every year for more than a decade. Anesthesia Pain Care Consultants won the South Florida Business Journal Award for Excellence in Health Care in 2008. He has been published extensively and is frequently called on as an expert by print, television and online media reporters and editors. He lectures internationally and has had numerous media appearances which can be seen on the Anesthesia Pain Care Consultants website.

Since 2008 Chairman and Professor at the Mare Clinic Kiel Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology.
Since 2006 Senior Consultant and Professor at the Technical University Munich.
Since 2010 Chairman and Professor at the medical University of Kiel – Orthopaedic surgery & Traumatology.

Clinical focus: Joint Arthroplasty, Revision, Surgery, Joint preserving techniques, Tumor Surgery, Spine Surgery, Pain management.

Scientific focus: Clinical Trials, Evidence based Medicine

Awards

1. SICOT Award 2002
2. SICOT Award 2003
3. DIGEST Preis 2003 (Deutschsprachige Internationale Gesellschaft für Stosswellentherapie)
4. AAOS Award outstanding lecture
5. DIGEST Preis 2005
6. Lecture Award outstanding lecture Korean Orthopaedic Association 2006
7. ACFAS Award 2007

Dr. Dominic A. Hegarty is a Consultant in Pain Management & Neuromodulation at the Orthopaedic and Spine center, Mater Private Hospital, Cork.  Dr. Hegarty is recognized as one of the country’s foremost interventional pain management doctors who is constantly developing new pain techniques to deal with the most complex cases in this area. He is the holder of a doctrine degree (Ph.D., UCC), Master of Science (MSc., Edinburgh) a Fellowships in Ireland, USA (FIPP), and London (Royal College of Medicine) in the area of Pain Management.

He has specialized in pain management over the last 2 decades and his expertise in this area is regularly sought by national media and in the High Court on medical-legal matters. Dr. Hegarty has secured over €3 million in research grants and sponsorship over the last 3 years. He continues to collaborate with innovation centers and industry in order to provide the best solutions to help individuals who have to deal with chronic pain on a daily basis.

In addition to his teaching posts, Dr. Hegarty was awarded the unique position of Honorary Consultant in Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Hospital, London. He co-founded the division of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine Cork at University Hospital and South infirmary & Victoria Hospital in Cork, where he served as a consultant for 8 years in the Health Service Executive (HSE) before joining the Mater Private Hospital Cork.

Dr. Hegarty has served as WIP Honorary Treasurer prior to his current term as WIP President-Elect.

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery since 1989 -University Paris XII

Member of the International Hip Society

SICOT (International orthopaedic association) Board member (Treasurer)

Past president of SOFCOT (French orthopaedic society)

Topics:

• Bone marrow grafting and stem cell research
• Hip surgery
• Knee surgery

Dr. Manuel Herrero is board certified in anesthesiology and pain management. He completed his anesthesia training at Severo Ochoa Hospital, Madrid, and continued his specialization in pain management at Ciudad Real Hospital with his mentor and recognized pain physician, Dr. Joaquin Insausti. He is also a certified interventional pain sonologist (CIPS), a fellow of interventional pain practice (FIPP), and a European diploma in pain medicine (EDPM). Currently working in Madrid at Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda Hospital, and managing the Cancer Pain multidisciplinary Unit at HM Sanchinarro Hospital. He is a regular trainer in his country using fluoroscopy and ultrasound-guided minimally invasive interventional pain procedures, and honorary tutor of the Master of Pain treatment by the Rey Juan Carlos University.

Pranab Kumar is a Staff in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at University Hospital Network – Toronto Western Hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, Canada. He completed his pain fellowship at the London Deanery followed by a fellowship in neuromodulation at Guy’s and St. Thomas Hospital in the United Kingdom. As a clinician-teacher, he treated pain patients and taught fluoroscopy and ultrasound-guided minimally invasive interventional pain procedures, regional anesthesia techniques, and medication management for complex chronic pain patients to pain fellows and residents. He completed his FRCA & FFPMRCA examination from the Royal College of Anaesthetists, United Kingdom, followed by FRCPC from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

He is a member of the World Institute of Pain (WIP) and serves as an examiner for the FIPP (Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice) and CIPS (Certified Interventional Pain Sonologist) Board Certification. He is also an abstract reviewer for the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) and serves on the education committee for NANS.  His special Interests are regional anesthesiology, Ultrasound-guided pain interventions, various types of neuromodulation and pain management programs, and medical ethics.

He is a Fellow and faculty at the World Institute of Pain (WIP), World Academy of Pain Medicine United (WAPMU), USRA-Canada, LSORA, and Society of ultrasound Anesthesia (SUA).

Dr. Kumar has authored and co-authored book chapters and research papers and is the current American Society of Regional Anesthesia Newsletter liaison for Ultrasound Chronic Pain SIG.

Dr Lam is a musculoskeletal, sports and pain physician from Hong Kong. He is a Clinical Associate Professor (Honorary) in the Faculty of Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and he is also the President of the Hong Kong Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine, and the Founding President of the MSKUS Asia Pacific. He is also the Honorary Consultant of the Taiwan Association of Prolotherapy and Regenerative Medicine.
Dr. Lam is registered in Musculoskeletal Sonography (RMSK) credential in United States of America, awarded with RMSK Pioneer Certificate of The American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography in 2012. Dr. Lam is also a pain physician with board certification in CIPS (Certified Interventional Pain Sonologist) and FIPP (Fellow of Interventional Pain Physician) by the World Institute of Pain in 2017. Dr. Lam is also certified in POCUS (MSK Tissues) by the Alliance for Physician Certification & Advancement.
Dr Lam is a Teaching Faculty of MSKUS in United States of America for teaching diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound guided interventional procedures in different Universities of USA since 2011, including University of California San Francisco, University of North Texas, and the Eastern Virginia Medical School.
Dr Lam is a member of the American Association of Orthopedic Medicine (AAOM) and received the first batch of certificate in Prolotherapy in 2010. Dr Lam has been the Teaching Faculty of AAOM since Apr 2013, mainly teaching advanced musculoskeletal ultrasound diagnosis and ultrasound guided intervention in annual conference and hands-on workshop.
Dr. Lam has delivered numerous lectures and hands-on workshops in the following topics: “ultrasound guided hydrodissection of peripheral nerves and deep nerves” in different universities and conferences; “Dynamic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Scanning of Different Joints and Nerves”; “US Guided Injection of Cervical Spine, Thoracic Spine and Lumbar Spine”; and “Regenerative medicine for managing sports injury, musculoskeletal medicine and chronic pain”.

Dr Lam’s research interests are:

• Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Guided Hydrodissection/ Hydrorelease of Nerves Impingement or Entrapment problems.
• Dynamic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound scanning for Assisting Diagnosing and Managing Musculoskeletal problems.
• Ultrasound guided regenerative medicine treatment for pain from sports injuries, degenerations and chronic neuropathic pain.

Dr. Robert Levy earned his medical degree at Stanford University, where he also received his Ph.D. in neurosciences and completed a postdoctoral fellowship. He performed a second postdoctoral research fellowship and his residency in neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, where his mentors included Dr. Howard Fields, Dr. Charles Wilson, and Dr. Yoshio Hosobuchi. He then moved to Northwestern University where he rose to the level of Tenured Professor of Neurological Surgery, Physiology, and Radiation Oncology at the Feinberg School of Medicine.  During this period, he served as Acting Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery.  He was then recruited to serve as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery and Co-Director of the UF Health Jacksonville Neuroscience Institute at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville, FL.  He most recently served as the Founding Director of the Marcus Neuroscience Institute and Director of the Harvey Sandler Center for Neurosurgery in Boca Raton, FL.  Dr. Levy has authored several textbooks and published 300 peer reviewed journal articles. He has been the recipient of many national and international honors and awards and has been listed in the Best Doctors in America.  His current research involves novel applications of neurostimulation and targeted drug delivery to the brain.  He has assisted with the design and implementation of multiple new neuromodulation technologies and instruments.

Dr. Ana Carolina graduated as an MD in 2007 at Souza Marques School of Medicine in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She completed her specialization in anesthesiology in 2011 at Miguel Couto Municipal Hospital. In 2010, she spent three months accompanying the Anesthesiology Department of Saint Antoine Hospital in Paris, France where she dedicated herself to peripheral nerve blocks with ultrasonography. She worked as an anesthesiologist until 2014, when she began her postgraduate studies in Pain Medicine at Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. She did her fellowship in interventional pain medicine from 2015-2016 at Singular in Campinas, Brazil. For one month in 2016 she assisted Dr. Sudhir Diwan in New York City, USA. Recipient of the Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP / WIP) in 2017 and the Certified of Interventional Pain Sonologist (CIPS / WAPMU) in 2018. That same year she received Pain MSK Ultrasound Certified (PMUC / ASRA). Currently she works at her private clinic, Lotus – Pain Management Center, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is part of the clinical staff for pain management at Glória D’or Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Publisher of the Oncological Pain Treaty, published in 2019, with participation in several other works. Former director of Sobramid (Brazilian Society of Interventional Pain Physicians). Participant in several congresses as organizer and speaker. Guest speaker at PSI (Pain School International – Budapest). Post-graduate professor in Interventional Pain Medicine at Israelita Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil.

Dr Padilla del Rey studied Medicine at the University of Murcia (Spain), specialized in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at Morales Meseguer University Hospital in Murcia and completed fellowship training in Pain Medicine at Cécil Clinic Multidisciplinary Pain Center in Lausanne (Switzerland). She became a FIPP (Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice) in 2014, got the European Pain Federation Diploma in Pain Medicine (EDPM) in 2017 and became a CIPS (Certified Interventional Pain Sonologist) in 2019. She has a Master’s Degree in Health Management and a Master’s Degree in Nutrition & Dietetics.
She has presented numerous posters in national and international congresses and has also been author of articles in pain journals and chapters in some pain books.
Dr Padilla del Rey is a reviewer for the Spanish Society of Pain Journal and forms part of the Spanish Society of Pain Master’s Degree faculty. She is a member of the Murcian Society of Pain, the Spanish Society of Pain and the World Institute of Pain.
She has worked as an anesthesiologist and pain physician at Morales Meseguer University Hospital and since 2018 she is working at Santa Lucía General University Hospital in Cartagena (Spain)

Dr. Andre Mansano is a physician at Singular – Pain Management Center Brazil with anesthesia and pain management background. He obtained PhD degree in 2013. He became a FIPP (Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice) in 2015 and now is a member of the World Institute of Pain (WIP) Education Committee. He also serves as an observer for the FIPP exam. He has specialized training in fluoroscopic guided minimally invasive interventional acute and cronic pain procedures as well as regional anesthesia techniques; and medication management for medically challenging cronic pain patients within a multidisciplinary pain clinic. He has been a teacher for Brazilian Singular Fellowship for 3 years, which is the inspiration for the Pain School International.

Univ.-Prof. Bernhard Moriggl started his University career in 1986 and has done Ultrasonography (US) ever since. He serves as Mentor and senior author for many of his US-scholars. Prof. Moriggl’s Clinical Training led to Engagement in RA and Pain. In 2008 he became Founding Father of the SIG US in Pain Medicine (ASRA). Prof. Moriggl is Contributor of the Practical Guide RA, the pocket-book RA: Principals and Practical Implementation, both editions of the Atlas of Ultrasound-Guided Procedures in Interventional Pain Management (Spine and GON-chapter) and Co-editor of the iBook Anatomy and Sono-anatomy of US-guided Pain interventions. End of July 2018, the booklet “Solid Nerve Sonography” (Springer Germany) was released (Editor). The English version (Editor) “Sonographic Peripheral Nerve Topography” A Landmark based Algorithm followed this year end of April (Springer International). Over 100 original papers were authored by him. Prof. Moriggl has plenty of international cooperation, e.g. with the Denmark-people around Jens Børglum and Thomas Fichtner Bendtsen. He acted in co-development, support and as inaugural CIPS examiner (WIP-certified) of the WAPMU (and was first Chair of Scientific Committee).

Attending Physician, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, TAIWAN

Medical Director, PAN Regenerative Pain Clinic, Taipei, TAIWAN

Managing Director, Taiwan Pain Society

Board-certified in Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine, Taiwan Academy of PM&R (TAPMR)

Board-certified in Pain Medicine, Taiwan Pain Society (TPS)

Board-certified in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, Taiwan Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (SUMROC)

Certified Interventional Pain Sonographer (CIPS), WAPMU

Degrees:

Doctor of Medicine (MD), National Taiwan University

EMBA, National Taiwan University

 Specialty:

Cell-based Regenerative Pain Medicine

Ultrasound-guided Pain Intervention

Platelet-rich Plasma Injections

Dry Needle Fibrolysis/MTrP injections

Dextrose Prolotherapy

Hyaluronate Injections

System Pain Approaches

Dr Vikram B. Patel is an anesthesiologist and a board certified interventional pain specialist with nearly 25 years of experience and has trained numerous pain physicians in USA and across the globe. He is the past program director for pain fellowship at Loyola University Hospital in Chicago and was an associate professor at the Department of Anesthesiology. Currently he is the Director at Phoenix Interventional Center for Advanced Learning near Chicago, USA and Associate Medical Director Clinical Operations for AIM Specialty Health in Chicago, USA. He has published numerous book chapters and journal articles and has directed cadaver courses for several years at ASA, ASRA-PM, CCF etc. He is an examiner for FIPP and DABIPP examinations and has served as a Board member for the FIPP Board of Examination in the past.

Dr. Philip Peng is the professor in the Department of Anesthesiology of University of Toronto. He is a leader, researcher, educator and pioneer in the application of ultrasound for pain medicine. His innovative research led to different new procedures in pain intervention. He received numerous educational awards including the John J Bonica award from ASRA and ESRA-Spain Distinguished Service Award. He has delivered more than 350 lectures and workshops nationally and internationally. He has edited 8 books and published more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.

Dr. Christophe Perruchoud is a Privat Docent at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and board-certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
He is the co-founder of the pain clinic in La Tour Hospital in Geneva and a pain consultant at the University Hospital in Lausanne (CHUV).
His main clinical interests are the treatment of chronic pain states by neuromodulation techniques such as spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation, and intrathecal implanted pump.
He is the actual president of the Swiss Neuromodulation Society. His current research interests focus on the study of the distribution in the cerebrospinal fluid of intrathecally administered drugs.

John V. Prunskis, M.D. FIPP, is one of Illinois’ most esteemed interventional pain specialists. Dr. Prunskis is a presidential appointee to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Best Practices Pain Task Force in Washington, D.C., to establish national standards for the treatment of pain where he currently serves when not seeing patients.

Dr. Prunskis is an 11-time winner of the Castle Connolly Top Pain Doctor Award as voted by his peers (1999, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), and has been honored as a US News and World Report Top Top Physician. Board-certified in anesthesiology, pain management, and achieving the highest distinction for an interventional pain physician as a Fellow in Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP), Dr. Prunskis is founder and co-Medical Director of Illinois Pain & Spine Institute and is a Clinical Professor at Chicago Medical School.

He earned his medical degree at Rush Medical College of Chicago and completed his anesthesiology residency and fellowship training at the University of Chicago. He is an examiner for the interventional pain certification examination and a clinical professor at Chicago Medical School.

A frequent lecturer, Dr. Prunskis is a past Secretary of the Illinois Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and is an active member of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, American Pain Society, McHenry County Medical Society (past president), the International Spinal Injection Society and the Illinois State Medical Society (past delegate).

Dr. Prunskis has also been elected to his third term representing Lithuanian-Americans in the Lithuanian Parliament. His hobbies include reading, snow skiing, exercise, and anything with four tires and an engine.

Dr Edit Racz has more than 30 years of experience in chronic pain management, with anesthesia and critical care background. She got involved with the World Institute of Pain (WIP) in 1994 and initiated the yearly Budapest Congress with Professors Prithvy Raj, Gabor Rácz and late Jim Heavner. She was one of the first to establish chronic pain care in Hungary and was the first Hungarian Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice.
Since 2013 she serves as a board examiner for WIP and she is the President of the Hungarian Chapter of the WIP.
She was a Chief Anesthesiologist, Intensivist and Pain physician at Péterfy Hospital, Budapest between 1999 and 2018. Since 2018 she has been practicing in private practice at Saint Magdolna Hospital. She performs most fluoroscopy and ultrasound guided pain interventional procedures, as well as teaches more advanced procedures to pain physicians from all over Europe. Regenerative medicine has been a part of her practice since 2006.
Currently she works in chronic interventional pain and anesthesia in Budapest at St Magdolna Private Hospital.
Her main clinical interests are treatment options for lumbar hernias, failed back surgery syndrome and regenerative medicine techniques (such as PRP and prolotherapy for various spine and musculoskeletal conditions).

Grover Murray Professor and TTUHSC Endowed Chair
Professor and Chairman Emeritus Department of Anesthesiology
Past President of Texas Pain Society
Founder and Past President of World Institute of Pain

Dr. Racz graduated The University of Liverpool Medical School, completed his residency at SUNY Upstate Medical Center and served at SUNY from 1966-1977 when he moved to Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center where he served until 2016 as co-director of Pain Services at Grace Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas. Dr. Racz is a founder and past president of World Institute of Pain and Texas Pain Society. He is the first Grover E. Murry Professor named after the first President of the Texas Tech University School of Medicine. He was director of the TTUHSC Pain Symposium since its inception 33 years ago and is also Director of the annual Budapest Conference since it began 23 years ago. He was the first President of the Texas Pain Society.
Dr. Racz board certified with the American Board of Anesthesiology, the American Board of Anesthesiology subspecialty in Pain Medicine, and holds the certificates of Diplomat with the American College of Pain Medicine, Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice awarded by the World Institute of Pain and the Diplomat American Board of Interventional Pain Practice (DABIPP) certification awarded by ASIPP and WIP. He is an advocate for high standards of certification and training among pain physicians and works toward the advancement of those goals.
He has received numerous recognitions and awards from organizations around the world including Distinguished Professor Award for Lifetime Achievement from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, the Lifetime Achievement Award(s) from American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, ASIPP keynote speaker lecture series named for Raj/Racz, and the MORICCA AWARD, the highest award presented by the Italian Pain Society. He educated over 1,000 Pain Physician visitors during tenure at Texas Tech.
He has published over 200 book chapters and journal articles and three books describing his techniques in spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulation, neurolysis, radiofrequency thermocoagulation and other interventional procedures. Today, Dr. Racz continues to practice in Dallas, Texas, hosts Racz Labs Interventional workshops, and travels around the world presenting lectures and workshops.

Dr. Staats was the founder of the division of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, where he was the division chief and director for over a decade. In this capacity he was youngest major division chief in the history of Johns Hopkins Hospital and was the first anesthesiologist to obtain surgical privileges at any academic university. In 2003 he became a founding partner in Premier Pain Centers in New Jersey which merged with National Spine and Pain Centers (NSPC), the largest pain practice in the United States. He is currently the chief medical officer of National Spine and Pain. He serves on the United States Health and Human Services Pain task force subcommittee.
He is boarded by the American Society of Anesthesiology, the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP) and the World Institute of Pain (FIPP). He has edited or co- authored 11 textbooks on pain medicine and written over four hundred articles, book chapters and abstracts on neuromodulation and the diagnosis and management of complex pain problems. His publications have appeared in prominent journals including JAMA, Lancet, Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine and others. He has chaired hundreds of meetings devoted to innovation in pain and neuromodulation around the world.
He is listed in Americas Top Doctors, New Jersey Top Doctors and Best Doctors in America. He is the Past President of (ASIPP), The American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS), the southern pain society the New Jersey Society of interventional pain physicians (NJSIPP) and was the first chair of the American Society of Anesthesia’s committee on Interventional pain. He served as chairman of Board of Examination World Institute of Pain (WIP) and is currently President Elect of the WIP.

In Prof.dr Monique Steegers’ patient care, research and education, the daily clinical practice of patients influensing the quality of life of patients with acute and chronic pain and in the palliative care setting is still the starting point. Prof.dr. Steegers focuses mainly on the development of acute and chronic pain medicine. She focuses on the question of multidimensionality and interdisciplinary action in the chain care of the pain. She works extensively with national and international education groups and will always look for national and international connection in her research. As full professor dr. Steegers wants to further develop solid networks with professionals working in the field of pain medicine and palliative care influencing the quality of life.

Dr. Agnes Stogicza is a board-certified anesthesiologist and pain physician with 15+ years of experience in interventional pain management. She completed her pain fellowship at the University of Washington, where she was on faculty from 2010 to 2017. As a clinician-educator she treated pain patients and taught fluoroscopy and ultrasound guided minimally invasive interventional pain procedures, regional anesthesia techniques and medication management for complex chronic pain patients to pain fellows and residents.
Currently she works in chronic interventional pain and anesthesia in Budapest at St Magdolna Private Hospital.
She is a member of the World Institute of Pain (WIP) Education Committee, Vice-Chair of the Hungarian Section of WIP and serves as an examiner for the FIPP (Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice) and CIPS (Certified Interventional Pain Sonologist) Board Certification.
She regularly lectures and teaches interventional pain procedures in the US, Europe, South America, India and Africa for the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), World Institute of Pain (WIP), American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA), World Academy of Pain Medicine Ultrasonography (WAPMU), Singular and other societies.
She is a co-founder of Pain School International that provides interventional pain education in Budapest for doctors from all around the world.
She has authored and co-authored numerous book-chapters and papers in chronic pain management.
Her main clinical interests are neck pain and headaches, peripheral nerve entrapments, and regenerative medicine techniques (such as PRP, BMC and prolotherapy for various spine and musculoskeletal conditions).

Andrea Trescot, MD is past president of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), past president of the Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (FSIPP), past president of the Alaska Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (AKSIPP), a former professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and the previous director of the pain fellowship programs at the University of Washington and the University of Florida. She was a pain clinic director in private practice for 10 years before she moved to academics. She has returned to private practice, where she splits her time between Alaska and Florida. She is also the Chief Medical Officer of Stimwave, a wireless stimulation company. Dr. Trescot has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and textbook chapters, and she is the editor and senior author of a 900-page pain textbook (Peripheral Nerve Entrapments – Clinical Diagnosis and Management). She is also co-author of PainWise – A Patient’s Guide to Pain Management, as well as co-editor of the three-volume pain review textbook Pain Medicine & Interventional Pain Management – A Comprehensive Review. She speaks internationally on topics of pain medicine and interventional pain management.

Robert van Dongen MD PhD was trained as an anesthetist in Amsterdam and moved to Nijmegen (eastern part of the Netherlands) in 1987.

Initially working at the OR combined with pain treatment, he wrote a PhD thesis on intrathecal opioids and bupivacaine in cancer patients.

Since 2010 he works full time as an anesthetist-pain specialist at the Radboud University Medical Centre as well as at the Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, both in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The main focus of his activities is chronic pain, pain in cancer and palliative care, and neuromodulation (spinal cord stimulation).

Kris Vissers is an anesthesiologist, professor in Pain and Palliative Medicine, and chairman of the Radboud Expertise Center of Pain and Palliative Medicine of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands. He is also the chair of the Acute Pain Care improvement program of the academic hospital.

He obtained his graduation in Medical Sciences at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and his graduation as an Anesthesiologist at the University of Antwerp and the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1993. He specialized in pain management in Leuven (B) and Nijmegen (NL), with Prof. Dr. H. Adriaensen, Prof. Dr. H. van Aken, Prof. Dr. L. Booij and Prof. Dr. B. Crul. As of 1995, he was a staff member of the University-affiliated Hospital East-Limburg, Genk, Belgium where he founded the Multidisciplinary Pain Center. He was visiting consultant for the palliative care unit and hospital team. He was consultant for the home care organization in Palliative Care “Pallium” in Limburg (B).

He obtained the degree of doctor in the medical sciences Ph.D. in 2004 at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, The Netherlands. Also, he graduated as a Fellow in Interventional Pain Practice for the World Institute of Pain (U.S.A.) in 2004.

Since 2005, he is Professor in Pain and Palliative Medicine. He is Chair of the Board of Examination of the World Institute of Pain, Honorary Secretary of the Benelux Chapter of the World Institute of Pain, and the first chairman of the Dutch Society of Multidisciplinary Palliative Care Professionals[1], chapter of the European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC) and board member of the Dutch Pain Society, chapter of the IASP.

His main research interests are (1) translational approach and research on neuropathic pain, (2) practical and ethical application of palliative sedation, (3) proactive care and identification of patients in a palliative trajectory, (4) quality indicators of the organization and practice of pain and palliative medicine, (5) e-health and telemedicine in transmural care programs (6) decision making in palliative care and end-of-life and (7) the description of competences and performances for the education and training in pain and palliative medicine.

He succeeded together with his young research group in getting external funding resources for major research projects in pain and palliative care (Europall, 7th framework, ZonMw, NWO, KWF, STW).

He is the author of more than 160 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and contributed to more than 20 textbooks. He contributes to local and national education with regular articles in Belgian and Dutch journals for physicians and for the lay public. He is frequently asked as a speaker during national and international congresses and teaching courses. He is the promotor of 26 PhD students in his topics of interest. He organized 7 international congresses and workshops. He was a member of several scientific committees of congresses.