The American Academy of Pain Medicine

2010 Annual Meeting Program Committee

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Conference Co-Chair
Timothy R. Deer, MD
President and CEO
The Center for Pain Relief
Charleston, WV

Conference Co-Chair
Ajay D. Wasan, MD MSc
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Director, Section of Clinical Pain Research Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA

Essentials Course Co-Chair
Zahid H. Bajwa, MD
Assistant Professory - Department of Anesthesiology and Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Director, Education and Clinical Pain Research
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA

Essentials Course Co-Chair
Gagan Mahajan, MD
Associate Professor - Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
University of California - Davis School of Medicine
Sacramento, CA

Scientific Poster Session Chair
Jeffrey M. Tiede, MD
Columbia Interventional Pain Center
Columbia, MO

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Marc A. Huntoon, MD
Interventional Track Section Head
Consultant
Division of Pain Medicine
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
College of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Leonardo Kapural, MD PhD
Interventional Track Section Head
Pain Management Department
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH

Donna M. Bloodworth, MD
Integrative Track Section Head
Associate Professor
Quentin Mease Community Hospital
Department of Physical Medicine & Rehab
Houston, TX

Michael H. Moskowitz, MD MPH
Integrative Track Section Head
Adjunct Professor - University of California - Davis School of Medicine
Bay Area Pain Medical Associates
Mill Valley, CA

Asokumar Buvanendran, MD
Director of Orthopedic Anesthesia
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL

Paul Christo, MD MBA
Assistant Professor
Director - Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship
Director - Pain Treatment Center
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Pain Treatment Center
Dept of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Robert I. Cohen, MD
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor - Anesthesiology
Beth Israel Hospital
Arnold Pain Management Ctr
Boston, MA

Steven Cohen, MD
Anesthesiology - Pain Management Center
Anesthesiology, Pain Management
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Daniel Doleys, PhD
Director
Pain & Rehabilitation Institute
Birmingham, AL

Larry C. Driver, MD
Adjunct Ethicist - Clinical Ethics,
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
UT MD Anderson Cancer Ctr
Houston, TX

Perry G. Fine, MD
Past Chair
Professor
University of Utah - Pain Research Center
Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT

Scott M. Fishman, MD MPH
Chief - Division of Pain Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
University of California - Davis School of Medicine
Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center
Sacramento, CA

Douglas Gourlay, MD FRCP
Anaesthesiology
Wasser Pain Management Centre
Mt Sinai Hospital
Waterdown, ON Canada

Martin Grabois, MD
VP Scientific Affairs Rep
Professor, Department Chair
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Howard A. Heit, MD FACP FASAM
Assistant Clinical Professor
Georgetown University - School of Medicine
Fairfax, VA

Diane Moskowitz Keaney, MSN RN CNS
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Bay Area Pain Medical Associates
Mill Valley, CA

Tim J. Lamer, MD
Associate Professor, Department Chair
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Robert M. Levy, MD PhD
Professor - Neurological Surgery
Associate Professor - Physiology
Northwestern University -  Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL

Bill H. McCarberg, MD
Kaiser Permanente
Chronic Pain Management Program
Escondido, CA

Sunil J. Panchal, MD
President
National Institute of Pain/COPE Foundation
Lutz, FL

Jeffrey Peterson, PA
Physician Assistant
The Center for Pain Relief
Charleston, WV

Jerome  Schofferman, MD
SpineCare Medical Group, Inc.
Daly City, CA

Steven P. Stanos, DO
Assistant Professor - Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Medical Director - Center for Pain Management
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL

C. Douglas Stewart, PAC
Physician Assistant
Center for Pain Relief
Charleston, WV

Lynn R. Webster, MD
Medical Director
Life Tree Pain Clinic
Salt Lake City, UT

Way Yin, MD
Advisor
Interventional Medical Associates of Bellingham PC
Bellingham, WA

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORS

United States

Rollin M. Gallagher, MD MPH
Director for Pain Policy Research and Primary Care
Penn Pain Medicine
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Anesthesiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
and
Deputy National Program Director for Pain Management
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Philadelphia, PA

Michel Y. Dubois, MD
Director of Research and Education
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY

China

De Ren Zhang, MD
Director - Nan Shan Hospital
Nanshan, Shenzhen
China

Jisheng Han, MD
Professor of Physiology
Director - Neuroscience Research Institute
Peking University
Beijing, China

Australia/New Zealand

Michael Cousins, MD DSc FANZCA FRCA FAChHPM(RACP) FFPMANZCA
University of Sydney at Royal North Shore Hospital
Pain Management Research Institute
Sydney, Australia

C. Roger Goucke,  MB ChB DTM&H FANZCA FFPMANCZA FAChPM
Director - Pain Management Department
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Nikolai Bogduk, MD PhD
Department of Clinical Reseearch
Newcastle Bone and Joint Institution
Royal Newcastle Hospital4
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia