BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, ASIPP, SIPMS
ASIPP Medical Director
Pain Management Center of Paducah
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
Hans Hansen, MD
The Pain Relief Centers, LLC
1224 Commerce Street SW
Conover, NC 28613
hhansen@painreliefcenters.com
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Francis Riegler, MD
Universal Pain Management
819 Auto Center Drive
Palmdale, CA 93551
friegler@upmgt.com
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Sudhir Diwan, MD
President
Park Avenue Spine and Pain
185 Madison Ave. Suite 300
New York, NY 10016
sudhir.diwan63@gmail.com
FIRST EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
Frank J. E. Falco, MD
Medical Director
Midatlantic Spine, PC
139 East Chestnut Hill Rd.
Newark, DE 19713
Clinical Assistant Professor
Temple University Medical School
Philadelphia, PA
cssm01@aol.com
SECOND EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
Harold Cordner, MD
Florida Pain Management Associates
1328 U.S. Highway 1
Sebastian, FL 32958
gassdoc@aol.com
VICE PRESIDENT - STRATEGIC PLANNING
Sanjay Bakshi, MD
Manhattan Spine & Pain Medicine
115 E 57th Street #610
New York, NY 10022
drbakshi58@gmail.com
VICE PRESIDENT - STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
Sukdeb Datta, MD, MBA
Medical Director
Datta Endoscopic Back Surgery and Pain Center
303 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1102
New York, NY 10016
Professional Lecturer
Department of Anesthesiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY
sukdeb@hotmail.com
sdatta@gmail.com
SECRETARY
Bradley Wargo, DO
PO Box 249
Collierville, TN 38027
dbwargo@gmail.com
TREASURER
Standiford Helm, II, MD
The Helm Center for Pain Management
24902 Moulton Parkway Suite 200
Laguna Woods, CA
drhelm@thehelmcenter.com
Lifetime Directors
Cyrus E. Bakhit, MD
Lifetime Director, ASIPP
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, ASIPP
Vijay Singh, MD
Executive Committee Chair, ASIPP
Academic Directors
Salahadin Abdi, MD, PhD
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
Young Physician Directors
Steve Aydin, MD
Young Physician Director, ASIPP
784 Franklin Ave, Suite 250
Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417
steve.aydin@gmail.com
George Chang Chien, DO
Young Physician Director, ASIPP
Amol Soin, MD
Young Physician Director, ASIPP
Kaylea Boutwell, MD
Young Physician Director, ASIPP
14285 North Outer Forty Road, Ste 360
Chesterfield, MO 63017
kboutwell@prsstl.com
Devi Nampiaparimpil, MD
Young Physician Director
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Rehabilitation
NYU School of Medicine
315 West 33rd Street #28G
New York, NY 10001
devichechi@gmail.com
Directors-At-large
Deborah Tracy, MD
Institute of Interventional Pain Management
11319 Cortez Blvd.
Brooksville, FL 34613
tracypain@tampabar.rr.com
Sanford Silverman, MD
Comprehensive Pain Management
100 East Sample Road Ste. 200
Pompano Beach, FL 33064
sanfordsilverman@cpmedicine.com
Annu Navani, MD
Medical Director, Comprehensive Pain Management Center
Campbell, CA
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Pain
Department of Anesthesiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
3425 S. Bascom Ave, Suite 200
Campbell, CA 95008
anavani@spineandsportsctr.com
Scott E. Glaser
Pain Specialists of Greater Chicago
Burr Ridge IL 60527
sglaser@painchicago.com
Dharam Mann, MD
Garden State Interventional Pain Management
1100 Route 70 West
Whiting, NJ 08759
mannpainmd@gmail.com
Sheri L. Albers
2178 Morley Way
Sacramento, CA 95864
sla2oz@aol.com
Directors Emeritus
Ramsin Benyamin, MD
Peter Staats, MD
Resident/Fellow Board Members
Michael Lubrano, MD
Resident/Fellow Board Member, 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
AMA Delegates
Lee T. Snook, Jr., MD
AMA Delegate
Vikram Patel, MD
AMA Delegate (alternate)
Sachin “Sunny” Jha, MD
AMA RFS Representative
Michael Lubrano, MD, MPH
AMA RFS Representative (alternate)
RUC Representatives
Vikram Patel, MD
AMA RUC Member
Sachin "Sunny" Jha, MD
AMA RUC Member (alternate)
AMA CPT Advisory Committee Members
Vikram Patel, MD
AMA CPT Advisory Committee
Sachin “Sunny” Jha, MD
AMA CPT Advisory Committee (alternate)
Pain Physician Journal Editor-In-Chief
Alan David Kaye, MD, PhD
Committee on Education and Research, ASIPP
American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP)
Mark V. Boswell, MD, PhD
Executive Director
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
Secretary