Board / Organizers

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

FIPP Examination Board

Chair

Maarten van Kleef, MD, PhD, FIPP

Liaison to WIP

Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD, FIPP

Registrar

James E. Heavner, DVM, PhD, FIPP (Hon)
Monique Steegers, MD, PhD, FIPP

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, PhD, 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, FIPP (UK)
Javier de Andres, MD, FIPP (Spain)
Aaron Calodney, MD, FIPP (USA)
Kenneth B. Chapman, MD, FIPP (USA)
Miles Day, MD, FIPP (USA)
Charles de Oliveira, MD, FIPP (Brazil)
Sudhir Diwan, MD, FIPP (USA)
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP (Turkey)
Lorand Eross, MD, PhD, FIPP (Hungary)
Ira Fox, MD, FIPP (USA)
Ludger Gerdesmeyer, MD, PhD, FIPP (Germany)
Michael Gofeld, MD, FIPP (Canada)
Craig Hartrick, MD, DABPM, FIPP (USA)
James E. Heavner, DVM, PhD, FIPP(HON) (USA)
Standiford Helm, MD, FIPP (USA)
Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD, FIPP (South Korea)
Robert Levy, MD (USA)
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, FIPP (USA)
John Nelson, MD, FIPP (USA)
Carl Noe, MD, FIPP (USA)
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP (Hungary)
Gabor B. Racz, MD, DABIPP, FIPP (USA)
Prithvi Raj, MD, FIPP (USA)
Richard Rauck, MD, FIPP (USA)
Ricardo Ruiz-López, MD, FIPP (Spain)
Matthew Rupert, MD, FIPP (USA)
Peter Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP (USA)
Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP (Hungary)
Andrea Trescot, MD, DABIMPP, FIPP (USA)
Maarten van Kleef, MD, PhD, FIPP (The Netherlands)
Kris Vissers, MD, FIPP (The Netherlands)
Jan Peter Warnke, MD (Germany)
Richard Weiner, MD (USA)

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