Editor-in-Chief: Alan David Kaye, MD, PhD
Managing Editor: Bert Fellows, MA

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief : Alan David Kaye, MD, PhD

Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs 

Chief Academic Officer, and Provost 

Tenured Professor of Anesthesiology. and Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Neurosciences 

LSU School of Medicine 

1501 Kings Hwy, Shreveport, LA 71103
[email protected]

Past Editors in Chief

Howard S. Smith 2007 – 2013
Mark V. Boswell 2004 – 2007
Curtis S. Slipman 2002 – 2003
Bert Fellows 1999 – 2001

Managing Editor

Bert Fellows, MA
Director Emeritus
Psychological Services
Pain Management Center of Paducah
2831 Lone Oak Road
Paducah, KY 42003

SECTION EDITORS


Interventional Techniques
Alaa A. Abd-Elsayed, MD
Madison, WI

Kenneth Candido, MD
Chicago, IL

Christopher Gharibo, MD
New York, NY

Jay S. Grider, DO, PhD
Lexington, KY

Michael E. Harned, MD
Lexington, KY

Maunak V. Rana, MD
Chicago, IL

Mahendra R. Sanapati, MD
Evansville, IN

Thomas Simopoulos, MD
Boston, MA

Bradley W. Wargo, DO
Memphis, TN

Basic Science
Mark V. Boswell, MD, PhD
Round Rock, TX

Ike Eriator, MD
Jackson, MS

Nebojsa Nick Knezevic, MD, PhD
Chicago, IL

Amol Soin, MD
Dayton, OH

Ricardo Vallejo, MD, PhD
Bloomington, IL

Cancer Pain
Salahadin Abdi, MD, PhD
Houston, TX

Controlled Substances
Sanford M. Silverman, MD
Pompano Beach, FL

Endoscopic Spinal Decompression
Albert Telfeian, MD, PhD
Providence, RI

Sukdeb Datta, MD
Brooklyn, NY

Health Policy
Hans C. Hansen, MD
Conover, NC

Gabor Racz, MD
Lubbock, TX

Neuromodulation
Ramsin M. Benyamin, MD
Bloomington, IL

Amol Soin, MD
Dayton, OH

Pharmacology
Adam M. Kaye, PharmD
Stockton, CA

Radiology
Sheri L. Albers, DO
Sacramento, CA

Douglas Spiel, MD
Edison, NJ

Regenerative Medicine
Steve M. Aydin, DO
 Manhattan, NY

Sudhir A. Diwan, MD
 New York, NY

Sameer Jain, MD
 Little Rock, AR

EDITORIAL BOARD


Alaa A. Abd-Elsayed, MD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health- Madison, WI

Salahadin (Sal) Abdi, MD, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center-Houston, TX

Scott Adelman, MD
The SMART Clinic-Sandy, UT

Rohit Aiyer, MD
Henry Ford Health System- Detroit, MI

Sheri L. Albers, DO
Radiology Research and Consultation- Sacramento, CA
Banner University Medical Center- Tucson, AZ

George J. Arcos, DO
Associates in Medicine and Surgery-Naples, FL

Sairam Atluri, MD
Tristate Pain Management- Cincinnati, OH

Steve M. Aydin, DO
Kayal Orthopaedic Center-Paramus, NJ
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra- Manhasset, NY

Travis L. Bailey, DO
Valdosta Orthopedic Associates- Valdosta, GA

Sanjay Bakshi, MD
Lenox Hill Hospital- New York, NY

Carl C. Balog, MD
BALOG Regenerative- Tigard, OR

Robert Barkin, PharmD
Rush University- Chicago, IL

Stacie Barkin, PsyD
Come Upon Me Behavioral Health- Scottsdale, AZ

Steven Barna, MD
LCPMD-Tampa, FL
University of South Florida College of     Medicine

Ramsin M. Benyamin, MD
National Spine and Pain- Bloomington, IL

Christopher L. Beuer, MD
Christian Hospital-St. Louis, MO

Sushma Bhatnagar, MD
All India Institute of Medical Sciences- New Delhi, India

Mark V. Boswell, MD, PhD
University of Toledo Medical Center-Toledo, OH

Elyse C. Bradley, PhD
LSU School of Medicine-Shreveport, LA

Aaron Calodney, MD
Precision Spine Care - Texas Spine and Joint Hospital- Tyler, TX
Louisiana State University- Shreveport, LA

Kenneth Candido, MD
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center -Chicago, IL

Jason Capra, MD, PhD
University of New Mexico -Albuquerque, NM

David L. Cedeno, PhD
National Spine and Pain- Bloomington, IL

Thomas Chai, MD
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center- Houston, TX

Yinan Chen, MD, PhD
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center- Houston, TX

Srinivas Chiravuri, MD
Michigan Medicine- Ann Arbor, MI

Pradeep Chopra, MD
Pain Management Center- Providence, RI

Robert Chow, MD
Yale NewHaven Health- New Haven, CT

Paul J. Christo, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine-  Baltimore, MD

C. Ann Conn, MD
Advanced Pain Institute- Covington, LA

Harold Cordner, MD
Florida Pain Management Associates-
Sebastian, FL

Tammy Dann, DO
Pain Evaluation and Management Center of Ohio-Centerville, OH

Sukdeb Datta, MD
Laser Spine & Pain Institute-New York, NY

Miles Day, MD
Texas Tech University HSC- Lubbock, TX

Sudhir A. Diwan, MD
Advanced Spine on Park Avenue
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Lenox Hill Hospital-New York, NY

Michael A. Erdek, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine-Berman Institute of Bioethics-
Baltimore, MD

Ike Eriator, MD
University of Mississippi Medical Center- Jackson, MS

Clifford R. Everett, MD
University of Rochester Medical Center- Rochester, NY

Fadi Farah, MD
Montefiore Medical Center
Albert Einstein School of Medicine-NY

Frank Falco, MD
Mid Atlantic Spine & Pain Physicians-
Temple University Hospital-Newark, DE

Ira Fox, MD
Anesthesia Pain Care Consultants and Surgery Center of Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Bassem Georgy, MD
San Diego Imaging, University of California San Diego- San Diego, CA

Christopher Gharibo, MD
New York University Hospitals Center- New York, NY

Jay S. Grider, DO, PhD
University of Kentucky-Lexington, KY

Xiaofei Guan, MD, PhD
Burke Neurological Institute
Weill Cornell Medicine -White Plains, NY

Mayank Gupta, MD
Kansas Pain Management & Neuroscience Research Center-Overland Park, KS
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences-Overland Park, KS

Rajiv Gupta, MD, PhD
Massachusettes General Hospital-Boston, MA

Alan Guy, MD
Performance Spine and Sports Medicine-  Lawrenceville, NJ

Hans C. Hansen, MD
The Pain Relief Centers, LLC-Conover, NC

Michael E. Harned, MD
University of Kentucky-Lexington, KY

David Harrell, PhD
Harrell BioScience Consulting, LLC- New York, NY

Standiford Helm II, MD
The Helm Center for Pain Management- Laguna Woods, CA

Carolina Hernandez Porras, MD
Instituto Nacional de Cancer- Mexico City, Mexico

Paul Hilliard, MD
University of Michigan Hospital and Health Systems-Ann Arbor, MI

Danqing Hu, MD, PhD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine-  Rochester, MN

Corey W. Hunter, MD
Ainsworth Institute of Pain Management Mount Sinai Hospital-New York, NY

Navdeep Jassal, MD
Spine & Pain Institute of Florida- Lakeland, FL

Bhawna Jha, MD
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Alternate Payment Model/Population Health- Little Rock, AR

Andrew G. Kaufman, MD
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School- Newark, NJ

Adam M. Kaye, PharmD
Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences-Stockton, CA
University of the Pacific-Stockton, CA

Yury Khelemsky, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai- New York, NY

Chong H. Kim, MD
Case Western Reserve University/ MetroHealth- Cleveland, OH

Hee Kee Kim, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center- Houston, TX

Kyung-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD
Pusan National University School of Medicine-Yangsan, South Korea

Meera Kirpekar, MD
NYU Langone, New York City, NY

John H. Knab, MD
Center for Pain Management- Wilmington, NC

Nebojsa Nick Knezevic, MD, PhD
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
College of Medicine, University of Illinois
Chicago, IL

Ira Kornbluth, MD
KureSmart Pain Management
Owing Mills, MD

Dhanalakshmi Koyyalagunta, MD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center- Houston, TX

Radomir Kosanovic, MD
Pain Management Centers of America, Evansville, IN

Sunil Kukreja, MD
Datta Endoscopic Back Surgery and Pain Center-NJ & NY

Christina Le-Short, MD
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center- Houston, TX

Sean Li, MD
Premier Pain Centers-Shrewbury, NJ

Adam Madl, DO
Kansas Pain Management-Lawrence, KS

Osama Malak, MD
Comprehensive Pain Care Center, Inc.- Lorain, OH

Mark N. Malinowski, DO
Adena Spine Center- Chillicothe, OH
Ohio University Heritage COM

Vivek A. Manocha, MD
Interventional Spine & Pain Center-Springboro, OH

Juan Mora, MD
University of Florida School of Medicine- Gainesville, FL

Ramana Naidu, MD
California Orthopedics & Spine
Marin General Hospital-Larkspur, CA

Devi Nampiaparampil, MD
NYU Langone Health- New York, NY

Annu Navani, MD
Comprehensive Spine & Sports Center-Campbell, CA

Kent H. Nouri, MD
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center- Houston, TX

C. Obi Onyewu, MD
CHOICE Pain & Rehabilitation Center, LLC- Lanham, MD

Miguel A. Pappolla, MD
St Michael’s Pain & Spine Clinics-Pasadena, TX  

Vikram Patel, MD
Phoenix Interventional Center for Advanced Learning-  Algnoquin, IL

Neha Pawar, MD
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

Rene Przkora, MD, PhD
University of Florida- Gainesville, FL

Gabor Racz, MD
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-Lubbock, TX

Maunak V. Rana, MD
University of Chicago Medicine-Chicago, IL

Louis J. Raso, MD
The Pain Center- Jupiter, FL

Kartic Rajput, MD, PhD
Central Nebraska Pain Clinic- Grand Island, NE

Kent Remley, MD
Georgia Pain & Spine Care- Newnan, GA

Varun Rimmalapudi, MD
Clearway Pain Solutions Institute
Florida State University College of Medicine
University of Central Florida- Pensacola, FL

Adam Romman, MD
University of Texas Medical Branch- Galveston, TX

David I. Rosenblum, MD
Maimonides Medical Center-Green Neck, NY

David P. Russo, DO
Columbia Pain Management
Hood River, OR

Anthony Sabatino, MD
Consults for Third Bridge, GLG, Alphasights, and ICS- Walnut Creek, CA

Harsh Sachdeva, MD
University of Cincinnati-Cincinnati, OH

Mahendra R. Sanapati, MD
Pain Management Centers of Americal-Evansville, IN

Nalini Sehgal, MD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health- Madison, WI

Shalini Shah, MD
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine- Orange, CA

Naum Shaparin, MD
University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine- Bronx, NY

Vandana Sharma, MD
Upstate Medical Anesthesiology Group- Syracuse, NY

Nikhil A. Shetty, MD
Midwest Interventional Spine Specialists- Munster, IN

Sanford M. Silverman, MD
Silver Lining Medical Consultants-Pompano Beach, FL

Thomas Simopoulos, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center- Boston, MA

Vanila M. Singh, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine- Palo Alto, CA

Konstantin V. Slavin, MD
University of Illinois at Chicago- Chicago, IL

William Smith, BS
Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine-Lebanon, NH

Lee Snook, MD
Metropolitan Pain Management Consultants, Inc- Sacramento, CA
Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine

Amol Soin, MD
Ohio Pain Clinic- Dayton, OH
Wright State University
Ohio University College of Medicine
University of Pikeville-Kentucky College of Medicine

Daneshvari R. Solanki, FRCA
University of Texas Medical Branch- Galveston, TX

Douglas Spiel, MD
Spiel MD Interventional Pain Specialist-Edison, NJ

Milan P. Stojanovic, MD
Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital,
VA Boston Healthcare System
Harvard Medical School Boston, MA

Gururau Sudarshan, MD
University of Cincinnati-Cincinnati, OH

Albert Telfeian, MD, PhD
Warren Alpert School of Medicine & Brown University-Providence, RI

Santhosh Thomas, DO
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation- Westlake, OH

Raghu Sudarshan Thota, MD
Tata Memorial Centre-Mumbai, India

Ricardo Vallejo, MD, PhD
National Spine and Pain Center-Bloomington, IL

Narayana Varhabhatla, MD
University of Colorado - Denver, CO

Romanth Waghmarae, MD
Integrative Pain & Wellness- Williamsville, NY
McMaster University
SUNY-UB School of Pharmacy

Rehan Waheed, DO
Valley PainConsultants- Winchester, VA
West Virginia University School of Medicine

Sayed Emal Wahezi, MD
Montefiore Medical Center- Bronx, NY

Dajie Wang, MD
Jefferson Pain Center
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA

Bradley W. Wargo, DO
Crosstown Back and Pain Institute, PC-Memphis, TN

Arthur S. Watanabe, MD
Spinal Diagnostics Associates- Liberty Lake, WA

Naveed Yousuf, MD
Bloomington Radiology, SC- Normal, IL

Sherif Zaky, MD, PhD
Firelands Physicians Group- Westlake, OH
Ohio University



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