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WORK EXPERIENCE 2017-2021 Pain Specialists of America, Austin, TX VP Business Development 1995-Present Central Texas Pain Institute, P.A., Austin, TX Medical Director 2014-2017 Ambulatory Surgery Center of Killeen, LLC, Killeen, TX Medical Director 2013-2017 Medstar Anesthesia, Austin, TX Medical Director 2007-2017 The Pain Relief SurgiCenter, Austin, TX Medical Director POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING 1995 Pain Management Fellowship Gabor Racz M.D., Chairman Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 1994 Harvard Pain Management Fellowship Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 1992-1993 Residency in Anesthesiology State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY CA-III Pain Management Mark J. Lema M.D., Director Roswell Park Cancer Institute State University of New York at Buffalo/N.I.H., Buffalo, NY 1993 Administrative Chief Resident, Anesthesiology State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo NY 1990-1991 Residency in Anesthesiology Western Reserve Care System, Youngstown, OH 1998-1990 Residency in General Surgery Western Reserve Care System, Youngstown, OH MEDICAL SCHOOL 1989 Dayanand Medical College and Hospitals Medical Doctor Punjab, India NATIONAL COMMITTEES 1998-2000 Chair, CPT/RUC Advisory Committee American Academy of Pain Medicine to AMA and HCFA 1995-1996 Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee American Society of Regional Anesthesia 1994-2001 Committee on Pain Management American Society of Anesthesiologist 1994 Secretary, ASA Residents Governing Council American Society of Anesthesiologists 1994 Chair, Residents Section American Society of Regional Anesthesia NATIONAL PRESENTATIONS 1999-2003 Guest Faculty, Sixteenth Annual Symposium – 1999 Seventeenth Annual Symposium – 2000 Eighteenth Annual Symposium – 2001 Nineteenth Annual Symposium – 2002 Twentieth Annual Symposium – 2003 Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Texas Pain Society World Pain Society, Lubbock, TX 2000-2003 Presenter, Texas Medical Association, Third Annual Oncology Conference Dallas, TX Presenter, Texas Medical Association, Fourth Annual Oncology Conference Corpus Christi, TX Presenter, Texas Medical Association, Fifth Annual Oncology Conference Austin, TX 1999 Faculty Member, AMA CPT Advisory Committee Representative, American Academy of Pain Medicine to AMA and HCFA CPT 2000 Coding Symposium – Pain Medicine, Chicago, IL 1995 Guest Faculty Speaker, Annual Meeting American Society of Regional Anesthesia 1995 Abstract Presentation, Annual Meeting American Society of Anesthesiologists 1994 Speech, Board of Directors American Society of Regional Anesthesia, Chicago, IL EDITORIAL BOARD 1995-2001 American Society of Regional Anesthesia Editorial Committee 1994 American Society of Regional Anesthesia Resident Advisor, Newsletter PUBLICATIONS Author, Book Review: Pain Relief & Anesthesia in Childbirth Reg. Anesthesia; Volume 20. 1995 1st Author: Chapter on Dibucaine: Essence of Anesthesia Practice; Roizen 1st Author: Multiple Epidural Abcesses and Spinal Anesthesia in Diabetics Reg. Anesthesia; 1994 1st Author: Anaphylaxis to Succinylcholine During second Administration (submitted) 1st Author: Raised Intracranial Pressure and Sudden Cardiac Arrest (submitted) Author: The Proliferation of Pain Management, American Society of Anesthesiologists Newsletter; March 1994 Author: Representation of Resident Components, American Society of Anesthesiologists Newsletter; May 1994 Author: The Proliferation of Pain Management, American Society of Regional Anesthesia Newsletter; May 1994 1st Author: Substance Abuse and the Impaired Physician: Policy, NYSSA Journal, Sphere; April 1994 APPOINTMENTS 1995 Clinical Fellow, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 1994 Clinical Fellow in Anesthesia, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 1994 Resident Member, ASA Residents Committee on Substance Abuse 1994 Resident Delegate, House of Delegates American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting 1992-1993 Associate Clinical Instructor in Anesthesiology SUNY at Buffalo, NY, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences 1993 Administrative Chief Resident, Anesthesiology Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Roswell Park, NY 1993 Program Representative, Resident Section New York State Society of Anesthesiologists 1992 Resident Representative, Drafting of Anesthesia Services Brochure Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 1992 Resident Representative, Nursing Staff In-service Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 1991 Instructor, Advanced Cardiac Life Support American Heart Association AWARDS AND HONORS 1994 Service Award, American Society Anesthesiologists 1989 Medal of Distinction in Surgery 1988 Final Medical Examination Honors 1987 Social Preventive Medicine Exam Honors