Chronic Pain Expert Witnesses

This highly-qualified expert is a triple board-certified anesthesiologist and pain medicine physician with an expertise in pediatric anesthesiology and pediatric acute and chronic pain. She earned her BS in biology and psychology from Loyola University before earning her MD from Rush Medical College. She subsequently completed a pediatrics internship at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, an anesthesiology residency and a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Washington University at St. Louis, and a pain medicine fellowship at Harvard Medical School. This expert is board certified in anesthesiology, pediatric anesthesiology, and pain medicine. She is active in her field as a member of several organizations, including the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine. She formerly served as a cancer research technical assistant for the Laboratory of Population Genetics at the National Cancer Institute and as an assistant professor in the department of anesthesiology, perioperative, and pain medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Currently, this expert is the director of chronic pain at a university-affiliated hospital in Washington, DC.

This qualified expert earned her BS in computer science from International Christian University in Japan before earning her DO from Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She subsequently completed an internship at Alameda County Medical Center, a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine, and a fellowship in pain medicine at UC San Diego. This expert is board-certified in both physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain medicine, and holds certifications as an acupuncturist, a homeopath, and a massage therapist. For 5 years, she owned and operated Chi Fountain Integrative Medicine, an integrative medicine clinic located in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also has formerly served as a physician of physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain medicine for Comprehensive Spine and Sports Center. This expert is currently based in California, where she serves as a qualified medical evaluator for a government department and as a physician of physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain medicine for a medical group.

This triple board certified expert has been practicing for nearly 20 years. He completed his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Boston University prior to his fellowship in Sports Medicine at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in conjunction with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He has been recognized as a "Top Physician" multiple times by the Consumer Research Council of America, while he has been published in professional journals such as "The Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation" and textbooks such as "Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Musculoskeletal Disorders, Pain, and Rehabilitation." Currently, this expert is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at a major medical university. He is also the Medical Director of a private practice that specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation and regenerative medicine.

This double board certified expert has been practicing for 25 years. He obtained his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, completed an Anesthesiology residency at Columbia University, and completed a Pain Management fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University. Extensively published in the field, he sits on the Editorial Boards of "Pain", "Anesthesiology", "Anesthesia & Analgesia", "Pain Medicine", "Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine", and "Pain Physician", among others, while he is also a member of the Advisory Board of the American Pain Foundation. Currently, this expert is a Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at 2 major medical universities. He has received both government and private funding for numerous studies, including for facet pain, neck pain, sacroiliac joint pain, epidural steroid injections and headaches. He also serves as the Director of Pain Research at a major medical center and the Chief of Anesthesia and Operative Services at another major hospital.

This expert currently serves as Medical Director for a pain treatment physicians group and as Staff Anesthesiologist for three medical centers in North Carolina. He received a M.D. from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and finished a fellowship in Pain Management at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. A member of various professional organizations including the American Society of Anesthesiologists , he serves as a peer reviewer for various insurance carriers related to pain management and anesthesia. He has experience as an expert witness relating to anesthesia and pain management. He also serves as Treasurer on the Board of Directors for a pain medicine association.

This expert is a board certified pain management physician who has been practicing for over 15 years. He is a member of the American Pain Society and the American Medical Association, and has over 50 journal articles published in the field. He is the Chief of Pain Medicine at a major university in California, and he is the author of pain management book, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

This double board certified expert has been practicing for over 10 years. Fellowship trained in Pain Medicine and a member of multiple prestigious professional societies, he is adept at managing intrathecal pain pumps. He is not only an Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at a major medical university, but also the Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine at the same institution and the DIrector of the Center for Pain Management at his institution's affiliated hospital.

This board-certified Anesthesiologist is currently the Medical Director of Pain Medicine at one of the nation's most prestigious University Medical Centers, as well as an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the same university. He earned his MD from Tufts University School of Medicine, completed his fellowship in pain medicine from Weill Cornell Medical College, completed his Anesthesia residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center, and completed his Medicine Internship at Caritas Carney Hospital. This expert is a member of numerous societies in the fields of anesthesiology and pain medicine. He has also been published more than 10 times in the relevant fields.

This highly qualified expert is board certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine and has years of practice. He completed his internship training at New England Medical Center and his residency training in anesthesiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital before concluding a fellowship in pain management at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is the president of the Massachusetts Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and a member of various other professional associations, including the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. He is a former instructor of anesthesiology at Harvard University and the former director of the acute postoperative pain service at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Currently, he is an assistant professor of pain management at a top 5 university, where he also directs the interventional pain service.

This fellowship trained, board certified expert earned his BA from Johns Hopkins and his MD from Drexel University School of Medicine. He completed both a residency and fellowship in Anesthesiology at Thomas Jefferson University. This expert is boarded in both anesthesiology as well as pain management. Formerly, this expert served as Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Drexel University and as the Chief of Anesthesiology at Northeastern Hospital. He remains engaged in his field as member of multiple societies, including The American Academy of Anesthesiology and The American Academy of Pain Management. Currently, this expert serves as a pain management physician in a successful private practice.

This double board certified expert has a BS in Biochemistry from Hartwick College and an MD from Harvard Medical School. He is a member of American Pain Society, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and International Association for the Study of Pain. Previously, he was Attending Anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and currently he is Assistant Professor, Attending Anesthesiologist and Pain Specialist at a major university medical center in NY. His expertise is in acute and chronic pain management, anesthesiology, regional anesthesia, perioperative medicine.

This highly qualified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine expert received her D.O. from Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She went on to complete a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. This expert is board certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Pain Medicine as well as the American Osteopathic Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She is a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She is published in the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She has held numerous high-ranking appointments at major institutions and currently owns a private pain medicine clinic where she routinely administers epidural steroid Injections, nerve blocks, joint injections and other spinal procedures.

This highly qualified expert is board certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine and has been practicing for 8+ years. She completed her internship training at Union Memorial Hospital and both her residency and fellowship training at the University of Virginia. She is a member of various professional societies, including the Maryland Society of Anesthesiologists, the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Her outstanding work as a practitioner has earned her a place in US News and World Report's list of top pain management specialists for 3 consecutive years. She lectures both nationally and internationally and is currently an assistant professor of anesthesiology at a major university in Maryland. She is also the current director of the pain medicine fellowship program and of the Pain Management Center at the same institution.

This highly qualified expert is board certified in anesthesiology and pain management and has been practicing for 15+ years. He completed his internship training at Harvard University and Metrowest-Framingham Hospital and his residency training at Boston Medical Center. He also concluded a fellowship focusing on interventional pain at Beth-Israel Deaconess Hospital. He has delivered lectures nationwide and has extensive experience in treating a high volume of patients with chronic pain syndromes of any origin. Currently, he is a pain physician and partner at a major pain management medical center and the director of interventional pain services at another major medical center. He is also an assistant professor at a major university in Massachusetts.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 10 years of experience in anesthesiology and interventional pain medicine. He earned his BS in physiology and BA in spanish literature at the University of California at Davis before completing his MD from the University of California Los Angeles. Additionally, he earned his Masters in Public Health from the University of California Los Angeles and completed his internship in internal medicine there as well. This expert completed his residency and fellowship in anesthesiology at Columbia University and did an additional fellowship in interventional pain medicine at the University of California Davis. He is dual board-certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine by the American Board of Anesthesiology and is a licensed physician in California and New York. He is a member of many prestigious organizations including the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the American Pan Society and the International Association for the Study of Pain. He has published 13 peer-reviewed journal articles, 6 textbook chapter and a number of abstracts and other publications. This expert formerly served as an assistant professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of California Davis. Currently, he is the director of the Cancer Pain Management and Supportive Care program and the director of the Pain Medicine Tele-Health program at a California medical university. Additionally, he is an associate professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine.

This highly qualified and fellowship trained expert earned his undergraduate degree from Boston University and his MD from Columbia University. After completing his anesthesiology residency, he went on to train under a rigorous fellowship in Comprehensive & Interventional Pain Management. As a result, he is board certified in both Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. Formerly, he held an impressive number of leadership roles as Chairman of Interventional Pain Management and Pain Section Chief in Anesthesiology at Marshfield Clinic. He is active in his field as a member of numerous medical societies including The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and The American Academy of Pain Medicine. Currently, he is an actively practicing pain medicine physician in a private practice.

This expert has been an ever present force in the rehabilitation community since the beginning of his career in PM&R. He entered a four-year integrated program at the Medical College of Virginia in 1985 and became involved from the early in his career in education and research. After completion of his four-year residency program, he completed a one-year fellowship in brain injury medicine. He remained in academia for several years and was involved with numerous grant projects and clinical program development. He then moved on to private practice opportunities while maintaining a unique balance between entrepreneurship, clinical care and ongoing academic achievement. He has pursued several additional certifications given his interests in neurosexuality, impairment and disability evaluation and management, post-trauma pain, brain injury, as well as medicolegal aspects of neurotrauma. This expert holds numerous academic appointments currently serving as an Affiliate Professor in our department as well as a Clinical Professor at the Graduate School of Psychology, a college in NY and Visiting Associate Professor at a University in VA, Department PM&R. He teaches regularly at the aforementioned institutions and has given hundreds of lectures worldwide mainly focused on topics related to brain injury medicine and neurorehabilitation. He became involved early on in his medical career in grant supported research and has remained involved as a peer reviewer of scientific programs, grants and books. He remains, as an affiliate faculty member of our department, involved in federally funded research projects mainly focused on brain injury outcomes and disorders of consciousness. He is a sought after speaker due to the great depth of his knowledge and diversity of the topics he is willing and able to speak on and has an international reputation of excellence in his field practice. Since his training at Medical College of Virginia, he has exemplified what it is to be an educator and has trained many students, fellows and clinicians both hands-on�, as well as in the context of his writing and lecturing about topics involving neurorehabilitative and neuromedical issues in acquired brain injury, post-traumatic pain and neurosexuality. He has been quite prolific with his writing serving as an editor of numerous special issues in multiple journals, authoring or co-authoring well over 180 peer reviewed publications. He serves as a peer reviewer or ad hoc reviewer for close to 20 different publications. Additionally, he has served as co-chief editor of the international, peer reviewed neurorehabilitation journal since 1991 and also as co-chief editor of the official scientific journal of the International Brain Injury Association since 2002. His commitment to education and dissemination is also evident in the many chapters (over 60) and books (8 either as chief editor, coeditor or associate editor) he has been responsible for. He is a member of numerous scientific, honorary and professional societies dealing with his work as a physician focusing on impairment and disability evaluation and treatment, and more specifically, brain injury medicine. These organizations are both scientific and advocacy related. He has held numerous medical directorships over the years and currently serves as the CEO and Medical Director of two successful brain injury related healthcare practices which he started. He has received multiple awards including most notably the first Young Investigator Award given out by the National Head Injury Foundation (now Brain Injury Association of America). He received the Clinical Service Award at the annual Williamsburg conference, the Weinstock award from the Virginia Brain Injury Association and the Shelton Berrol M.D. clinical service award for outstanding contributions to improving clinical services in brain injury from the Brain Injury Association of America. He has regularly been ranked as a top doctor by Best Doctors�. He is also involved with international health care consultation and frequently is asked to serve as a medical expert on brain injury cases. He has also served on innumerable committees over the years starting early in his career as a PM&R resident for organizations such as the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, the National Head Injury Foundation (subsequently the Brain Injury Association of America), the Brain Injury Association of Virginia, the International Brain injury Association, and the American Society of Neurorehabilitation, among other organizations. He along with a colleague were responsible for encouraging the National Head Injury Foundation to change its name to the Brain Injury Association of America and was also instrumental in the merger of the International Association for the Study of Traumatic Brain Injury with the International Brain Injury Association. He served nearly a decade as chairperson of the International Brain Injury Association bringing it from the verge of extinction to a thriving international organization. He also has a historical record of pro bono service to numerous agencies and has served on numerous advisory boards, scientific and otherwise. He has contributed substantively to his field in so many different ways over his 30 year career relative to disability advocacy, lay and professional education (nationally and internationally), support for survivors of ABI and their families, as well as research and dissemination. He is a true example of a clinician who has shown a career long dedication to advancing the field on so many different levels and has become an international leader in the subspecialty area of brain injury medicine and neurorehabilitation.

This expert earned his BS from West Chester University and his MD from Thomas Jefferson University. He went on to complete both an internship and his residency at top hospitals in New York, and his fellowship at the Tri-Institute Pain Management Fellowship, where he trained at New York Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Hospital, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. This expert is board certified in both anesthesiology and pain management. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including Top Doctors in The NY Metro Area in Pain Management as well as Outstanding Anesthesiology Resident of the Year Award from Mount Sinai. This expert has also authored a textbook as well as over 15 book chapters on anesthesiology and pain management. Formerly, he served as an instructor of anesthesiology at Mount Sinai Hospital. Currently, he is an attending anesthesiologist and an assistant professor of anesthesiology at a top university medical center.

This expert joined National Spine & Pain Centers in 2011. He was born in New Jersey and grew up in North Carolina. He is a highly regarded interventional pain physician specializing in minimally invasive spine care. He has served on the physician faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has published numerous articles in medical literature and continues to perform research in pain management. Among his impressive professional achievements, this expert is a member of the following professional organizations: International Spinal Intervention Society American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians Harvard Medical School Teaching Faculty This expert enjoys providing pain management in an honest, kind, and compassionate manner and strives for technical excellence in all of his work. Easing the suffering from pain is his true calling as a physician.

This board certified expert earned a BS from the University of Maryland, summa cum laude, and MD from Temple University School of Medicine. Residency and fellowship training were completed at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine, respectively. He is actively involved in research and is responsible for training and mentoring medical student, residents, and fellows in his clinical practice. Currently, he is a Clinical Assistant Professor, the Associate Division Chief of Education, and the Chair of the Clinical Competency Committee in the department of Anesthesiology, Pain & Perioperative Medicine at a major university affiliated medical center.