The Association of Pain Program Directors (APPD) has three committees, open to members in good standing. Committee participation enables members to contribute to the development and implementation of new programs and services. Each committee is comprised of a chair, who must be a current or former APPD Board member; one pain faculty member; and two to three trainee members. Members are invited to complete the application process each year, and terms last two years, beginning at the end of the annual meeting held in conjunction with ASRA Pain Medicine’s Annual Pain Medicine meeting.
Membership Committee
Prentiss Lawson, Jr., MD, Chair
University of Alabama
Birmingham, AL
Jillian A. Maloney, MD
Mayo Clinic-Arizona
Scottsdale, AZ
Tolga Sulvar, MD
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL
The duties of this committee are to:
- Track members
- Engage lapsed members
- Arrange website updates on APPD website
- Help develop website content for trainees and faculty
- Connect APPD website with social media platforms
Research Committee
Rene Przkora, MD, PhD, Chair
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Yashar Eshraghi, MD, Co-Chair
Ochsner Health System
New Orleans, LA
Dalia Elmofty, MD
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Saba Javed, MD
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Alan Kaye, MD, PhD
Ochsner Health System
New Orleans, LA
The duties of this committee are to:
- Develop/identify ideas for manuscript submissions
- Can include opinion, perspective, and review pieces
- Identify contributors
- Identify appropriate journal for submission
- Manuscript writing in collaboration with the Educational Committee
- Manuscript submission
- Identify funds for publication fees (via APPD or outside APPD; this may be done before manuscript(s) are planned)
Education Committee
Cindy Chai, MD, Chair
University of California
San Francisco, CA
Anuj Aggarwal, MD
Sanford Medicine
Stanford, CA
Scott Chamberlain, DO
VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System
Las Vegas, NV
Margaret Hsu, MD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Jillian A. Maloney, MD
Mayo Clinic – Arizona
Scottsdale, AZ
Hannah Masters, MD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH
Andrew Ng, MD
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
Philadelphia, PA
Tejinder S. Swaran Singh, MBBS, FRCA
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
The duties of this committee are to:
- Identify topics for webinars/Hot Topics
- Review educational proposals for possible APPD website integration
- Identify educational content for the APPD website
- Manuscript writing as directed by the Research Committee
- Develop an educational curriculum for the website