President

Peter Konrad, MD PhD

Professor of Neurosurgery and Bioengineering
West Virgina University Medical Center
Morgantown, WV
peter.konrad@hsc.wvu.edu

President-Elect

Salim Hayek, MD PhD

Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine
University Hospitals, Cleveland Medical Center
Cleveland, OH
salim.hayek@uhhospitals.org

Treasurer

Julie Pilitsis, MD PhD

Professor of Neurosurgery & of Neuroscience
Chair for the Dept of Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics (DNET)
Albany Medical Center
Albany, NY
pilitsj@amc.edu

Secretary

David Provenzano, MD

President
Pain Diagnostics and Interventional Care
Sewickley, PA
davidprovenzano@hotmail.com

Past President

B. Todd sitzman, MD MPH

Medical Director
Advanced Pain Therapy, PLLC
Hattiesburg, MS
toddsitzman@msn.com

Senior Advisor to the Board 

ASHWINI SHARAN, MD FACS

Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology
Program Director
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA
ashwini.sharan@jefferson.edu

Director-at-Large

Magdalena Anitescu, MD PhD

Professor of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
manitescu@dacc.uchicago.edu

Director-at-Large

Michael Fishman, MD MBA

Interventional Pain Management Physician
Center for Interventional Pain and Spine
Exton, PA
mafishman@gmail.com

Director-at-Large

Bryan Hoelzer, MD

Pain Management Physician
Southwest Spine and Pain Center
Provo, UT

Director-at-Large

Corey Hunter, MD FIPP

Executive Director
Ainsworth Institute of Pain Management
New York, NY

Director-at-Large

Nebojsa Nick Knezevic MD PhD

Vice Chairman for Research and Education
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
Chicago, IL
nick.knezevic@gmail.com

Director-at-Large

Susan Moeschler, MD

Consultant for the Dept of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Director-at-Large

Kiran V. Patel, MD

Director-at-Large

Parag Patil MD PhD

Associate Professor
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
pgpatil@med.umich.edu

Director-at-Large

Ahmed Raslan MD FAANS

Director of Epilepsy and Brain Mapping, and Director of Clinical Operations and Neuroscience
OHSU
Portland, OR
raslana@ohsu.edu

Director-at-Large

stephanie vanterpool, MD MBA

Director of Comprehensive Pain Services
University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Knoxville, TN

ION President

Richard North, MD

Professor of Neurosurgery, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (ret.)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

NANS – INS Liaison

Lawrence Poree, MD MPH PhD

Director of Neuromodulation
UCSF Medical Center
San Francisco, CA
lawrence.poree@ucsf.edu

Executive Director

Chris Welber, MBA

cwelber@neuromodulation.org