Our 2008 Presenters
 
 
 
Jennifer Bolen, JD

The Legal Side of Pain
The J. Bolen Group, LLC
Knoxville, Tennessee
 
 
 
 
 
David Bryce, MD

Advanced Pain Management
Middleton, Wisconsin
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Wisconsin
School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, Wisconsin
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chester "Trip" Buckenmaier, III, MD

Director, Army Regional Anesthesia & Pain Management Initiative
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, D.C.
 
 
 
 
 
Allen W. Burton, MD

Professor, Section Chief of Cancer Pain Management
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, The University of Texas
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Author of Acute Care of the Cancer Patient and Cancer Pain Management
 
 
 
 
 
Ira R. Byock, MD

Author of Dying Well and The Four Things That Matter Most
Chair, Palliative Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
Professor, Dartmouth Medical School, Departments of Anesthesiology and Community and Family Medicine
Director of Palliative Medicine
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, New Hampshire
 
 
 
 
 
Margaret Caudill-Slosberg, MD, PhD

Author of Managing Pain Before It Manages You
Adjunct Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine
Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, New Hampshire
Critical Access Hospital Consultant
Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care
Montpelier, Vermont
 
 
 
 
 
Michael E. Clark, PhD

Chair, VA National Polytrauma Pain Subcommittee
Member, VA National Pain Management Coordinating Committee
Clinical Director, Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program
James A. Haley VA Hospital
Tampa, Florida
 
 
 
 
 
 
Stephen Cohen, MD

Associate Professor & Director of Medical Education
Division of Pain Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Colonel, US Army
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, D.C.
 
 
 
 
 
Naeem Haider, MD

Director of Regional Anesthesia
The Center for Interventional Pain Medicine
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, Michigan
 
 
 
 
 
John Hansen, MD

Sanford Clinic Pain Center
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
 
 
 
 
 
Francis J. Keefe, PhD

Professor and Director, Pain Prevention and Treatment Research Program
Associate Director for Research, Duke Pain and Palliative Care Program
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
 
 
 
 
 
Robert Kerns, PhD

National Program Director for Pain Management
VA Central Office
Washington, D.C.
Chief, Psychology Service
VA Connecticut Healthcare System
West Haven, Connecticut
Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Psychology
Yale, University
New Haven, Connecticut
 
 
 
 
 
Corby Kessler, MD

Director, Medical Director, Rehabilitation Services
Queen of the Valley Medical Center
Medical Director, Hospice of Napa Valley
Napa, California
Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Vallejo, California
 
 
 
 
 
Mark J. Lema, MD, PhD

Immediate Past President, American Society of Anesthesiologists
Medical Director, Operating Room Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
School of Medicine
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
 
 
 
 
 
 
Geselle McKnight, CRNA, MSN

Deputy Director
Army Regional Anesthesia & Pain Management Initiative
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, D.C.
 
 
 
 
 
Rafael Miguel, MD

Professor and Director Pain Medicine Program
Departments of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
 
 
 
 
 
Steven D. Passik, PhD

Associate Attending Psychologist
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Weill College of Cornell Medical Center
New York, New York
Kirsh KL, Passik S.D.,
"Patients with a history of substance abuse"
In Smith HS (Ed.). Opioid Therapy in the 21st Century.
Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2007, in process
 
 
 
 
 
Richard Lee Rauck, MD

Medical Director Pain Control Center
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Medical Director, The Center for Clinical Research
Medical Director, Carolinas Pain Institute
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
 
 
 
 
 
Edgar L. Ross, MD

Director, Pain Management Center
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia,
Harvard Medical School
Consulting Staff Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Author of Building a Successful Pain Management Practice and Hot Topics in Pain Management
 
 
 
 
 
 
Michael Gofeld, MD, FIPP

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Pain Management Program, Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Toronto, Canada
 
 
 
 
 
 
Heloise D. Westbrook, MD, PhD, MMSc

Director, Avera St. Luke's Pain Management Center
Aberdeen, South Dakota
 
 
 
Our 2008 Presenters