WIP Board
Executive Board
Dominic Hegarty, MD, FIPP, President – Ireland
Miles Day, MD, FIPP, President-Elect – USA
Mert Akbas, MD, FIPP, Honorary Secretariat – Turkey
Javier De Andres, MD, PhD, FIPP, Honorary Treasurer – Spain
Jan Van Zundert, MD, PhD, FIPP, Chair, Board of Sections – Belgium
Peter S. Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP, Immediate Past-President – USA
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
Monique Steegers, MD, PhD, FIPP, Chair, Board of Examination – The Netherlands
Kris Vissers, MD, PhD, FIPP, Director of Certification and Education – The Netherlands
Christopher Gilligan, MD, MBA, FIPP, Editor-In-Chief, Pain Practice – USA
Section Chairs
Emmanuel Thobejane, MD, FIPP – Africa
Guy Buchanan, MD, FIPP – Australia
Martine Puylaert, MD, FIPP – Benelux
Andre Mansano, MD, PhD, FIPP, CIPS – Brazil
Jordi Perez-Martinez, MD, FIPP – Canada
Ludger Gerdesmeyer, MD, FIPP – Central-Eastern Europe
Adriana Cadavid, MD, FIPP – Colombia
Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP, CIPS – Hungary
Javier de Andres Ares, MD, FIPP – Iberian
Karthic Babu Natarajan, MD, DNB, FIPP – India
Said Shofwan, MD, FIPP – Indonesia
Arman Taheri, MD, FIPP – Iran
Tadhg Lynch, MD, FIPP – Ireland
Haggai Sharon, MD, PhD, 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
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP – Turkey
Arun Bhaskar, MBBS, FRCA, FFPMRCA, FFICM, FIPP – UK
Ramsin Benyamin, MD, FIPP – USA
Board of Examination
Chair: Monique Steegers, MD, PhD, FIPP
Liaison to WIP: Kris Vissers, MD, PhD, FIPP
Registrar: Javier De Andres, MD, PhD, FIPP and Jee Youn Moon, MD, PhD, FIPP, CIPS