Board / Organizers

Executive Board

Craig T. Hartrick, MD, FIPP, President – USA

Giustino Varrassi, MD, PhD, FIPP, President-elect – Italy

Kris C. P. Vissers, MD, PhD, FIPP, Immediate Past President – The Netherlands 
Athina Vadalouca, MD, PhD, FIPP, Honorary Secretary – Greece

Jan Van Zundert, MD, PhD, FIPP, Chair, Honorary Treasurer – Belgium

Peter S. Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP, Chair, Board of Examination – USA

Muhammad H. Ather, MBBS, DA, FFARCSI, FRCA, FIPP, FFPMRCA, Chair, Board of Sections – UK 
Richard L. Rauck, MD FIPP, Past President and Chair Advisory Board – USA

Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP, Founder and Past President – Turkey 
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP, Founder and Past President – USA

Ricardo Ruiz-López, MD, FIPP, Founder and Past President – Spain 
Bert Joosten, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, PAIN Practice – Netherlands 
Dianne L. Willard, Executive Officer – USA

Section Chairs

Mert Akbas, MD, FIPP - Turkey 
Javier de Andres Ares, MD, FIPP - Iberian

Meir Bennun, MD, FIPP – Israel

Honorio T. Benzon, MD, DABPM, FIPP – USA

Alan Berkman, MBChB, DA(SA), FRCPC, FIPP, CIPS – Canada

Arun Bhaskar, MBBS, FRCA, FFPMRCA, FFICM, FIPP – UK

Peter G. Courtney, MBBS, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA, MMed(Pain), DipAAPM, FIPP - Australia 
Pasquale De Negri, MD, FIPP – Italy

Pauline Du Plessis, MD, FRCA, FIPP – Africa

Mohieddin Fasihi-Harandi, MD, FIPP - Iran 
Juan Carlos Flores, MD, FIPP – Latin America

Ludger Gerdesmeyer, MD, FIPP – Central-Eastern Europe

Carlos Guerrero, MD, FIPP – Colombia

Dominic Hegarty, BSc, BMedSc, MB, MSc, PhD, FCARSCI, FFPMCOA, FIPP - Ireland

Kok-Yuen Ho, MD, FIPP – SE
Asia
Frank J.P.M. Huygen, MD, PhD, FIPP – Benelux

Magdi Ramzi Iskander, MD, FFARCS, FIPP – Middle East
Irene K. Kouroukli, MD, PhD, FIPP – Mediterranean 
Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD, FIPP – South Korea

Chia-Shiang Sean Lin, MD, FIPP - Taiwan

Karthic Babu Natarajan, MBBS, MD, FIPP - India

Lucian M. Macrea, MD, FIPP – Switzerland 
Muralitharan Perumal, MD, FIPP - Malaysia

Edit Racz, MD, FIPP - Hungary

José R. Rodríguez Hernández, MD, FIPP – Puerto Rico

Lucio Cesar Hott Silva, MD, FIPP – Brazil 

Board of Examination

Chair

Peter S. Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP

Liaison to WIP

Kris Vissers, MD, PhD, FIPP

Registrar

Monique Steegers, MD, PhD, FIPP

Vice-Chair for CIPS

Michael Gofeld, MD, FIPP, CIPS

Vice-Chair for FIPP

Frank Huygen, MD, PhD, FIPP

Vice-Chair for Training & Certification

Eric Wilson, Mb, BCh, FIPP

Directors

Fabricio Dias Assis, MD, FIPP
Nicholas Chua Hai Liang, MD, FIPP

An Liong Liem, MD, FIPP
Milan Stojanovic, MD, FIPP

Psychometrician

Gerald A. Rosen, MA EdD

Congress Organizers

Program Director

Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP

Co-Directors

Miles Day, MD, FIPP
Adnan Al-Kaisy, MB, ChB, FRCA, FFPMRCA, FIPP
Ira Fox, MD, FIPP
Aaron Calodney, MD, FIPP
Andrea Trescot, MD, FIPP
Peter Staats, MD, FIPP

Local Arrangement Committee

Edit Racz, MD, FIPP

Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP, CIPS

Lorand Eross, MD, PhD, FIPP

Scientific Planning Committee

Adnan Al-Kaisy, MB, ChB, FRCA, FFPMRCA, FIPP
Miles Day, MD, FIPP, DABA
Fabricio Dias Assis, MD, FIPP
Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD, FIPP
Aaron Calodney, MD, FIPP, DABIPP
Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD, FIPP
Peter Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP

Laboratory Committee

Director

Miles Day, MD, FIPP

Workshop Co-Directors

Kenneth B. Chapman, MD, FIPP
Vikram B. Patel, MD, FIPP
Yong-Chul Kim, MD, PhD

Technical Director

D. Mark Tolliver, MA (USA)

Ultrasound Section, Scientific Planning Committee

Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP, CIPS (Hungary-USA)
Thiago Nouer, MD, CIPS (Brazil)

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