Section Editors

Section I: Basic Applications- Mark J. Lema, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute

State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine

Buffalo, New York

Section II: Head and Neck Injections- Sudhir Diwan MD, DABIPP, FIPP

Executive Director

Manhattan Spine and Pain Medicine

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Attending, Lenox Hill Hospital

New York, New York

Section III: Spinal Interventions- Vikram B. Patel, MD, FIPP, DABIPP

Director, Phoenix Interventional Center for Advanced Learning

Algonquin, Illinois

Section IV: Sympathetic Blocks- Andrea Trescot, MD, ABIPP, FIPP

Medical Director

Pain and Headache Center

Wasilla, Anchorage, Kenai, Alaska

Section V: Musculoskeletal Injections- Vijay Vad, MD

Assistant Professor

Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine

Weill Cornell Medical College

Hospital for Special Surgery

New York, New York

Section VI: Peripheral Nerve Blocks- Christopher Gharibo, MD

Associate Professor

Department of Anesthesiology and Orthopedics

New York University School of Medicine

New York, New York

Section VII: Intrathecal Drug Delivery- Peter S. Staats, MD, and MBA

Adjunct Associate Professor

Johns Hopkins University

Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Premier Pain Centers, LLC

Shrewsbury, New Jersey

Section VIII: Neuroaugmentation Techniques- Sudhir Diwan, MD, DABIPP, FIPP

Executive Director

Manhattan Spine and Pain Medicine

Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology

SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Pain Attending, Lenox Hill Hospital

New York, New York

Section IX: Neurolytic Procedures- Rinoo V. Shah, MD

Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology

Director, Chronic Pain

LSU Health Science Center

Shreveport, Louisiana

Contributors

Salahadin Abdi, MD, PhD (Chapter 21)

Professor and Chair

Department of Pain Medicine—Unit 409

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas

Nirmala R. Abraham, MD, FABPM (Chapter 10)

Sycamore Pain Management Center

Kettering Health Network

Miamisburg, Ohio

Gerard W. Abrahamsen, PA-C (Chapter 32)

Physician Assistant, Manhattan Spine and Pain Medicine

Physician Assistant, Lenox Hill Hospital

New York, New York

Marina V. Abramova, MD (Chapter 74)

Department of Neurosurgery

LSU Health Sciences Center

New Orleans, Louisiana

David B. Albert, MD (Chapter 58)

Department of Anesthesiology

NYU Langone Medical Center

New York, New York

Kenneth M. Alo, MD (Chapter 74)

Pain Management, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute

Houston, Texas

Robert Altman, MD (Chapter 58)

Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesia NYU Medical School

Director of Ambulatory Anesthesia Services NYU-HJD

Director Regional Anesthesia Fellowship

New York, New York

Charles E. Argoff, MD (Chapter 8)

Professor of Neurology, Albany Medical College

Director, Comprehensive Pain Center, Albany Medical Center, Albany

New York, New York

Juan Francisco Asenjo, MD, FRCPC (Chapter 54)

Associate Professor

Department of Anesthesia and Alan Edwards McGill Pain Treatment Unit

McGill Cancer Pain Clinic

McGill University Health Center

Montréal, Quebec

Canada

Arthur Atchabahian, MD (Chapter 63)

Associate Professor

Department of Anesthesiology

New York University School of Medicine

New York, New York

Steve M. Aydin, DO (Chapter 64)

Clinical Assistant Professor in PM&R at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, Manhassett, New York

Director of Musculoskeletal Medicine at Manhattan Spine and Pain

New York, New York

Sanjay Bakshi, MD, D.A.B.P.M (Chapter 32)

President, Manhattan Spine and Pain Medicine

President, NY Society of Interventional Pain Physicians

Attending Physician, Lenox Hill Hospital

New York, New York

Attending Physician, Beth Israel Medical Center

New York, New York

Attending Physician, Bayshore Medical Center

Holmdel, New Jersey

Member, International Spine Intervention Society

New York, New York

Robert Balch III, DO (Chapter 56)

Diplomate of the American Board of PM&R

Fellowship Trained and Board Certified in Pain Medicine

Fort Worth, Texas

Marshall D. Bedder, MD, FRCP (C) (Chapter 72)

Director Interventional Pain

Pacific Medical Centers (PacMed)

Seattle, Washington

Ramsin Benyamin, MD, DABIPP (Chapter 39)

President, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians

President, Millennium Pain Center, Illinois

Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Illinois

Honorio T. Benzon, MD (Chapters 26 and 54)

Professor of Anesthesiology

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, Illinois

Michael M. Bottros, MD (Chapter 78)

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Washington University

St. Louis School of Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri

Lora L. Brown, MD (Chapter 38)

Medical Director

TruWell, a new health

Past President, Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians

St. Petersburg, Florida

Michael N. Brown, MD (Chapter 55)

Private Practice

Seattle, Washington

Allen Burton, MD (Chapter 39)

Houston Pain Centers

Houston, Texas

Kenneth D. Candido, MD (Chapters 17, 45, 46 and 77)

Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology

Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology-University of Illinois, Chicago

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center

Chicago, Illinois

David Caraway, MD, PhD (Chapter 65)

Medical Director

Center for Pain Relief, TriState, PLLC

Huntington, West Virginia

Bridget T. Carey, MD (Chapter 12)

Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience,

Weill Cornell Medical College

New York, New York

Ronil V. Chandra, MBBS, FRANZCR (Chapter 2)

Neuroradiology and Neurovascular Surgery, Department of Imaging, Monash Health

Department of Surgery, Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

Kenneth Chapman, MD, FIPP (Chapter 37)

Director, Pain Management

Staten Island University Hospital

Staten Island, New York

Susanti Chowdhury, MD (Chapter 62)

Medical Director, Advanced Pain Management Consultants

Largo, Florida

Harold Cordner, MD, FIPP (Chapter 29)

Florida Pain Management Associates

Assistant Clinical Professor, Florida State University School of Medicine

Sebastian, Florida

Sukdeb Datta, MD, MBA (Chapter 23)

President

Datta Endoscopic Back Surgery and Pain Center

Professorial Lecturer

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Department of Anesthesiology

New York, New York

Samyadev Datta, MD, FRCA (Chapter 34)

Center for Pain Management

Hackensack, New Jersey

Nimish Davé, MD, MPH (Chapter 28)

Kaiser Permanente Southern California

Department of Anesthesiology

San Diego, California

Miles Day, MD, FIPP, DABIPP (Chapter 17)

Traweek-Racz Endowed Professor in Pain Research

Director—The Pain Center at Grace Clinic

Pain Management Fellowship Director

Department of Anesthesiology

Texas Tech University HSC

Lubbock, Texas

Timothy R. Deer, MD (Chapters 67, 73 and 75)

President and CEO, The Center For Pain Relief, and Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, West Virginia University School of Medicine

Charleston, West Virginia

Didier Demesmin, MD (Chapter 33)

University Pain Management Center

Somerset, New Jersey

Sudhir Diwan, MD, DABIPP, FIPP (Chapters 9, 10, 26, 28, 31, 37, 46, 49, 65 and 69)

Executive Director, Manhattan Spine

and Pain Medicine

Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology

SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Pain Attending, Lenox Hill Hospital

New York, New York

Lisa Doan, MD (Chapter 58)

Department of Anesthesiology

NYU Langone Medical Center

New York, New York

Raj Doshi, MD (Chapter 21)

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical

Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care

Boston, Massachusetts

Christine E. Draper, PhD (Chapter 73)

Spinal Modulation

Menlo Park, California

Richard S. Epter, MD, DABAPM, DABIPP, DABPM, FIPP (Chapter 42)

Augusta Pain Center

Augusta, Georgia

Michael A. Erdek, MD (Chapter 78)

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Oncology, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

Michael E. Frey, MD (Chapter 29)

Advanced Pain Management and Specialist

Fort Myers, Florida

Adjunct Clinical Professor

Virginia Commonwealth University

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Fort Myers, Florida

Christopher Gharibo, MD (Chapters 6, 24 and 64)

Associate Professor

Department of Anesthesiology & Orthopedics

NYU School of Medicine

New York, New York

Scott E. Glaser, MD, DABIPP (Chapter 41)

President, Pain Specialists of Greater Chicago, Board Member, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians

Chicago, Illinois

Stanley Golovac, MD (Chapter 16)

Florida Pain

Merritt Island, Florida

Gail Gray, ARNP (Chapter 62)

Advanced Interventional Spine Consultants

Largo, Florida

Eric J. Grigsby, MD (Chapters 73 and 75)

Founding Partner, Napa Pain Institute, Napa, California; Founder and President, Neurovations

Napa, California

Karina Gritsenko, MD (Chapter 69)

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Regional Anesthesia, Interventional Pain Medicine

Montefiore Medical Center

Department of Anesthesiology

New York, New York

Amitabh Gulati, MD, FIPP (Chapter 57)

Director of Ambulatory Pain

Co-Director of the Cornell School of Medicine Pain Management Fellowship

Assistant Attending

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

Salim M. Hayek MD, PhD (Chapter 71)

Professor, Department of Anesthesiology

Case Western Reserve University

Chief, Division of Pain Medicine

University Hospital Case Medical Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Joshua A. Hirsch, MD, FACR, FSIR (Chapter 2)

Director: Interventional Neuroradiology and

Endovascular Neurosurgery

Massachusetts General Hospital and

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Paul J. Hubbell, III, MD, DDS (Chapter 59)

Southern Pain and Anesthesia

Metairie, Louisiana

Corey W. Hunter, MD (Chapters 46, 49 and 65)

Ainsworth Institute of Pain Management

New York, New York

David Irwin, DO (Chapter 79)

Chief of Pain Medicine

UPMC Hamot Medical Center

Erie, Pennsylvania

Lawrence Kamhi, MD, FIPP (Chapter 19)

Spine and Interventional Pain Management

Warwick, New York

Michael G. Kaplitt, MD, PhD (Chapter 76)

Director of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and Vice-Chairman for Research

Department of Neurological Surgery

Weill Cornell Medical College

New York, New York

Leonardo Kapural, MD, PhD (Chapters 27 and 36)

Professor of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Carolinas Pain Institute and Center for Clinical Research

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Farooq Khan (Chapter 54)

Private Practice

Chicago, Illinois

Carolyn Kim, MD (Chapter 6)

Department of Anesthesiology

NYU Langone Medical Center

New York, New York

Philip S. Kim, MD (Chapter 66)

Medical Director, Center for Interventional Pain Spine LLC

Newark, Delaware

Nebojsa Nick Knezevic, MD, PhD (Chapters 45 and 77)

Director of Anesthesiology Research

Clinical Assistant Professor-University of Illinois, Chicago

Department of Anesthesiology

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center

Chicago, Illinois

Jeffery Kramer, PhD (Chapter 73)

Spinal Modulation, Menlo Park, California

Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology University of Illinois

Peoria, Illinois

Vladimir Kramskiy, MD (Chapter 25)

Director, Ambulatory Recuperative Pain Medicine

Attending, Pain Medicine, Neurology

Hospital for Special Surgery

New York, New York

Mark J. Lema, MD, PhD (Chapter 7)

Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology, Critical

Care, and Pain Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine

Buffalo, New York

Robert Levy MD, PhD (Chapter 73)

Professor of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine Jacksonville, University of Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

Sean Li, MD (Chapter 68)

Premier Pain Centers, LLC

Shrewsbury, New Jersey

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD (Chapter 13)

Medical Director, Pain Management Centers, Paducah Kentucky

Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

Thabele-Leslie Mazwi, MD (Chapter 2)

Departments of Interventional Neuroradiology and Endovascular Neurosurgery

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Neel Mehta, MD (Chapter 69)

Medical Director, Division of Pain Medicine

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Weill Cornell Medical College

New York Presbyterian Hospital

New York, New York

Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD (Chapter 35)

Cleveland Clinic

Pain Management Department

Cleveland, Ohio

Anya R. Myers, DO (Chapter 61)

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine

NYU Langone Medical Center

Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine

Jersey City, New Jersey

Samer Narouze, MD, PhD (Chapter 18)

Professor and Chairman

Pain Management Department

Summa Western Reserve Hospitals

Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Ricardo A. Nieves, MD, FAAPMR (Sub Pain, Sub Sports Med), FIPP, DABIPP (Chapters 52 and 53)

Colorado Spine, Pain and Sports Medicine, P.C.

Fort Collins, Colorado

Richard B. North, MD (Chapter 70)

Professor of Neurosurgery, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (ret.)

School of Medicine, John Hopkins University

Brooklandville, Maryland

Daniel Oh, MD (Chapter 2)

Departments of Interventional Neuroradiology and Endovascular Neurosurgery

Massachusetts General Hospital and

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Sagar Parikh, MD (Chapter 33)

University Pain Management Center

Somerset, New Jersey

Kiran Patel, MD (Chapter 37)

Attending, Pain Management

Staten Island University Hospital

Staten Island, New York

Vikram B. Patel, MD, FIPP, DABIPP (Chapters 4, 5 21, 22, 23, 31, 34 and 37)

Director, Phoenix Interventional Center for Advanced Learning

Algonquin, Illinois

Sheetal Kerkar Patil, MD (Chapter 26)

Clinical Associate of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Jason E. Pope, MD (Chapters 35, 67, 73 and 75)

Director, Intrathecal Therapeutics, The Center for Pain Relief, Charleston, West Virginia

Medical Director, Pain Relief Center

Teays Valley, West Virginia

Joshua P. Prager, MD, MS (Chapter 47)

Director, Center for the Rehabiliation of Pain Syndromes (CRPS) at UCLA Medical Plaza

Immediate Past Chair, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Group of the International Associate for the Study of Pain (IASP)

Senior Advisor to the Board of the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS)

Departments of Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Los Angeles, California

Kanishka Rajput MD (Chapter 3)

Senior Resident, Department of Anesthesiology

Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Atiq Rehman, MD (Chapter 39)

Houston Pain Centers

Houston, Texas

Erich O. Richter, MD (Chapter 74)

Department of Neurosurgery

LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana

Christine Roque-Dang, DO, FAAPMR (Chapter 50)

Director of Physiatry and Attending Physiatrist

Bergen Medical Associates

Emerson, New Jersey

Dawood Sayed, MD (Chapter 9)

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine The University of Kansas Medical Centre

Kansas City, Kansas

David M. Schultz, MD (Chapter 1)

Founder and Medical Director

Medical Advanced Pain Specialists (MAPS)

Edina, Minnesota

Rinoo V. Shah, MD (Chapters 30, 40, 41, 52 and 53)

Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology

Director, Chronic Pain

LSU Health Science Center

Shreveport, Louisiana

Hariharan Shankar, MD (Chapter 3)

Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology

Medical College of Wisconsin

Clement Zablocki VA Medical Center

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Sanford Silverman, MD (Chapter 20)

Comprehensive Pain Medicine

Immediate Past President, Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (FSIPP)

President-Elect Broward County Medical Association

Pompano Beach, Florida

Clark C. Smith, MD MPH (Chapter 54)

Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine Columbia University New York Presbyterian Hospital

Columbia University Medical School

New York, New York

Howard Smith, MD

Medical Director, Palliative medicine

Academic Director, Pain Management

Department of Anesthesiology

Albany Medical Center

Albany, New York

Jennifer Solomon, MD (Chapters 50 and 51)

Assistant Professor

Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine

Weill Cornell Medical College

Assistant Attending

Hospital for Special Surgery

New York, New York

Nancy Staats, MD (Chapter 11)

Advanced Endoscopy and Surgery Center

Eatontown, New Jersey

Peter S. Staats, MD, MBA (Chapters 41, 46, 68 and 80)

Adjunct Associate Professor

Johns Hopkins University

Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Premier Pain Centers, LLC

Shrewsbury, New Jersey

Michael Stanton-Hicks, MD (Chapter 43)

Staff Institute of Anesthesiology

Department of Pain Medicine

Institute of Neurological Restoration

Shaker Pediatric Rehabilitation Program

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, Ohio

Agnes Stogicza, MD (Chapter 48)

Anesthesiologist and Pain Physician

University of Washington

Harborview Medical Center

Seattle, Washington

Anand Thakur, MD (Chapter 80)

Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Anesthesiology

Wayne State University School of Medicine

Detroit, Michigan

Z.T. Traeger, DO (Chapter 24)

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine

NYU School of Medicine

Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine

New York, New York

Cathy D. Trame, RN, MS, CNS, BC (Chapter 10)

Sycamore Pain Management Center

Kettering Health Network

Miamisburg, Ohio

Andrea Trescot, MD, ABIPP, FIPP (Chapters 14, 15, 19, 44, 60, 62 and 79)

Medical Director

Pain and Headache Center

Wasilla, Anchorage, Kenai, Alaska

Amanda Toye, MD (Chapter 27)

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Center for Pain Management

Dallas, Texas

Vijay Vad, MD (Chapter 51)

Assistant Professor

Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine

Weill Cornell Medical College

Hospital for Special Surgery

New York, New York

Gerard P. Varlotta, DO, FACSM (Chapters 24 and 61)

Associate Professor, Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine

NYU School of Medicine, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine

New York, New York

Elias Veizi MD, PhD (Chapter 71)

Assistant Professor

Division of Pain Medicine

Case Western Reserve University

Pain Medicine & Spine Care

Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Ricardo Vellejo, MD, PhD (Chapter 39)

Director of Research, Millennium Pain Center

Medical Director, UnityPoint Methodist Comprehensive Pain Center, Peoria, Illinois

Adjunct Professor, Biology Department, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois

Chief Editor, Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management.

Christopher Voscopoulos, MD (Chapter 7)

Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Seth A. Waldman, MD (Chapter 25)

Director, Division of Pain Management

Hospital for Special Surgery

Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology

Weil Medical College of Cornell University

New York, New York

James Wyss, MD, PT (Chapter 50)

Assistant Attending Physiatrist

Associate Fellowship Director

Physiatry Department

Hospital for Special Surgery

Assistant Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine

Weill Cornell Medical College

New York, NY

Mark Yelle, MD, PhD (Chapter 36)

Chronic Pain Medicine Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Health and Carolinas Pain Institute

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Albert J. Yoo, MD (Chapter 2)

Departments of Interventional Neuroradiology and Endovascular Neurosurgery

Department of Diagnostic Neuroradiology

Massachusetts General Hospital and

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

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