The 2022 Napa Pain Conference Faculty

The Napa Pain Conference attracts the best in interventional pain management, neurosurgery, orthopedics, psychology, and public policy.

The 2022 Faculty continues to expand weekly. Check back for the latest faculty announcements!

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Massimo Allegri, MD, FIPP

Ensemble Hospitalier de la Côte, Pain Treatment Specialist
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Sigurd H. Berven, MD

Professor in Residence, UCSF Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery
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Aaron K. Calodney, MD

Director of Clinical Research, Precision Spine Care
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Amy A. Case, MD, FAAHPM

Lee Foundation Endowed Chair of the Department of Palliative and Supportive Care; Palliative Care Program Chief, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dr. Azem A. Chami, MD

Azem A. Chami, MD

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology,Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport
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Daniel S. Choi, MD, MBA

Lead Physician, Spine & Pain Center of Kaua'i
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David J. Copenhaver, MD

Division Chief, Pain Medicine, UC Davis Health
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Penney Cowan

Founder & CEO, the American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA)
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Annemarie Dedek, PhD

Carleton University, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Department of Neuroscience, Mitacs Industrial Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Maxim S. Eckmann, MD

Program Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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Yashar Eshraghi, MD

Medical Director, Pain Research, Ochsner Clinic Foundation
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Alexander Feoktistov, MD, PhD

Synergy Integrative Headache Center, Founder and Director
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Howard L. Fields, MD, PhD

Founder, UCSF Pain Management Center, Professor Emeritus of Neurology and Physiology, UCSF Center for Integrative Neuroscience
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Roger B. Fillingim, PhD

Distinguished Professor and Director, University of Florida
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Eric J. Grigsby, MD, MBA

Founder & CEO: Neurovations, a Patient Care and Innovation Company
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David Hui, MD

Tenured Associate Professor of Palliative, Rehabilitation, and Integrative Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Hemant Kalia, MD

Program Director, Interventional Spine & Pain Fellowship Program, Rochester Regional Health
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Katalin Karikó, PhD

Co-inventor of the modified mRNA technology used in vaccines to prevent COVID-19 infection
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Lynn R. Kohan, MD

Program Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship; Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Management, University of Virginia Pain Management Center
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Sten Lindahl, MD, PhD, FRCA

Chair Emeritus of the Nobel Committee in Physiology or Medicine
Jeffrey C. Lotz, PhD

Jeffrey C. Lotz, PhD

David S. Bradford M.D. Endowed Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery and Vice Chair of Research
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Zachary McCormick, MD

Chief of Spine and Musculoskeletal Medicine; Vice Chair PM&R
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Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD

Professor & Executive Director, Post-Graduate Advanced Education in Palliative Care, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland
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Nagy A. Mekhail, MD, PhD

Carl E. Wasmuth M.D. Endowed Chair in Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
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Vitaly Napadow, PhD LicAc

Professor, and Director, Center for Integrative Pain NeuroImaging (CIPNI), Harvard Medical School
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Sanjeet Narang, MD

Director, Oncology Pain Management, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Avindra Nath, MD

Chief, Section for Infections of the Nervous System; Clinical Director, Translational Neuroscience Center, NIH
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Monika Patel, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology Division of Pain Management, University of Florida Health
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Parag G. Patil, MD, PhD

Associate Chair, Clinical and Translational Research, Restorative Neuroengineering Group, University of Michigan School of Medicine
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Linda L. Porter, PhD

Director, Office of Pain Policy, Program Director, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes (NINDS)
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Heather Poupore-King, PhD

Director of the Pain Psychology Fellowship, Stanford University Medical Center
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Avinash Ramchandani, MD, MBA

Pain Management, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician, Redwood Pain Institute
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Steven Richeimer, MD

Chief, Division of Pain Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Amy Selinger

Amy Selinger, PT, DPT, OCS

Founder, Back to Life Physical Therapy, Inc.
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Jill E. Sindt, MD

Associate Director of Pain Medicine,  Cancer Hospital HCH Supportive Oncology and Survivorship Service
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Matthew Smuck, MD

Chief of PM&R and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University
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Monica Verduzco–Gutierrez, MD

Professor and Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
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Tor Wager, PhD

Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience, Dartmouth College
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Fadel Zeidan, PhD

Director, Brain Mechanisms of Pain & Health Lab, UCSD