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ASRA Pain Medicine Update

Welcome New Committee Members

Apr 21, 2026, 19:14 by ASRA Pain Medicine

 

New committee members started their terms at the close of the 51st Annual Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Meeting on April 18. 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.

2026-2027 Committee Members

 

Awards Committees

John J. Bonica Award Committee

Maxim Eckmann, MD, Chair
Honorio Benzon, MD
Gary Brenner, MD, PhD
Pamela Flood, MD
Jan Van Zundert, MD, PhD, FIPP

 

Gaston Labat Award Committee

Eugene Viscusi, MD, Chair
Andre Boezaart, MD, PhD, FASRA
Brian Ilfeld, MD
De Q.H. Tran, MD, FRCPC
Christopher L. Wu, MD

 

Distinguished Service Award Committee

Asokumar Buvanendran, MD, Chair
Oscar de Leon-Casasola, MD
Colin McCartney, MBChB, PhD, FRCA, FCARCSI, FRCPC
Antoun Nader, MD
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, Ad Hoc

 

FASRA Committee

Carlos Pino, MD, FASA, Chair
Nabil Elkassabany, MD, MSCE, MBA
Harold Gelfand, MD, FASA, CAPT
Stephen Haskins, MD
David Provenzano, 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

 

Communications Committee

Vishal Uppal, MBBS, FRCA, Chair
Anthony Machi, MD, Chair Newsletter
Brett Elmore, MD, Vice Chair, Website
Jennifer Noerenberg, MD, Vice Chair Social Media

 

Continuing Medical Education (CME) Committee

Samer Narouze, MD, PhD, Chair
Meg Rosenblatt, MD, Vice Chair
Christina Cheng, MD
Salim Hayek, MD, PhD
Hari Kalagara, MD
Linda Pearson, MD
Richard Rosenquist, MD 
Engy Said, MD 
Jan Boublik, MD, PhD, Ad Hoc
Vivian Ip, MBChB, FRCA, Ad Hoc

 

Freestanding Courses Committee

Derek Dillane, MB, BCh, FCARSI
Hari Kalagara, MD, Chair

 

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
Mohamed (Farooq) Anwar, MBBS, MBA, Ad Hoc
Meredith Barad, MD, Ad Hoc
Alexander Bautista, MD, MBA, FASA, Ad Hoc
Nabil Elkassabany, MD, MSCE, MBA, Ad Hoc
Brett Elmore, MD, Ad Hoc, SIG Chair
Trent Emerick, MD, Ad Hoc, APPD
Stephen Haskins, MD, Ad Hoc
Enas Kandil, MD, Ad Hoc
Jinlei Li, MD, PhD, Ad Hoc, RAFDA
Bryant Tran, MD, Ad Hoc

 

Guidelines and Regulatory Advocacy Committee

Gina Votta-Velis, MD, PhD, Chair
Rakesh Sondekoppam, MBBS, MD, Vice Chair
Ratan Banik, MD, PhD
Karen Boretsky, MD, FASA
Yian Chen, MD
Yashar Eshraghi, MD
Jay Karri, MD, MPH
Robert Maniker, MD
Ireana Ng, MB ChB, FRCA
Eric Wang, MD
Zheyan Chen, MD, PhD, Ad Hoc
Ryan S. D'Souza, MD, Ad Hoc
Dalia Elmofty, MD, Ad Hoc
Jay Grider, DO, PhD, MBA, Ad Hoc
Ariana Nelson, MD, Ad Hoc
Samuel C. Onyewu, MBChB, Ad Hoc
Kristopher Schroeder, MD, FASA, FASRA, Ad Hoc
Eric Schwenk, MD, Ad Hoc
Priyanka Singla, MBBS, MD, Ad Hoc

 

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
Mohamed (Farooq) Anwar, MBBS, MBA, Ad Hoc
Philipp Gerner, MD, Ad Hoc
Andrew Mendelson, DO, Ad Hoc
Akhtar Purvez, MD, Ad Hoc
Elizabeth Russo-Stringer, MD, Ad Hoc
Eugene Viscusi, MD, Ad Hoc
Bhavana Yalamuru, MBBS, Ad Hoc

 

Membership Committee

Christine Hunt, DO, Chair
Kellie Jaremko, Vice 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
Meredith Barad, MD, Ad Hoc
Alexander Bautista, MD, MBA, FASA, Ad Hoc
Richard Chou, MD, MBA, FACHE, CPE, Ad Hoc
Katherine Cloud, MS, PA-C, Ad Hoc
Nabil Elkassabany, MD, MSCE, MBA, Ad Hoc
Alejandro Hallo-Carrasco, Ad Hoc, RFC Chair
Crystal Joseph, MD, Ad Hoc
Iyabo Muse, MD, FASA, Ad Hoc
Swathi Rayasam, MD, Ad Hoc, RFC Chair
Justin Schappell, MD, Ad Hoc
Amanda Shakal, DO, Ad Hoc
Michael Sposito, MD, Ad Hoc
Reade Tillman, MD, Ad Hoc
Edward Tsai, MD, MBA, Ad Hoc
Siyun Xie, MD, Ad Hoc

 

Newsletter Committee

Anthony Machi, MD, Chair
Marcelle Blessing, MD, Vice Chair
Vishal Uppal, MBBS, FRCA, Board Liaison
Jeffrey Gryzbowksi, MD, Associate Editor, Special Projects Regional
Howard Meng, MD, Associate Editor, Special Projects Pain
Breethaa Janani Selvamani, MD, Associate Editor, Regional
Priyanka Singla, MD, Associate Editor, Pain
Yian Chen, MD
Mamta Chura, MD
Enas Kandil, MD
Yuta Kashiwagi, MD
James Krakowski, MD
Hassan Rayaz, MD
Vandana Sharma, MD, FASA
Carolyn Thai, DO
Ahtsham Niazi, MBBS, DHCM, FCARCSI, FRCPC, Ad Hoc, CAS
Carlos Restrepo-Garces, MD, Ad Hoc, LASRA
Francois Retief, MBChB, MMed, Ad Hoc, AFSRA
J. Balavenkata Subramanian, MBBS, Ad Hoc, AOSRA PM
Kris Vermeylen, MD, PhD, Ad Hoc, ESRA
Alejandro Hallo, MD, MSc, RFC Chair
Swathi Rayasam, MD, RFC Chair
Mohammad Rasouli, MD, Ad Hoc
Claudia Santamaria, MD, Ad Hoc, Early Career
Amanda Shakal, DO, Ad Hoc

 

Practice Management Committee

Kevin Vorenkamp, MD, Chair
Sandra Kopp, MD, Vice Chair
Melody Anderson, MD
Jerry Jones, MD
Keith May, MD, FASA
Kristin Powers, MD
Mohammod Rasouli, MD
Vinita Singh, MD, MS
Suresh Srinivasan, MD
Lee Tian, MD
Beth VanderWielen, MD
Bhavana Yalamuru, MBBS
Waqas Ali, DO, Ad Hoc
Richard Chou, MD, Ad Hoc
Trent Emerick, MD, MBA, FASA, Ad Hoc
James Garafolo, MD, Ad Hoc
Matthew Holland, MD, Ad Hoc
Kevin King, DO, MBA, Ad Hoc
Tom Larkin, MD, Ad Hoc
Prentiss Lawson, MD, Ad Hoc, APPD Member
Frank Lee, MD, Ad Hoc
Sun Mei Liu, MD, Ad Hoc
Adlai Pappy, MD, Ad Hoc, Early Career
David Provenzano, MD, Ad Hoc
Edgar Remotti, MD, Ad Hoc
Elizabeth Russo-Stringer, MD, Ad Hoc
Gary Schwartz, MD, Ad Hoc

 

Research Committee

Rebecca Johnson, MD, Chair
Anuj Bhatia, MD, MBBS, FRCA, FRCPC, Vice Chair
Mark Bicket, MD, PhD, FASA
Yun-Yun Kathy Chen, MD
Jianguo Cheng, MD, PhD, FIPP
Ryan S. D'Souza, MD
Salim Hayek, MD, PhD
Nick Knezevic, MD, PhD
Rana Movahedi, MD, FASA
Julia Scarpa, MD, PhD
Kristin Schreiber, MD, PhD
Alexander Stone, MD
Abhijit Biswas, MD, Adjunct
Yun-Yun Kathy Chen, MD
Matthew Colontonio, MD, Adjunct, Social Media
Amruta Desai, DO, MPH, MBA, Adjunct
Kelsey Gustafson, MD, Adjunct
Luis Alberto Rodriguez Linares, MD, PhD, Adjunct
Matthew Mauck, MD, PhD, Adjunct
A. Sassan Sabouri, MD, Adjunct
Soleil Schutte, MD, Adjunct
Michael Sposito, MD, Adjunct

 

Pain Abstract Review Subcommittee
Rebecca Johnson, MD, Chair
Anuj Bhatia, MD, Vice Chair
Alexander Bautista, MD
Aaron Burshtein, MD
Zheyan Chen, MD
Anterpreet Dua, MD
Enas Kandil, MD
Tigran Kesayan, MD
Jillian Maloney, MD
Andrew Mendelson, MD
Bi Mo, MD
Matthew Moynihan, MD
Elizabeth Russo-Stringer, MD

Michael Sposito, MD

Ad Hoc Members:

Muhammad (Farooq) Anwar, MD
Margaret (Yu-Ning) V Hsu, MD
Praveen Reddy Elmati, MD
Dost Khan, MD
Mathew Meroney, MD
Linda Pearson, MD
Mohammad Rasouli, MD
Priyanka Singla, MD
Bhavana Yalamuru, MD, Ad Hoc

RA-APM Abstract Review Subcommittee
Rebecca Johnson, MD, Chair
Anuj Bhatia, MD, Vice-Chair
Adam Amundson, MD
Matthew Colontonio, MD
Christopher Fadumiye, MD
Philipp Gerner, MD
Bright Kim, MD
Karen Nielsen, MD
Eshel A. Nir, MD, PhD
A. Sassan Sabouri, MD
Levent Sahin, MD
Danial Shams, MD
Ammar Siddiqui, MD
Stefan Trela, MD
 

Ad Hoc Members:

Sara Amaral, MD
Thejovathi Edala, MD
Jeffrey Grzybowski, MD
Christina Jeng, MD
Yuta Kashiwagi, MD
Steven Orebaugh, MD
Hassan Rayaz, MD
Engy Said, MD
Kristopher Schroeder, MD
Rani Sunder, MD
Uchenna Umeh, MD
Beth VanderWielen, MD
Dennis Warfield Jr., MD
Jeremy Wong, MD
Jeff Xu, MD

 

Resident & Fellow Committee

Alejandro Hallo-Carrasco, MD, MSc, Chair, RA/Acute
Swathi Rayasam, MD, Chair, Pain
Moorice Caparo, MD, Faculty Advisor Pain Medicine
Sakura Kinjo, MD, Faculty Advisor Regional Anesthesia
Bhargavi Madhu, DO, Chair-Elect, Pain
Stephanie Ryan, MD, Chair-Elect, RA-Acute


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