BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, ASIPP, SIPMS
Co-Director, Pain Management Centers of America
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
drm@asipp.org
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT
Sudhir Diwan, MD
President
Park Avenue Spine and Pain
115 East 57th St., Suite 610
New York, NY 10022
Tel:646-434-0551
sudhir.diwan63@gmail.com
SECOND EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
Sheri Albers, DO
2178 Morley Way
Sacramento, CA 95864
sla2oz@aol.com
VICE PRESIDENT - STRATEGIC AFFAIRS
Sukdeb Datta, MD, MBA
Chief Executive Officer
Datta Endoscopic Back Surgery and Pain Center
303 Fifth Avenue, Suite 205
New York, NY 10016
Professional Lecturer
Department of Anesthesiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY
sukdeb@hotmail.com
sdatta@gmail.com
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Harold Cordner, MD
Florida Pain Management Associates
1328 U.S. Highway 1
Sebastian, FL 32958
gassdoc@aol.com
SECRETARY
Mahendra Sanapati, MD
Co Director
Pain Management Centers of America
1101 Professional Blvd
Evansville, IN 47714
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Hans Hansen, MD
The Pain Relief Centers, LLC
1224 Commerce Street SW
Conover, NC 28613
hhansen@painreliefcenters.org
FIRST EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
Amol Soin, MD
Ohio Pain Clinic
8934 Kingsridge Drive, Suite 101
Centerville, OH 45458
ohiopainclinic@gmail.com
TREASURER
Sanjay Bakshi, MD
Manhattan Spine & Pain Medicine
115 E 57th Street #610
New York, NY 10022
drbakshi58@gmail.com
Lifetime Directors
Cyrus E. Bakhit, MD
Lifetime Director, ASIPP
Executive Physician
National Pain and Spine Centers
1316 Jefferson St
Roanoke, VA 24016
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
Chairman of the Board & CEO, ASIPP
Vijay Singh, MD
Executive Committee Chair, ASIPP
Spine Pain Diagnostics Associates
1601 Roosevelt Road
Niagara, WI 54151
vj@wmpnet.net
Academic Directors
Sal Abdi, MD, PhD
Medical Director
Anderson Hospital
1400 McKinney St, Unit 1404
Houston, TX
sabdi@mdanderson.org
Jay Grider, DO, PhD
Medical Director, UK HealthCare Pain Services
Division Chief, Pain and Regional Anesthesia
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
University of Kentucky
800 Rose Street N-201
Lexington, KY 40536
jsgrid2@email.uky.edu
Christopher Gharibo, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and
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
cgharibo@usa.net
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
hirsch@snisonline.org
Directors-At-large
Deborah Tracy, MD
Institute of Interventional Pain Management
11319 Cortez Blvd.
Brooksville, FL 34613
tracypain@tampabar.rr.com
Steve Aydin, DO
784 Franklin Ave, Suite 250
Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417
steve.aydin@gmail.com
Ricardo Buenaventura, MD
Pain Relief of Dayton
Centerville, OH
7244 Far Hills Avenue
Centerville, OH 45459
Devi Nampiaparimpil, MD
Assistant Professor
Anesthesiology and Rehabilitation
NYU School of Medicine
315 West 33rd Street #28G
New York, NY 10001
devichechi@gmail.com
Young Physician Directors
Jessica Jameson, MD
Young Physician Director, ASIPP
Helen Blake, MD
Young Physician Director, ASIPP
Kartic Rajput, MD
Young Physician Director, ASIPP
Kunj Patel, MD
Young Physician Director, ASIPP
Directors Emeritus
Ramsin Benyamin, MD
Standiford Helm, MD
Frank Falco, MD
Resident/Fellow Board Members
Yu Chiu, DO
Resident/Fellow Board Member, ASIPP
AMA Delegates
Lee T. Snook, Jr., MD
AMA Delegate
Sunny Jha, MD
AMA Delegate (Alternate)
AMA CPT Advisory Committee
RUC Representatives
Michael Lubrano, MD, MPH, MD
AMA RUC Member
Pain Physician Journal Editor-In-Chief
Alan David Kaye, MD, PhD
Committee on Education and Research, ASIPP
IPM Reports
Alaa Abd-Elsayed, MD, MPH
Editor-in-Chief
Madison, WI
American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP)
Mark V. Boswell, MD, PhD
Executive Director
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
Secretary
Executive Committee
Vijay Singh, MD
Executive Committee Chair, ASIPP
Sudhir Diwan, MD
President, ASIPP
Sheri Albers, DO
Second Executive Vice President, ASIPP
Sukdeb Datta, MD, MBA
Vice President - Strategic Affairs, ASIPP
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
Chairman of the Board & CEO, ASIPP
Harold Cordner, MD
President-Elect, ASIPP
Mahendra Sanapati, MD
Secretary, ASIPP
Hans Hansen, MD
Immediate Past President, ASIPP
Joshua Hirsch, MD
Amol Soin, MD
First Executive Vice President, ASIPP
Sanjay Bakshi, MD
Treasurer, ASIPP
Past Presidents
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
1999-2005
David S. Kloth, MD
2005
Vijay Singh, MD
2006
Andrea Trescot, MD
200
David M. Schultz, MD
2008
Ramsin Benyamin, MD
2009
Allan Parr, MD
2010
Stan Helm, 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 Hansen, MD
2018