President WIP
Chair: Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP
Executive Board
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP, Founder & President - Turkey
Ricardo Ruiz-López, MD, FIPP Founder & President-Elect - Spain
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP, Founder & Immediate Past President - USA
P. Prithvi Raj, MD, FIPP, DABIPP, Founder & Past President - USA
Philip M. Finch, MBBS, DRCOG, FFPMANZCA, FIPP, Secretary - Australia
Richard L. Rauck, MD, FIPP, Treasurer - USA
Charles A. Gauci, MD, FRCA, FIPP, FFPMRCA, Chairman, Board of Sections - UK
Craig T. Hartrick, MD, DABPM, FIPP, Editor-in-Chief, Pain Practice - USA
Nagy A. Mekhail, MD, PhD, FIPP, Chairman, FIPP Board of Examination - USA
Giustino Varrassi, MD, PhD, FIPP, Chairman, Advisory Board - Italy
Patrick R. McGowan, MBChB, FRCA, FIPP, FFPMRCA, Member-at-Large - UK
Dianne Willard, Executive Secretary - USA
Section Chairmen
Muhammad Ather, MD, FRCA, FIPP, FFPMRCA - UK
Meir Bennun, MD, FIPP - Israel
Peter Courtney, MBBS, FIPP - Australia
Gautam Das, MD, FIPP - India, Iran & Pakistan
Neels de Villiers, MD, FRCA, FIPP - Africa
Fabrício Dias Assis, MD, FIPP - Latin America (shared seat)
Juan Carlos Flores, MD, FIPP - Latin America (shared seat)
Magdi Iskander, MD, FFARCS, FIPP - Middle East
Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD, FIPP – Korea, Japan & China
Leland Lou, MD, FIPP - North America
Martin Marianowicz, MD, FIPP - Central & Eastern Europe
Philippe Mavrocordatos, MD, FIPP - Switzerland
Carmen Pichot, MD, FIPP - Iberian
José R. Rodríguez Hernandez, MD, FIPP - Puerto Rico & Caribbean
Gül K. Talu, MD, FIPP - Turkey
Giustino Varrassi, MD, PhD, FIPP - Mediterranean
Alex Sow Nam Yeo, MD, FIPP - Southeast Asia
WIP Examination Board
Chair: Nagy A. Mekhail MD, PhD, FIPP
Co-Chair: Maarten van Kleef MD, PhD, FIPP
Liaison to WIP: Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP, DABIPP - USA
Muhammad Ather, MD, FRCA, FIPP, FFPMRCA - UK
Allen W. Burton, MD, FIPP - USA
Alex Cahana, MD, DAAPM, FIPP - USA
Miles R. Day, MD, FIPP, DABIPP - USA
Timothy R. Deer, MD, DABPM, FIPP - USA
James E. Heavner, DVM, PhD, FIPP (Hon) - USA
Vikram B. Patel, MD, FIPP - USA
Gul K. Talu, MD, FIPP - Turkey
Ricardo Vallejo, MD, PhD, FIPP - USA
Alex Sow-Nam Yeo, MD, PhD, FIPP - Singapore
Jan van Zundert, MD, PhD, FIPP – Belgium
Program Director: Gabor B. Racz MD, FIPP
Co-Director: James Heavner DVM, PhD, FIPP (Hon)
Local Arrangement Committee
Chair: Edit Rácz MD, FIPP
Ágnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP
Lorand Eross, MD, FIPP
Faculty
Adnan Al-Kaisy, MD
Muhammad Alther, MD, FRCA, FIPP
Diego Beltrutti, MD, FIPP
Ramsin Benjamin, MD, FIPP
Mark Boswell, MD, PhD, FIPP
Aaaron Calodney, MD, FIPP
Miles Day, MD, FIPP
Richard Derby, MD, FIPP
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP
Lorand Eross, MD, FIPP
Philip Finch, MBBS, DRCOG, FFPMANCZA, FIPP
Juan Carlos Flores, MD, FIPP
Ira Fox, MD, FIPP
Charles A. Gauci, MD, FRCA, FIPP
Ludger Gerdesmeyer, MD, PhD, FIPP
Craig Hartrick, MD, DABPM, FIPP
James Heavner, DVM, Phd, FIPP (Hon)
Patrick McGowan, MD, FIPP
Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD, FIPP
John W. Nelson, MD, FIPP
Umeshraya Pai, MD, FIPP
Nileshkumar Patel, MD, FIPP
Vikram Patel, MD, FIPP
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
Prithvi Raj, MD, FIPP
Richard Rauck, MD, FIPP
Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD, FIPP
Michael Stanton-Hicks, MD, FIPP
Andrea Trescot, MD, FIPP
Ricardo Vallejo, MD, PhD, FIPP
Maarten van Kleef, MD, PhD, FIPP
Jan Van Zundert, MD, PhD, FIPP
Chris Wells, MD, FIPP