Editors
Salahadin Abdi, MD, PhD
Professor and Chief
University of
Miami Pain Center
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine
and Pain Management
LM Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
Pradeep Chopra, MD, MHCM
Assistant
Professor (Clinical)
Department of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical
School of Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
Assistant
Professor (Adj) of Anesthesiology
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
Howard Smith, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, and Physical
Rehabilitation & Medicine
Academic Director of Pain Management
Albany Medical College
Department of Anesthesiology
Albany, New
York
Contributors
Salahadin Abdi, MD, PhD
Professor and Chief, Department of
Anesthesia
Preoperative Medicine and Pain Management
LM Miller
School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
Chapter 4, Pharmacology
Ivan Antonevich, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Pain Medicine and Perioperative Care
University of Miami
Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
Chapter 6, Types of Pain
Carlos A. Buxo, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Puerto Rico, School of
Medicine Bayamon, Puerto Rico
Chapter 10, Interdisciplinary Pain
Management
Lucy L. Chen, MD
Instructor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Harvard
Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Chapter 9, Complementary and
Alternative Medicine
Pradeep Chopra, MD
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Department of Medicine
Boston
University School of Medicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
Providence, Rhode Island
Chapter 1, Anatomy
Steven P. Cohen, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of
Anesthesiology
John Hopkin School of Medicine and Walter Reed Army
Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland
Chapter 5, Diagnosis of Pain
States
Alane B. Costanzo, MD
Pain
Fellow
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Harvard
Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Brookline,
Massachusetts
Chapter 6, Types of Pain
Ezekiel
Fink, MD
Clinical Instructor
David Geffen School of Medicine
at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, California
Chapter 3, Pathophysiology
Asteghik Hacobian,
MD
Pain Management Specialist
Interventional Spine Medicine
Barrington, New Hampshire
Chapter 7, Pain Assessment
Robert W. Irwin, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
Miami, Florida
Chapter 15, Rehabilitation
Ronald J. Kulich, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of General Dentistry/Craniofacial Pain and Headache Center
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
Chapter 11, Behavioral and Psychological Aspects of Pain
David Lindley, DO
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Critical Care Medicine and Pain Management
University of Miami
Miami, Florida
Chapter 8, Pain Management
Techniques
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, ASIPP and SIPMS
Medical Director, Pain Management Center of Paducah
Paducah, Kentucky
Chapter 12, Drug abuse and Addiction
Chapter 13, Cost, Ethics and
Medico-legal aspects in Pain Medicine
Chapter 14, Compensation and
Disability Assessment
Muhammad A. Munir, MD
Director
Department of Inventional Pain Management
Southwest Ohio
Pain Institute
West Chester, Ohio
Chapter 5, Diagnosis of Pain
States
Annu Navani, MD
Medical
Director
Comprehensive Pain Management Center
San Jose, California
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor
Stanford University School of
Medicine
Stanford, California
Chapter 5, Diagnosis of Pain States
Vikram B. Patel, MD
President and Medical
Director
ACMI Pain Care
Algonquin, Illinois
Chapter 2,
Physicology
Mark A. Quintero
Chapter
6, Types of Pain
Chapter 8, Pain Management Techniques
Chapter 4,
Pharmacology
Sandra L. Rojas, MD
Pain
Management Fellow
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Miami
Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital Miami, Florida
Andrew L. Sherman, MD
Associate Professor
of Rehabilitation Medicine
Miller School of Medicine
University of
Miami
Miami, Florida
Chapter 15, Rehabilitation
Howard Smith, MD
Associate Professor
Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, and Physical Rehabilitation and Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology
Albany Medical College
Albany, New
York
Chapter 4, Pharmacology
Chapter 5, Diagnosis of Pain States
M. Stojanovic
Massachusetts General
Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Chapter
8, Pain Management Techniques
Ricardo Vallejo,
MD, PhD, FIPP
Director of Research
Millennium Pain Center
Adjunct Professor
Biology Department, Illinois State University
Bloomington-Normal, Illinois
Chapter 6, Types of Pain