CURRICULUM VITAE

Of

ROBERT J MENDEZ, D.O.

CAPTAIN, Medical Corps, United States Navy

2956 Adam Keeling RoadVirginia Beach, Va. 23454(757) 481-1117 (residence)(757) 953-3158 (office)

Marital Status: MarriedWife: Janet Guilano MendezChildren: Christine Catherine

Robert Joseph

EDUCATION

College Florida International University BA Chemistry 1981

Medical School Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine Doctor of Osteopathy 1986

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

Internship Portsmouth Naval Hospital Psychiatry 1986-1987Portsmouth, Virginia

Residency Portsmouth Naval Hospital Anesthesiology 1987-1990

Subspecialty Tract Bowman Gray School of Medicine Obstetrical Anesthesia 7/89-12/89Portsmouth Naval Hospital Obstetrical Anesthesia 1/90-3/90Portsmouth Naval Hospital Pain Management 4/90-6/90

Fellowship Portsmouth Naval Hospital Pain Medicine 1992-1993Boston Children’s Hospital Pediatric Pain May-June 1993Harvard Hospital Consortium

LICENSURE

Virginia 0102036928Florida 0S5368

POSITIONS HELD

Medical Director, Pain Management Clinic June 2002 – PresentNaval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va.

Assistant Chairman, Activity Compensation Panel for August 2011 - Present Civil Service Physician and Dentists Pay Plan

Staff Physician November 2010 - PresentNeuroscience Division, Bon Secors Hospital System

Staff Physician 1999 - November 2010Center for Pain Management

Program Director, Pain Management Fellowship August 1993 – October 2006Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va.

Chairman, Command JCAHO Pain Management Standards Committee October 2000 – August 2002Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va

Chairman, Medical Records Review Committee January 1997 – February 2002Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va.

Chairman, Management of Hospital Information Functional Team January 1997 – February 2002Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va.

Assistant Department Head, Anesthesiology May 1995 - July 2000Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va.

Head, Department of Anesthesiology Aug. 1994 - Feb. 1995Fleet Hospital Five, Zagreb, Croatia

Director, Surgical Services Dec. 1991 - Aug. 1992United States Naval Hospital, Naples, Italy

Head, Department of Anesthesiology Aug. 1990 - Aug.1992United States Naval Hospital, Naples, Italy

Head, Department of Anesthesiology March 2003 - May 2003Fleet Hospital Five, Kuwait

CERTIFICATIONS

American Board of Anesthesiology 1991 – Lifetime CertificationRecertified 2009 (voluntary)

ABA Additional Qualifications in Pain Management 1993 – Recertified 2003, 2013

National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners 1987

RESEARCH AND PRESENTATIONS

Beckman WA, Mendez RJ: Cerebellar Herniation After Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Injection. Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 2006;31(3)282-5.

Mendez RJ, Paine,G, Mazzilli MA: Evaluation of the L2 Spinal Nerve Root Infiltration as a Diagnostic Tool for Discogenic Low Back Pain. Pain Physician 2005;8:55-59. Mendez RJ, Eisenach J: Epidural Clonidine Analgesia After Cesarean Section. Anesthesiology1990;73:848-852.

Moran TJ, Little WL, Mendez RJ: Axillary Blockade Utilizing Perineuronal Meperidine: A Prospective, Randomized, Double – Blind Study. Reg Anesth 1995;20:33. Abstract.

Mendez RJ, Little WL: Chapter: Local Anesthetics. The General Medical Officers’ Manual. United States Navy Publication; 1993.

Little WL, Mendez RJ: Chapter: Acute Pain Management. The General Medical Officers’ Manual. United States Navy Publication; 1993.

Mendez RJ, Moran TJ: The Use of Intravenous Lidocaine for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia. American Journal of Pain Management 1997; Vol. 7, No. 1:14-17.

Poster Presentation: New York State Society of Anesthesiologists Post Graduate Assembly. 1996 Annual Meeting. The Use of Intravenous Lidocaine for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia.

Presentation: Society of Obstetrical Anesthesiologists and Perinatologists. 1990 Annual Meeting. Epidural Clonidine Analgesia After Cesarean Section.

Presentation: American Military Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons. 1996 Annual Meeting. The Use of Intravenous Lidocaine for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia.

Presentation: American Military Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons. 1999 Annual Meeting. Axillary Blockade Utilizing Perineuronal Meperidine: A Prospective, Randomized, Double – Blind Study.

Faculty Lecturer, Instructor for interventional techniques, Society for Pain Practice Management Course, October 2004

Faculty Lecturer, Instructor for fluoroscopically guided interventional techniques, Society for Pain Practice Management Course, July 2005

Faculty Lecturer, Instructor for for fluoroscopically guided interventional techniques, Society for Pain Practice Management Course, October 2006

Faculty Lecturer, Society for Pain Practice Management Course, October 2008-Lecture: Current Trends in Neuromodualtion-Fluoroscopic Workshops:1) Spinal Cord Stimulation2) Percutaneous Discectom3) Provocative Discography4) Sympathetic Blocks

Faculty Lecturer, American Society of Regional Anesthesia/Pain Medicine Fall Meeting, 2008-Lectures: 1) Spinal Cord Stimulators – Trouble Shooting2) Basic Fuoroscopy – Guided Techniques-Program Based Learning Discussions:1) Peripheral Neurostimulation: Who’s a Candidate?2) Failed Low Back Surgery Syndrome: What Now?

Faculty Lecturer, Virginia Osteopathic Medical Society, 2009 annual meeting, “Multidisciplinary Techniques for the Treatment of Low Back Pain”.

Faculty Lecturer, Society for Pain Practice Management Course, October 2009-Fluoroscopic Workshops:1) Spinal Cord Stimulation2) Percutaneous Lysis of Adhesions

Poster Presentation at the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine annual meeting November, 2010. Treatment of meralgia paresthetica with ultrasound-guided pulsed radiofrequency ablation of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve.Infusion.

Poster Presentation at the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine annual meeting November, 2010. “The Use of Intravenous Magnesium for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia”

Abstract dissertation at the Annual Meeting of the Texas Pain Society October, 2010. Voogd EP, Mendez RJ. The use of Intravenous Magnesium for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia: A Blinded, Controlled, Prospective Study.

1) Poster Presentation at the Uniformed Services Society of Anesthesiology annual meeting October, 2010. 2) Poster Presentation at the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists annual meeting December, 2010.

Abstract dissertation at the Annual Meeting of the Texas Pain Society October, 2010. Swiber MJ, Voogd EP, McLane JW, Mendez RJ, Thiel RP. Treatment of Uncontrolled Chronic Pain in an Opioid-Tolerant Patient with Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type III by Ketamine Infusion.annual meeting November, 2010.

Faculty Lecturer, Society of Pain Practice Management Course, January 2012-Lectures: Ultrasonography for Sacroiliac Joint Injection

Ultrasonography for Piriformis Muscle Injection-Ultrasound Workshops:

1) Sacroiliac Joint Injection2) Piriformis Muscle Injection

Faculty Lecturer, Grand Rounds Eastern Virginia School of Medicine, Interventional Procedures for the Teatment of Lumbar Pain, April 2012.

Abstract dissertation at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia Annual Research Competition April, 2012. Voogd EP, Mendez RJ, Mazzilli MA, Beckman WA, Moran TJ. The use of Intravenous Magnesium for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia: A Blinded, Controlled, Prospective Study. (Third Place in Category 1A)

Poster presentation at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia Annual Research Competition March, 2012. Swiber MJ, Voogd EP, McLane JW, Mendez RJ, Thiel RP. Treatment of Uncontrolled Chronic Pain in an Opioid-Tolerant Patient with Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type III by Ketamine Infusion.

Poster presentation at the Annual National Meeting of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians June, 2012. Voogd EP, Fowler IM, Moran TJ, Mendez RJ. Spinal Cord Stimulation for the Treatment of Intractable Chronic Functional Abdominal Pain/Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Fowler IM, Tucker AA, Mendez RJ. Treatment of meralgia paresthetica with ultrasound-guided pulsed radiofrequency ablation of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. Pain Practice. 2012;12(5):394-8.

Faculty Lecturer, Society of Pain Practice Management Course, Orlando, Florida, January 2013-Lectures: Ultrasonography for Sacroiliac Joint Injection

Ultrasonography for Suprascapular Nerve Blockade-Ultrasound Workshops:

1) Sacroiliac Joint Injection2) Suprascapular Nerve Blockade

Faculty Lecturer, Society of Pain Practice Management Course, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2013-Lectures: Ultrasonography for Sacroiliac Joint Injection

Ultrasonography for Piriformis Muscle Injection-Ultrasound Workshops:

1) Sacroiliac Joint Injection2) Piriformis Muscle Injection-Fluoroscopy Workshop1) Lysis of Epidural Adhesions

2) Intercostal and Paravertebral Nerve Blocks

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Uniformed Serviced University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland. 1996 - present

Assistant Clinical Professor of Physiatry and Rehabilitative Medicine, Eastern Virginia School of Medicine, Norfolk, Virginia. 2009 - present

AWARDS AND HONORS

Outstanding Military Clinical Investigator for both 1996 and 1999 – American MilitaryOsteopathic Physicians and Surgeons Association.

Meritorious Service Medal

Navy Commendation Medal – two gold stars in lieu of third award

National Defense Medal

United Nations Service Medal

NATO Service Ribbon

Humanitarian Service Ribbon

Joint Meritorious Unit Commendation Ribbon

Navy Unit Commendation Ribbon

Meritorious Unit Commendation Ribbon – two stars in lieu of third award

Overseas Service Ribbon – bronze star in lieu of second award

Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal

Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Service Medal

Global War on Terrorism Service Medal

PERSONAL REFERENCES

Available on request