WIP COUNCIL
President WIP
Chair: Ricardo Ruiz-López, MD, FIPP
Executive Board
Ricardo Ruiz-López, MD, FIPP, Founder and President – Spain
Richard L. Rauck, MD, FIPP, President-Elect - USA
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 – The Netherlands
Craig T. Hartrick, MD, DABPM, FIPP, Editor-in-Chief, Pain Practice – USA
Miles R. Day, MD, DABA, FIPP, 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 Chairs
Diego Beltrutti, MD, FIPP – Italy
Meir Bennun, MD, FIPP – Israel
Teresa Bovaira, MD, FIPP - Iberian
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
Edvin Koshi, MD, FRCA, FIPP – Canada
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
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP - Hungary
José R. Rodríguez Hernández, MD, FIPP – Puerto Rico
Andrea M. Trescot, MD, DABIPP, 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
Registrar
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
Alex Sow Nam Yeo, MD FIPP
Jan Van Zundert, MD PhD FIPP
Conference 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
Adnan A. Al-Kaisy, MB ChB, FFRCA, FPMRCA, FIPP
Ray M. Baker, MD, FIPP
Hemmo Boscher, MD, FIPP
Cosimo Bruni, MD
Aaron Calodney, MD, FIPP
Kenneth B. Chapman, MD, FIPP
Eric Cosman, Jr., PhD (Cosman Medical, Inc.)
Miles Day, MD, FIPP, DABA
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP
Lorand Eross, MD, FIPP
Ludger Gerdesmeyer, MD, PhD, FIPP
James E. Heavner, DVM, PhD, FIPP(HON)
Rafael Justiz, MD, MS, FIPP, DABIPP
Chan Hong Park, MD, PhD, FIPP
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP
Prithvi Raj, MD, FIPP
Richard Rauck, MD, FIPP
Ken Reed, MD
Ricardo Ruiz-López, MD, FIPP
Peter Staats, MD, FIPP
Andrea Trescot, MD, FIPP
Jan Peter Warnke, MD
Chris Wells, MB, ChB, LRCP, MRCS, LMCC, FRCA, FIPP
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