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, DABIPP, FIPP, Founder & Immediate Past President - USA
P. Prithvi Raj, MD, DABPM, DABIPP, FIPP, Founder & Past President - USA
Philip M. Finch, MBBS, DRCOG, FFPMANZCA, FIPP, Honorary Secretary - Australia
Richard L. Rauck, MD, FIPP, Honorary Treasurer - USA
Charles A. Gauci, MD, 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, Member-at-Large, Chairman, FIPP Examination Board - USA
Giustino A. Varrassi, MD, PhD, FIPP, Member-at-Large, Chairman, Advisory Board - Italy
Patrick R. McGowan, MBChB, FRCA, FIPP, FFPMRCA, Member-at-Large - UK
Dianne L. Willard, Executive Officer/Secretary to the Board - USA

Section Chairmen

Muhammad Ather, MD, FRCA, FFARCSI, FIPP, FFPMRCA – UK- Éire
Meir Bennun, MD, FIPP - Israel
Peter Courtney, MBBS, FFARACS, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA, FIPP - Australia
Gautam Das, MD, FIPP - India, Iran & Pakistan
Neels de Villiers, MD, FRCA, FIPP - Africa
Fabrício Dias Assis, MD, FIPP, Co-Chairman - Latin America
Juan Carlos Flores, MD, FIPP, Co-Chairman – Latin America
Magdi Iskander, MD, FFARCS, FIPP – Middle East
Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD, FIPP - Korea/Japan/China
Leland Lou, MD, FIPP - USA
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
Jan Van Zundert, MD, PhD, FIPP – Belgium
Giustino A. Varrassi, MD, PhD, FIPP - Mediterranean
Alex Sow Nam Yeo, MD, PhD, FIPP - Singapore

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 PhD, FIPP

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