WIP Board

Executive Board

Peter S. Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP, President – USA
Dominic Hegarty, MD, FIPP, President-Elect – Ireland
Miles Day, MD, FIPP, Honorary Treasurer – USA
Mert Akbas, MD, FIPP, Honorary Secretariat – Turkey
Adnan Al-Kaisy, MD, FIPP, Chair, Board of Sections – UK
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP, Founder and Past President – Turkey
Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP, Founder and Past President – USA
Ricardo Ruiz-López, MD, FIPP, Founder and Past President – Spain

WIP Special Committee Chairs to EXB

Milan P. Stojanovic, MD, FIPP, Chair, Education Committee – USA
Kris C. P. Vissers, MD, PhD, FIPP, Chair, Board of Examination – The Netherlands
Christopher Gilligan, MD, MBA, FIPP, Editor-In-Chief (Incoming), Pain Practice (USA

Section Chairs

Immanuel Thobejane, MD, FIPP – Africa
Peter G. Courtney, MBBS, FIPP – Australia
Martine Puylaert, MD, FIPP – Benelux
Lucian Cesar Hot Silva, MD, FIPP, CIPS – Brazil
Jordi Perez-Martinez, MD, FIPP – Canada
Ludger Gerdesmeyer, MD, FIPP – Central-Eastern Europe
Adriana Cadavid, MD, FIPP – Colombia
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP – Hungary
Javier de Andres Ares, MD, FIPP – Iberian
Karthic Babu Natarajan, MD, DNB, FIPP  – India
Arman Taheri, MD, FIPP – Iran
Tadhg Lynch, MD, FIPP – Ireland
Meir Bennun, MD, FIPP – Israel
Pasquale De Negri, MD, FIPP – Italy
Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD, FIPP – South Korea
Ricardo Plancarte Sanchez, MD, FIPP – Latin America
Muralitharan Perumal, MD, FIPP – Malaysia
Irene K. Kouroukli, MD, PhD, FIPP – Mediterranean
Amany Ayad Ezzat, MD, FIPP – Middle East
José R. Rodríguez Hernández, MD, FIPP – Puerto Rico
Kok-Yuen Ho, MD, FIPP – SE Asia
Lucian M. Macrea, MD, FIPP – Switzerland
Yu Chuan Tsai, MD, FIPP – Taiwan
Ibrahim Asik, MD, FIPP – Turkey
Arun Bhaskar, MBBS, FRCA, FFPMRCA, FFICM, FIPP – UK
Ramsin Benyamin, MD, FIPP – USA

Board of Examination

Chair: Kris C. P. Vissers, MD, PhD, FIPP

Liaison to WIP: Ricardo Ruiz Lopez, MD, FIPP

Registrar: Monique Steegers, MD, PhD, FIPP