WIP Council

President WIP

Chair: Ricardo Ruiz-López, MD, FIPP

Executive Board

Ricardo Ruiz-López, MD, FIPP, Founder and President – Spain
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP, Founder and Immediate Past President – Turkey
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP, Founder and Past President – USA
P. Prithvi Raj, MD, FIPP, Founder and Past President – USA
Charles A. Gauci, MD, FRCA, FIPP, FFPMRCA, Honorary Secretary – UK
Kris C. P. Vissers, MD, PhD, FIPP, Honorary Treasurer – The Netherlands
Craig T. Hartrick, MD, DABPM, FIPP, Editor-in-Chief, Pain Practice – USA
Miles R. Day, MD, FIPP, DABA, Chair, Board of Examination – USA
Ira B. Fox, MD, FIPP, Chair, Advisory Board – USA
José R. Rodríguez Hernandez, MD, FIPP, Chair, Board of Sections – Puerto Rico
Dianne Willard, Executive Officer – USA

Section Chairmen

Meir Bennun, MD, FIPP – Israel
Frantz J. Cólimon, MD, FIPP – Colombia
Peter G. Courtney, MBBS, FIPP – Australia
Gautam Das, MD, FIPP – India
Neels de Villiers, MD, FRCA, FIPP – Africa
Magdi Ramzi Iskander, MD, FFARCS, FIPP – Middle East
Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD, FIPP – Korea-Japan-China
Martin Marianowicz, MD, FIPP – Central-Eastern Europe
Philippe Mavrocordatos, MD, FIPP – Switzerland
Patrick R. McGowan, MBChB, FRCA, FIPP, FFPMRCA – UK
Charles Amaral de Oliveira, MD, FIPP – Latin America
Nuri Süleyman Özyalçın, MD, FIPP – Turkey
Mahdi Panah Khahi, MD, FIPP – Iran
Edvin Koshi, MD, FIPP – Canada
Teresa Bovaira, MD, FIPP – Spain
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP – Hungary
José R. Rodríguez Hernández, MD, FIPP – Puerto Rico
Andrea M. Trescot, MD, FIPP – USA
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: Miles R. Day, MD, FIPP, DABA

Co-Chair: Maarten van Kleef, MD, PhD, FIPP

Liaison to WIP: Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP

James E. Heavner, DVM, PhD, FIPP (Hon)
Charles Amaral de Oliveira, MD, FIPP
Neels de Villiers, MD, FIPP
Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD, FIPP
Patrick R. McGowan, MBChB, FRCA, FIPP, FFPMRCA
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

Congress Secretariat

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Faculty

Mert Akbas, MD, FIPP
Adnan A. Al-Kaisey, MB ChB, FFRCA, FPMRCA, FIPP
Ray M. Baker, MD, FIPP
Hemmo A. Bosscher, MD, FIPP
Cosimo Bruni, MD
Kenneth B. Chapman, MD, FIPP
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP
Lorand Eross, MD, PhD, FIPP
Joseph D. Fortin, MD
James E. Heavner, DVM, PhD, FIPP (HON)
Rafael Justiz, MD, MS, FIPP, DABIPP
Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD, FIPP
Liong Liem, MD, FIPP
John Nelson, MD, FIPP
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
Richard Rauck, MD, FIPP
Olav J. J. M. Rohof, MD, PhD, FIPP
Murray H. Rosenthal, DO, FAPA
Ricardo Ruiz-López, MD, FIPP
Andrea Trescot, MD, FIPP
Kris C. P. Vissers, MD, PhD, FIPP
Jan Peter Warnke, MD