Scientific Committee
Gabor B. Racz, MD, DABIPP, FIPP
Miles Day, MD, FIPP
Agnes Stogicza, MD, FIPP, CIPS
Dominic Hegarty, MD, FIPP
Peter Staats, MD, FIPP
Fabricio Dias Assis, MD, FIPP
Adnan Al-Kaisy, MD, 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, FIPP, President – Ireland
Miles Day, MD, FIPP, President-Elect – USA
Javier De Andres Ares, MD, FIPP, Honorary Treasurer – Spain
Mert Akbas, MD, FIPP, Honorary Secretary – Turkey
Jan Van Zundert, MD, FIPP, Chair, Board of Sections –Belgium
Peter S. Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP, 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
Kris C. P. Vissers, 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, 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
Pasquale De Negri, MD, 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: Kris Vissers, MD, PhD, FIPP
Registrar: Monique Steegers, MD, PhD, FIPP
Liaison to WIP: Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, MD, FIPP
Certification Program Manager: Mark Tolliver
