President WIP
Richard L. Rauck, MD, FIPP, President - USA
Executive Board
Kris C.P. Vissers, MD, PhD, FIPP, President-Elect – The Netherlands
Charles A. Gauci, MD, FRCA, FIPP, FFPMRCA, Honorary Secretary – UK
Ira B. Fox, MD, DABPM, FIPP, Chair, Honorary Treasurer – USA
Ricardo Ruiz-López, MD, FIPP, Founder and Immediate Past President – Spain
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP, Founder and Past President – Turkey
Gabor B. Racz, MD, DABIPP, FIPP, Founder and Past President – USA
P. Prithvi Raj, MD, DABIPP, DABPM, FIPP, Founder and Past President – USA
Craig T. Hartrick, MD, DABPM, FIPP, Editor-in-Chief, Pain Practice – USA
Magdi Ramzi Iskander, MD, FFARCS, FIPP, Chair, Board of Sections – Egypt
Andrea M. Trescot, MD, FIPP, DABIPP, Chair, Advisory Board – USA
Maarten van Kleef, MD, PhD, FIPP, Chair, Board of Examination – The Netherlands
Dianne L. Willard, Executive Officer – USA
Section Chairs
Anwar Arshad, MD, FIPP - Malaysia
Diego Beltrutti, MD, FIPP – Italy
Meir Bennun, MD, FIPP – Israel
Jianguo Cheng, MD, PhD, FIPP – USA
Frantz J. Cólimon, MD, FIPP – Colombia
Peter G. Courtney, MBBS, FIPP - Australia
Fabricio Dias Assis, MD, FIPP – Brazil
Juan Carlos Flores, MD, FIPP – Latin America
Subrata Ray, MD, FIPP - India
Pauline Du Plessis, MD, FRCA, FIPP – Africa
Magdi Ramzi Iskander, MD, FFARCS, FIPP – Middle East
Edvin Koshi, MD, FRCA, FIPP – Canada
Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD, FIPP – NE Asia
Martin Marianowicz, MD, FIPP – Central-Eastern Europe
Philippe Mavrocordatos, MD, FIPP – Switzerland
Patrick R. McGowan, MBChB, FRCA, FIPP, FFPMRCA – UK
Nuri Süleyman Özyalçın, MD, FIPP - Turkey
Carmen Pichot, MD, FIPP - Iberian
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP - Hungary
José R. Rodríguez Hernández, MD, FIPP – Puerto Rico
Arman Taheri, MD, FIPP - Iran
Athina Vadalouca, MD, PhD, FIPP – Mediterranean
Jan Van Zundert, MD, PhD, FIPP - Benelux
Alex Sow Nam Yeo, MD, PhD, FIPP – SE Asia
WIP Examination Board
Chair
Maarten van Kleef, MD PhD FIPP
Liaison to WIP
Serdar Erdine, MD FIPP
Registrar
James E. Heavner, DVM PhD FIPP (Hon)
Directors
Charles Amaral de Oliveira, MD FIPP
Sang Chul Lee, MD PhD FIPP
Patrick R. McGowan, MBChB FRCA FIPP, FFPMRCA
Alex Sow Nam Yeo, MD FIPP
Vikram Patel, MD, FIPP
Neels de Villiers, MD,FIPP
Jan Van Zundert, MD PhD FIPP
Congress Organizers
Program Director
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
Co-Director
James E. Heavner, DVM, PhD, FIPP (Hon)
Local Arrangement Committee
Chair: Edit Racz, MD, FIPP
Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP
Lorand Eross, MD PhD, FIPP
Faculty
Mert Akbas, MD, FIPP (Turkey)
Adnan A. Al-Kaisy, MB ChB, FFRCA, FPMRCA, FIPP (UK)
Javier de Andres, MD, FIPP (Spain)
Jose de Andres, MD, FIPP (Spain)
Hemmo Bosscher, MD, FIPP (USA)
Aaron Calodney, MD, FIPP (USA)
Kenneth B. Chapman, MD, FIPP (USA)
Eric Cosman, Jr., PhD (USA)
Miles Day, MD, FIPP (USA)
Sudhir Diwan, MD, FIPP (USA)
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP (Turkey)
Lorand Eross, MD, FIPP (Hungary)
Juan Carlos Flores, MD, FIPP (Argentina)
Ira Fox, MD, FIPP (USA)
Ludger Gerdesmeyer, MD, PhD, FIPP (Germany)
James E. Heavner, DVM, PhD, FIPP(HON) (USA)
Rafael Justiz, MD, MS, FIPP, DABIPP (USA)
Sang Chul Lee, MD, FIPP (South Korea)
John Nelson, MD, FIPP (USA)
Carl Noe, MD, FIPP (USA)
Laura Tyler Perryman, MS, MBA (USA)
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP (Hungary)
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP (USA)
P. Prithvi Raj, MD, FIPP (USA)
Richard L. Rauck, MD, FIPP (USA)
Ricardo Ruiz-López, MD, FIPP (Spain)
Matthew Rupert, MD, FIPP (USA)
Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP (Hungary)
Andrea M. Trescot, MD, FIPP (USA)
Maarten van Kleef, MD, FIPP (The Netherlands)
Kris Vissers, MD, FIPP (The Netherlands)
Jan Peter Warnke, MD (Germany)
Chris Wells, MD, FIPP (UK)
Technical Speaker
St. Jude
Stimwave Technologies, Inc.
Boston Scientific
Medtronic
Cosman
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