Welcome New Committee Members!
New committee members started their terms at the close of the 50th Annual Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Meeting on May 4. Please welcome these new members, as well as those who will be continuing service in their roles.
Remember: applications for committee members are accepted in September of each year. Learn more about ASRA Pain Medicine committees here.
Award Committees
John J. Bonica Award Committee
Maxim Eckmann, MD, Chair
Honorio Benzon, MD
Pamela Flood, MD
Anne Marie McKenzie-Brown, MD
Jan Van Zundert, MD, PhD, FIPP
Gaston Labat Award Committee
Sandra Kopp, MD, Chair
Andre Boezaart, MD, PhD, FASRA
De Q.H. Tran, MD, FRCPC
Eugene Viscusi, MD
Christopher L. Wu, MD
Distinguished Service Award Committee
Asokumar Buvanendran, MD, Chair
Andrea Chadwick, MD, MS
Oscar de Leon-Casasola, MD
Colin McCartney, MBChB, PhD, FRCA, FCARCSI, FRCPC
Eugene Viscusi, MD
Excellence in Education Award Committee
Trent Emerick, MD, MBA, Chair
Yian Chen, MD
Tina Doshi, MD, MHS
Vivian Ip, MBChB, MRCP, FRCA
Antoun Nader, MD
Ashley Shilling, MD
Timothy Dawson, MD
Fellows in ASRA Pain Medicine Committee
Stuart Grant, MD, Chair
Oscar de Leon-Casasola, MD
Nabil Elkassabany, MD, MSCE, MBA
Carlos Pino, MD, FASA
Meg Rosenblatt, MD
Presidential Scholar Award Committee
Steven P. Cohen, MD, President
David Provenzano, MD, Immediate Past President
Vincent W.S. Chan, MD, FRCPC, Past President
Chad Brummett, MD
Linda Le-Wendling, MD
CME Committee
Samer Narouze, MD, PhD, Chair
Meg Rosenblatt, MD, Vice Chair
Hari Kalagara, MD
Linda Pearson, MD
Richard Rosenquist, MD
Engy Said, MD
Hariharan Shankar, MD
Jeff Xu, MD
Communications Committee
Rajnish Gupta, MD, Chair
Vivian Ip, MBChB, FRCA, Chair - Newsletter
Alicia Warlick, MD, Vice-Chair - Social Media
Brett Elmore, MD, Vice-Chair – Website
Vishal Uppal, MBBS, FRCA
Faculty Development Committee
Lynn Kohan, MD, Chair
Steven Porter, MD, Vice Chair
Gary Brenner, MD
Dalia Elmofty, MD
Kristopher Schroeder, MD
Vicente Garcia Tomas, MD
Alexander Bautista, MD
Carmelina Gurrieri, MD
Ariana Nelson, MD
Trent Emerick, MD
Jinlei Li, MD
Shalini Shah, MD
Freestanding Courses Committee
Derrick Dillane, MB, BCh, FCARSI
Hari Kalagara, MD, Chair
Stuart Grant, MD, Ex Officio
Guidelines and Regulatory Advocacy Committee
Gina Votta-Velis, MD, PhD, Chair
Rakesh Sondekoppam, MBBS, MD, Vice Chair
Ratan Banik, MD, PhD
Karen Boretsky, MD
Yian Chen, MD
Yashar Eshraghi, MD
Joseph Hendrix, MD, FASA
Jay Karri, MD, MPH
Ireana Ng, MB, ChB, FRCA
Eric Wang, MD
Ariana Nelson, MD
Samuel C. Onyewu, MBChB
Eric Schwenk, MD
Nicole Spence, MD
Ryan S. D’Souza, MD
Industry Relations Committee
Gary Schwartz, MD, Chair
Stuart Grant, MD, Vice-Chair
Aaron Berg, DO
Nicholas Bremer, MD
Jeffrey Grzybowski, MD
Rana Movahedi, MD, FASA
Jeremy Walker, MD
Akhtar Purvez, MD
Eugene Viscusi, MD
Bhavana Yalamuru, MBBS
Membership Committee
Christine Hunt, DO, Chair
Lynn Kohan, MD, Board Liaison
Meg Rosenblatt, MD, Chair of SIGs
Armando Aguilera, MD
Nicholas Bremer, MD
Bradley Budde, MD
Brett Elmore, MD
Stephen Rodriguez, MD
Amanda Toye, MD
Alexander Bautista, MD
Richard Chou, MD, MBA, FACHE, CPE
Iyabo Muse, MD, FASA
Christian Roehmer, MD
Crystal Joseph, MD, RFC Chair
Siyun Xie, MD
Newsletter Committee
Vivian Ip, MBChB, FRCA, Chair
Anthony Machi, MD, Vice-Chair
Rajnish Gupta, MD, Board Liaison
Breethaa Janani Selvamani, MD, Associate Editor, Regional
Priyanka Singla, MD, Associate Editor, Pain
Marcelle Blessing, MD, Associate Editor, Special Projects Regional
Howard Meng, MD, Associate Editor, Special Projects Pain
Engy Said, MD, Associate Editor, Social Media
Mamta Chura, MD
Jeffrey Grzybowski, MD
James Krakowski, MD
Monika Nanda, MD
Hassan Rayaz, MD
Vandana Sharma, MD, FASA
Vinita Singh, MD Kris Vermeylen, MD, ESRA
Carlos Restrepo-Garces, MD, LASRA
Crystal Joseph, MD, RFC Chair
Dalia Elmofty, MD
K. Kwesi Kwofie, MD, FRCPC
Francois Retief, MBChB, AFSRA
J. Balavenkata Subramanian, MBBS, AOSRA PM
Ahtsham Niazi, MBBS, DHCM, FCARCSI, FRCPC, CAS
Claudia Santamaria, MD
Practice Management Committee
Kevin Vorenkamp, MD, Chair
Sandra Kopp, MD, Vice-Chair
Trent Emerick, MD
John George, MD
Jerry Jones, MD
Keith May, MD, FASA
Kristin Powers, MD
Vinita Singh, MD, MS
Suresh Srinivasan, MD
Lee Tian, MD
Beth VanderWielen, MD
Alicia Warlick, MD
Waqas Ali, DO
James Garafolo, MD
Tom Larkin, MD
Sun Mei Liu, MD
Akhtar Purvez, MD
Edgar Remotti, MD
Gary Schwartz, MD
Jeremy Wong, MD
Amruta Desai, DO, MPH, MBA
Prentiss Lawson, MD
Adlai Pappy, MD
Research Committee
Rebecca Johnson, MD, Chair
Anuj Bhatia, MD, MBBS, FRCA, FRCPC, Vice Chair
Magdalena Anitescu, MD, PhD
Mark Bicket, MD, PhD, FASA
Jianguo Cheng, MD, PhD, FIPP
Nick Knezevic, MD
Rana Movahedi, MD, FASA
Julia Scarpa, MD, PhD
Kristin Schreiber, MD, PhD
Rakesh Sondekoppam, MBBS
Alexander Stone, MD
Adjunct Members
Abhijit Biswas, MD
Yun-Yun Kathy Chen, MD
Amruta Desai, DO, MPH, MBA
Kelsey Gustafson, MD
Matthew Mauck, MD, PhD
Soleil Schutte, MD
Matthew Colontonio, MD, Social Media
Pain Abstract Review Subcommittee
Rebecca Johnson, MD, Chair
Anuj Bhatia, MD, Vice Chair
Alexander Bautista, MD
Aaron Burshtein, MD
Anterpreet Dua, MD
Ahmed Elsahy, MD
Catherine Heim, MD
Tigran Kesayan, MD
Jillian Maloney, MD
Matthew Mauck, MD
Bi Mo, MD, MPH
Matthew Moynihan, DO
Tejinder Swaran Singh, MD
Anna Woodbury, MD
Ad Hoc Members:
Ravneet (Sona) Bhullar, MD
Ketan Chopra, MD
Lisa Doan, MD
Praveen Reddy Elmati, MD
Praveen Ganty, MBBS, DA, FRCA, FFPMRCA, FRCPC
Yasmine Hoydonckx, MD, MSc, FIPP
Margaret (Yu-Ning) Hsu, MD
Seung Lee, MD, MBA
Mathew Meroney, MD
Adlai Pappy, MD, MBA
Linda Pearson, MD
Paramvir Singh, MD
Priyanka Singla, MD
Anureet Waliam, MD
Bhavana Yalamuru, MBBS
Hsiangkuo Yuan, MD, PhD
RA-APM Abstract Review Subcommittee
Rebecca Johnson, MD, Chair
Anuj Bhatia, MD, Vice Chair
Adam Amundson, MD
Matthew Colontonio, MD
Christopher Fadumiye, MD
Bright Kim, MD
Sakura Kinjo, MD
Eshel Nir, MD, PhD
Steven Orebaugh, MD
A. Sassan Sabouri, MD
Levent Sahin, MD
Kristopher Schroeder, MD
Danial Shams, MD
Stefan Trela, MD
Ad Hoc Members:
Yun Yun Kathy Chen, MD
Ketan Chopra, MD
Thejovathi Edala, MD
Carmelina Gurrieri, MD
Christina Jeng, MD, FASA
Ireana Ng, MB ChB, FRCA
Samuel Onyewu, MD
Hassan Rayaz, MD
Engy Said, MD
Rani Sunder, MD
Uchenna Umeh, MD, FASA
Beth VanderWielen, MD
Dennis Warfield, MD
Jeremy Wong, MD
Jeff Xu, MD, FASA
Yuta Kashiwagi, MD
Resident & Fellow Committee
Crystal Joseph, MD, Chair
Swathi Rayasam, MD, Chair-Elect
Jaime Baratta, MD, Faculty Advisor Regional Anesthesia
Moorice Caparo, MD, Faculty Advisor Pain Medicine
Social Media Committee
Rajnish Gupta, MD, Chair
Alicia Warlick, MD, Vice-Chair
Armando Aguilera, MD
Matthew Colontonio, MD
Ryan D’Souza, MD
Amruta Desai, DO, MPH, MBA
Nour El Hage Chahade, MD
Zacharie D. Finneman, DO
Vinny Francio, MD, MS
Jennifer Noerenberg, MD
Crystal Joseph, MD, RFC Chair
Martha Bentley-McLachlan, RN, BSN, OCN, PMGT-BC
Jennifer Grimmer, DNP, FNP-BC, PMGT-BC
Engy Said, MD
Danial Shams, MD
Website Committee
Rajnish Gupta, MD, Chair
Brett Elmore, MD, Vice Chair
Mamta Chura, MD
Tina Doshi, MD
Sakura Kinjo, MD
William Manson, MD, MBA
Sudheer Potru, DO
Yatish Ranganath, MD, FASA
Srinivasan Suresh, MD, MBA, FAAP z
Vincente Garcia Thomas, MD
Crystal Joseph, MD, RFC Chair
Kellie Jaremko, MD, PhD
Zacharie Finneman, DO