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

Harold Cordner, MD
Florida Pain Management Associates
1328 U.S. Highway 1
Sebastian, FL 32958
gassdoc@aol.com
FIRST 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

Amol Soin, MD
Ohio Pain Clinic
8934 Kingsridge Drive, Suite 101
Centerville, OH 45458
ohiopainclinic@gmail.com
SECRETARY

Mahendra Sanapati, MD
Co Director
Pain Management Centers of America
1101 Professional Blvd
Evansville, IN 47714
PAST PRESIDENT

Hans Hansen, MD
The Pain Relief Centers, LLC
1224 Commerce Street SW
Conover, NC 28613
hhansen@painreliefcenters.org
IMMEDIATE PAST 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
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
Pain Medicine Case 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
Immediate Past 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, ASIPP

Mahendra Sanapati, MD
Secretary, ASIPP

Hans Hansen, MD
Immediate Past President, ASIPP

Joshua Hirsch, MD

Amol Soin, MD
President-Elect, 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
2007
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