The Research and Guideline Committee was responsible for developing the guideline. It consisted of the Executive Committee of the Board and all the authors.
Primary Authors: Mark V. Boswell, MD, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Director, Messer-Racz Pain Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center; Andrea M. Trescot, MD, Director, Pain Fellowship Program, University of Florida; Sukdeb Datta, MD, Director, Pain Management Services, VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, TN; David M. Schultz, MD, Medical Advanced Pain Specialists, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN; Hans C. Hansen, MD, Medical Director, The Pain Relief Centers, PA; Salahadin Abdi, MD, PhD, Professor and Chief, Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, and Pain Management, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL; Nalini Sehgal, MD, Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, Medical Director of Interventional Pain Program, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Dept. of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Madison, WI; Rinoo V. Shah, MD, Assistant Professor, Interventional Pain Management, Department of Anesthesiology, Guthrie Clinic, Sayre, PA; Vijay Singh, MD, Medical Director, Pain Diagnostics Associates; Ramsin M. Benyamin, MD, President, Millennium Pain Center, Clinical Instructor, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Illinois; Vikram B. Patel, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Director of Pain Fellowship Program, Dept. of Anesthesiology, Loyola University Medical Center; Ricardo M. Buenaventura, MD, Dayton Pain Med, Kettering, OH; James D. Colson, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine Service, Department of Anesthesiology, West Virginia University Hospitals, Morgantown, WV; Harold J. Cordner, MD, Florida Pain Management Associates, Sebastian, FL; Richard S. Epter, MD, Augusta Pain Center, Augusta, GA; Joseph F. Jasper, MD, Medical Director, Advanced Pain Medicine Physicians, Tacoma, WA; Elmer E. Dunbar, MD, Medical Director, Pain Control Network, Louisville, KY; Sairam L. Atluri, MD, Tri State Pain Management Institute, Loveland, OH; Richard C. Bowman, MD, PhD, The Center for Pain Relief, Charleston WV; Timothy R. Deer, MD, Director, The Center for Pain Relief and Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, West Virginia University, Chairman, Committee on Pain Medicine, The American Society of Anesthesiology, Charleston WV; John R. Swicegood, MD, Medical Director, Advanced Interventional Pain and Diagnostics of Western Arkansas, Fort Smith, AR; Peter S. Staats, MD, Interventional Pain Management, Shrewsbury, NJ; Howard S. Smith, MD, PhD, Academic Director of Pain Management, Professor of Anesthesiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY; Allen W. Burton, MD, Associate Professor, Section Chief of Cancer Pain Management, Department Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine – Unit 409, Houston, TX; David S. Kloth, MD, Medical Director, Connecticut Pain Care, PC, Danbury CT; James Giordano, PhD, Scholar-in-Residence Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC; Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, CEO, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Medical Director, Pain Management Center of Paducah, Louisville, KY
