Scientific Committee
Gabor B. Racz, MD, DABIPP, FIPP
Miles Day, MD, FIPP
Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP, CIPS
Giuliano Lo Bianco, MD, PhD, FIPP
André Marques Mansano, MD, PhD, FIPP, CIPS
Raja Reddy, MD, FIPP, CIPS
Jan Van Zundert, MD, PhD, FIPP
Local Arrangement Committee
Edit Racz, MD, FIPP
Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP, CIPS
Conference Secretariat
CongressLine Ltd.
Sandra Vamos vamos@congressline.hu
Bea Golovanova golob@congressline.hu
WIP Executive Board
Dominic Hegarty, MD, PhD, FIPP, President – Ireland
Miles Day, MD, FIPP, President-Elect – USA
Javier De Andres Ares, MD, PhD, FIPP, Honorary Treasurer – Spain
Mert Akbas, MD, FIPP, Honorary Secretary – Turkey
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
Monique Steegers, MD, PhD, FIPP, Chair, Board of Examination – The Netherlands
Milan P. Stojanovic, MD, FIPP, Chair, Education Committee – USA
Christopher Gilligan, MD, MBA, FIPP, Editor-In-Chief Pain Practice – USA
WIP Section Chairs
Emmanuel Thobejane, MD, FIPP – Africa
Guy Buchanan, MD, FIPP – Australia
Martine Puylaert, MD, FIPP – Benelux
Andre Marques 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 Andrés Ares, MD, PhD, FIPP – Iberia
Karthic Babu Natarajan, MD, FIPP – India
Said Shofwan, MD, FIPP – Indonesia
Arman Taheri, MD, FIPP – Iran
Tadhg Lynch, MD, FIPP – Ireland
Haggai Sharon, MD, PhD, FIPP – Israel
Giuliano Lo Bianco, MD, PhD, FIPP – Italy
Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD, FIPP – South Korea
Ricardo Plancarte Sanchez, MD, PhD, FIPP – Latin America
Muralitharan Perumal, MD, FIPP – Malaysia
Irene Kouroukli, MD, PhD, FIPP – Mediterranean
Amany Ayad Ezzat, MD, FIPP – Middle East
José Rodríguez Hernández, MD, FIPP – Puerto Rico
Kok-Yuen Ho, MD, FIPP – Southeast Asia
Lucian Macrea, MD, FIPP – Switzerland
Yu Chuan (Grace) Tsai, MD, FIPP – Taiwan
Serdar Erdine, MD, FIPP – Turkey
Arun Bhaskar, MD, FIPP – UK
Ramsin Benyamin, MD, FIPP – USA
Board of Examination
Chair: Monique Steegers, MD, PhD, FIPP
Registrar – FIPP: Javier De Andres Ares, MD, PhD, FIPP
Registrar – CIPS: Jee Youn Moon, MD, PhD, FIPP, CIPS
Liaison to WIP: Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD, FIPP
Certification Program Manager: Mark Tolliver
