Ramsin M. Benyamin, M.D. - Millennium Pain Center · 2015. 2. 6. · 1 Updated 1/9/2014 Ramsin M. Benyamin, M.D. Millennium Pain Center, LLC 1015 S. Mercer Avenue Bloomington, Illinois

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Ramsin M. Benyamin, M.D. Millennium Pain Center, LLC

1015 S. Mercer Avenue Bloomington, Illinois 61701

Phone (309) 662-4321 Fax (309) 661-4815 [email protected]

PRESENT POSITIONS

President & Founder, Millennium Pain Center, 1998 to present Illinois: Bloomington, Decatur, Peoria, Park Ridge, Libertyville, Des Plaines, Evanston

Co-founder, Millennium Pain Management-Teknon, Barcelona, Spain, 2007 to present

President , American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), 2014 to present

Past-President, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) (2009-2010)

Past-President, Illinois Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, (2010-2013)

Executive Committee, Board of Directors, ASIPP, 2005 to present

Board of Directors, Society of Interventional Pain Management Surgery Centers, 2006 to present

Board of Directors, American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians, 2005 to present

Board of Directors, Illinois Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, 2009 to present

Associate Editor, Journal of Pain Physician, 2006 to present

Section Editor on Neuromodulation, Journal of Pain Physician, 2013 to present

Editorial Board, Journal of Pain Practice, 2005 to present

Editorial Board, Journal of Techniques in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Management, 2012 to present

Editorial Board, Journal of Opioid Management, 2005 to present

Member, Guidelines Committee, ASIPP, 2006 to present

Member, Examination Council and Credentials Committee, American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP), 2010 to present

Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2007 to present

Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, 2004 to present

Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, 2014 to present

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PREVIOUS POSITIONS

President, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), 2009-2010

President, Illinois Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, 2010-2013

First Executive Vice President, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), 2012-2013

Member, Council of Pain Physician Societies, 2011-2012

Member, Neuromodulation Therapy Access Coalition, 2009-2011

Member, Pain and Palliative Medicine Specialty Section Council, American Medical Association, 2009-2011

Alternate member–House of Delegates, American Medical Association, 2009-2011

Examiner, American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians, 2006-2009

Examiner, Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice Examination, 2003-2008

Second Executive Vice President, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), 2011

Executive Vice-President, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, 2007

Secretary, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, 2006-2007

Clinical Instructor, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2005–2007

Board of Examiners, World Institute of Pain, Section of Pain Practice, 2005–2008

Chair, Education and Research committee, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, 2005-2007

Faculty, Opioid Management Society, 2005–2007

Faculty, World Institute of Pain, 2004–2009

Research committee, Central Illinois Neuroscience Foundation, 2001–2010

Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 1993–2005

Co-Founder/President, Anesthesiology Consultants, Bloomington, Illinois, 1998–2002

Director of Pain Clinic, Bloomington Anesthesiology Service, Ltd., at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, Bloomington, Illinois, 1997–1998

Director of Pain Clinic, Anesthesiology and Respiratory Care, OSF Saint James Hospital, Pontiac, Illinois, 1996–1998

Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, 1996–1997

Attending Anesthesiologist, Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, 1993–1996

Assistant Director, Instructor, Lecturer, Educational Services of ArcVentures, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, 1988-1989

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2007 to present

Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, 2004 to present

Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, 2014 to present

HOSPITAL POSITIONS

Staff Anesthesiologist/Pain Physician, Advocate BroMenn Hospital, Normal, IL, 1998 to present

Staff Anesthesiologist/Pain Physician, OSF Medical Center, Bloomington, IL, 1996 to present

Staff Pain Physician, OSF-Saint James Hospital, Pontiac, IL, 2008 to 2013

Staff Pain Physician, Decatur Memorial Hospital, Decatur, IL, 2009 to present

Staff Pain Physician, Advocate Condel Medical Center, Libertyville, IL, 2011 to present

Staff Pain Physician, Holy Family Medical Center, Des Plaines, IL, 2011 to 2014

Staff Anesthesiologist/Pain Physician, Unity Point Health-Methodist, Peoria, IL, 2012 to present

Staff Anesthesiologist/Pain Physician, Unity Point Health-Proctor, Peoria, IL, 2014 to present

Staff Pain Physician, Presence Resurrection Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 2008 to present

Staff Pain Physician, Presence St. Francis Medical Center, Evanston, IL, 2012 to present

Staff Pain Physician, The Center for Out-patient Medicine, Bloomington, IL, 2013 to present

RESEARCH POSITIONS

Basic Science Investigator, Illinois State University, Department of Biological Sciences and Millennium Pain Center joint research program. 2004 to present

Basic Science Investigator, Illinois Weslyan University, Department of Psychology and Millennium Pain Center joint research program. 2014 to present

Education and Research Committee Member, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, 2005 to present

BOARD CERTIFICATION

Diplomate, American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians, 2008

Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology, 2001

Diplomate, American Board of Pain Medicine, 2001 (recertified 2011)

Fellow, Interventional Pain Practice, 2002

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Certificate of Competency in Controlled Substance Management and Coding, Compliance and Practice

Management, American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians, 2008

OTHER CERTIFICATION

Protecting Human Research Participants (Certification Number: 922769), National Institutes of Health

(NIH), 2012

Good Clinical Practice Course (Reference #7682650), Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative

(CITI), 2012

Biomedical Research Basic/Refresher Course (Reference #7682651), Collaborative Institutional

Training Initiative (CITI), 2012

Advanced Cardiac Life Support, current

LICENSURE

State of Illinois, #036-085702

EDUCATION

M.D., University of Tehran, School of Medicine, Tehran, Iran, 1976 – 1984

INTERNSHIP

Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences, The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois,

7/1989 – 6/1990

RESIDENCY

Anesthesiology, Illinois Masonic Medical Center (affiliate of University of Illinois), Chicago, Illinois,

7/1990 – 6/1992

SUBSPECIALTY

Anesthesiology Subspecialty Clinical Track: Pain Management, Obstetrics, Cardio-thoracic, Illinois Masonic Med. Center, Chicago, Illinois, 7/1992 – 6/1993

MEMBERSHIPS

World Institute of Pain

Illinois State Medical Society

Illinois State Medical Society

McLean County Medical Society

American Medical Association

North American Neuromodulation Society

American Society of Anesthesiologists

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (Life-time)

Illinois Society of Interventional Pain Physicians

International Spine Intervention Society

Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists

American Academy of Pain Medicine

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BOARD EXAMINER

Examination Proctor, American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP), St. Louis, MO, 2014

Examination Proctor, American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP), Memphis, TN, 2012



American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP), New Orleans, LA, 2009

World Institute of Pain, Interventional Examination for Certification as Fellow of Interventional Pain

Practice (FIPP), Budapest, Hungary, 2008

American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP), Memphis, TN, 2008

World Institute of Pain, Interventional Examination for Certification as Fellow of Interventional Pain

Practice (FIPP), Budapest, Hungary, 2007

American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP), Memphis, TN, 2007

World Institute of Pain, Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice Examination (FIPP), Budapest, Hungary,

2006

American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, TN, 2006

World Institute of Pain, Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice Examination, Budapest, Hungary, 2005

World Institute of Pain, Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice Examination, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2005

World Institute of Pain, Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice Examination, Memphis, TN, 2004

World Institute of Pain, Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice Examination, Budapest, Hungary, 2003

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

Video guided examination and treatment of epidural canal: Epiduroscopy, Southeast Seminars,

Louisville, Kentucky, 1997

Workshop on implantation of spinal cord stimulators: Society for Pain Practice Management meeting,

Kansas City, Missouri, 1997

Workshop on the use of Botolinum toxin in pain management: Society for Pain Practice Management

meeting, Kansas City, 1997

Workshop on Interventional Pain Management injections, Clinical Education Services, Atlanta, Georgia,

2000

Skills Lab for Interventional Pain Management Techniques including Discography and IDET

Annuloplasty procedure, Clinical Education Services, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001

Skills Lab for Interventional Pain Management Techniques including Vertebroplasty and Disctrode

Annuloplasty procedure, Clinical Education Services, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001

Prolotherapy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 2001

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Percutaneous Cement Delivery, a Hands on Course, Education Design, Toronto, Canada, 2001

Phase 3 Cervical Injections Workshop using Cadavers, International Spinal Injection Society, Irving,

Texas, 2002

Certificate in Buprenorphine and office based treatment of opioid dependence, American Society of

Addiction Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 2002

World Institute of Pain, Cadaver Course, Budapest, Hungary, 2002

Workshop on Botox, University of South Florida, St. Louis, Missouri, 2002

Percutaneous Cement Delivery and Percutaneous Disc Decompression, HealthStream Education

Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2002

World Institute of Pain, Interventional Pain Procedures’ Cadaver Course, Budapest, Hungary, 2003

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Review course in Coding, Compliance & Practice

management, Washington, D.C., 2005

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Review course in Opioid & Controlled Substance

Management, Washington, D.C., 2005

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Comprehensive Review course in Pain

Management, St. Louis, Missouri, 2006



Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression, Vertos Medical, California, 2009


Management, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2009


Management, Chicago, Illinois, 2010




Management, San Francisco, California, 2012




Management, Denver, Colorado, 2013

New York and New Jersey Societies of Interventional Pain Physicians, Comprehensive Review course

in Pain Management, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2013


Management, Phoenix, Arizona 2014



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Cadaver workshop on KIVA implanted vertebral augmentation system, Benvenue, Bloomington, Illinois,

2014

Cadaver workshop on Endoscopic Discectomy by Joimax, Baltimore, Maryland, 2014

CLINICAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

A Global, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study Comparing the Safety and Efficacy of ABT-894, Duloxetine and Placebo in Subjects with Diabetic Neuropathic Pain. Sponsored by: Abbott Laboratories

Spinal Neuromodulation in the Treatment of Discogenic Low Back Pain. Sponsored by: Advanced

Bionics, A Boston Scientific Company

Effectiveness of the Precision® Spinal Cord Stimulation System in Patients with FBSS and Axial low

Back Pain. Sponsored by: Advanced Bionics, A Boston Scientific Company

A Clinical Evaluation of the Eon™ 16-Channel Implantable Pulse Generator (IPG) in combination with

two Octrode® (8 contact) leads for the management of chronic back pain with or without neuropathic leg

pain. Sponsored by: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems

A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-controlled, Parallel-group Study of the Safety and

Efficacy of a Single treatment of AGN-214868 in Patients With Postherpetic Neuralgia. Sponsored by:

Allergan Sales Inc.

A Phase IIa, Double-Blind, Randomised, Parallel-Group, Multi-Centre Study to Evaluate the Analgesic

Efficacy of 28 Days Oral Administration of AZD2066 with One-Dose Escalation Compared to Placebo in

Peripheral Neuropathic Pain Patients with Mechanical Hypersensitivity. Sponsored by: AstraZeneca

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of NKTR-118

in Patients with Non-Cancer-Related Pain and Opioid-Induced Constipation (OIC). Sponsored by:

AstraZeneca.

A 12-Week, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind, Randomized Withdrawal Study to Evaluate the Efficacy

and Safety of BEMA® Buprenorphine in Subjects With Moderate to Severe Low Back Pain. Sponsored

by: BioDelivery Systems International

A 52-week, Open-Label, Long-Term Treatment Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of BEMA®

Buprenorphine in Subjects With Moderate to Severe Chronic Pain. Sponsored by: BioDelivery

Systems International

Prospective, Multi-Center, Randomized, Double-Blinded, Partial-Crossover Study to Assess the Safety

and Efficacy of the Bioness® Stimrouter™ Neuromodulation System in the Treatment for Patients with

Chronic Pain of Peripheral Nerve Origin. Sponsored by: Bioness, Inc.

Precision Plus High-Rate Subperception Spinal Cord Stimulation for the Treatment of Chronic

Intractable Pain. Sponsored by: Boston Scientific

Multiple Areas of Pain (MAP), Epidemiology of Multisite Pain in the Chronic Pain Population.

Sponsored by: Boston Scientific.

Spinal Cord Stimulation with Precision® SCS System versus Reoperation, EVIDENCE. Sponsored by:

Boston Scientific

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A Randomized, Double-Blind, Active-Controlled Crossover Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of

Fentanyl Buccal Tablets Compared With Immediate-Release Oxycodone for the Management of

Breakthrough Pain in Opioid-Tolerant Patients With Chronic Pain Followed by a 12-Week Open-Label

Extension to Evaluate the Impact of Fentanyl Buccal Tablets on Patient Outcomes. Sponsored by:

Cephalon

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Ascending-Dose Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of CEP-37247 Administered at Single Doses of 0.5, 1, 3, 6, or 12 mg by the Transforaminal Epidural Route for the Treatment of Patients With Lumbosacral Radicular Pain Associated With Disk Herniation. Sponsored by: Cephalon

A 12 Week, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Hydrocodone Bitartrate Extended-Release tablets (CEP-33237) at 15 to 90 mg Every 12 hours for Relief of Moderate to Severe Pain in Patients with Osteoarthritis or Low Back Pain Who Require Opioid Treatment for an Extended Period of Time. Sponsored by: Cephalon

A 4-Week Open-Label Study to Evaluate the Effect of Treatment With Fentanyl Buccal Tablets on Pain Anxiety Symptoms When Used for the Management of Breakthrough Pain in Opioid-Tolerant Patients with Chronic Pain. Sponsored by: Cephalon

A 12-Month, Open-Label Study to Evaluate the Long-Term Safety of Hydrocodone Bitartrate Extended-Release Tablets (CEP-33237) at 15 to 90 mg Every 12 Hours in Patients Who Require Opioid Treatment for an Extended Period of Time. Sponsored by: Cephalon

A Phase 3, Open-Label, Single-Arm Study To Assess The Safety Of Hydromorphone Hydrochloride Delivered By Intrathecal Administration. Sponsored by: CNS Therapeutics, Inc.

A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 3 Study to Evaluate the Long-term Safety and Tolerability of CB-5945 for the Treatment of Opioid-Induced Constipation in adults Taking Opioid Therapy for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain. Sponsored by: Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

A Phase III Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled study of the Safety and Efficacy of Gabapentin Extended release (G-ER) Tablets in the Treatment of Patients with Postherpetic Neuralgia. Sponsored by: Depomed

A Multi-Center, Prospective, Randomized, Controlled, Single-Blind Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of Percutaneous Lumbar Epidural Adhesiolysis in the Treatment of Painful Spinal Stenosis. Sponsored by: Epimed International

The E-STIM Trial: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Multicenter Trial Comparing the Efficacy of the Empi SelectTM Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) to a Control for the Treatment of Chronic Lower Back Pain. Sponsored by: EMPI

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multi-Center Phase 3 Study to Evaluate the Long Term Safety of Alvimopan 0.5mg Twice Daily for 12 Months for the Treatment of Opioid-Induced Bowel Dysfunction in Adults taking Opioid Therapy for Persistent Non-Cancer Pain. Sponsored by: GlaxoSmithKline

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multi-Center Phase 3 Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Alvimopan 0.5mg Once Daily and 0.5mg Twice Daily for 12 Weeks for the Treatment of Opioid-Induced Bowel Dysfunction in Adults taking Opioid Therapy for Persistent Non-Cancer Pain. Sponsored by: GlaxoSmithKline

Study for the Validation of BF-Diary for Assessing Opioid-Induced Constipation. Sponsored by: Johnson and Johnson

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-and-Active-Controlled, Parallel-Arm, Multicenter Study in Subjects With End-Stage Joint disease to Compare the Frequency of Constipation Symptoms in Subjects treated With Tapentadol IR and Oxycodone IR Using a Bowel Function Patient Diar. Sponsored by: Johnson and Johnson

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A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo- and Oxycodone Immediate Release (IR) – Controlled Study of Tapentadol IR for the Treatment of Acute Pain Caused by Vertebral Compression Fractures Associated With Osteoporosis. Sponsored by: Johnson & Johnson

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Active and Placebo-Controlled, Parallel Group, Multicenter Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Multiple Doses of CG5503 Immediate-Release Formulation in Subjects Awaiting Primary Joint Replacement Surgery for End-Stage Joint Disease. Sponsored by: Johnson and Johnson

A Prospective, Randomized, Multi-Center, Open-Label Clinical Trial Comparing Disc Biacuplasty with Medical Management for Discogenic Lumbar Back Pain. Sponsored by: Kimberly-Clark Corporation

A Prospective, Randomized, Multi-Center, Open-Label Clinical Trial Comparing Disc Biacuplasty with

Medical Management for Discogenic Lumbar Back Pain. Sponsored by: Kimberly-Clark Corporation

A Prospective, Double-Blind, Randomized, Control Trial to Compare the Efficacy of Cooled

Radiofrequency Ablation vs. Conventional Monopolar Radiofrequency Ablation of the Geniculate Nerve

for the Treatment of Chronic Ostearthritic Knee Pain Sponsored by: Kimberly-Clark Corporation

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of NKTR-118 in Patients with Non-Cancer-Related Pain and Opioid-Induced Constipation (OIC). Sponsored by: Kodiak

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled 12-Week Extension Study to Assess the Safety and Tolerability of NKTR-118 in Patients with Non-Cancer-Related Pain and Opioid-Induced Constipation (OIC). Sponsored by: Kodiak

Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel Dose Response Study of Gabapentin Injection for Intrathecal Administration in Subjects with Chronic, Intractable Pain. Sponsored by: Medtronic

Low Back Pain Outcomes Registry (LoBaPOR). Medtronic

Implantable System Performance Registry (ISPR). Sponsored by: Medtronic

A Study of the Pharmacokinetics, Safety, and Preliminary Efficacy of MDT-15 in Subjects With Lumbosacral Radiculopathy. Sponsored by: Medtronic

A Prospective, Randomized, Double-blind, Multicenter Trial to evaluate Etrocoxib vs. Diclofenac Sodium Gastrointestinal Tolerability and Effectiveness. Sponsored by: Merck & Co.

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Active-Comparator-Controlled, Parallel-Group Study to Evaluate the Safety of Etoricoxib in Patients with Osteoarthritis or Rheumatoid Arthritis (MEDAL study). Sponsored by: Merck & Co.

A confirmatory, placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind, single-dummy, parallel group, ratio-finding study in constipated pain patients to establish an optimal hydromorphone – naloxone ratio with an improved bowel function and a comparable analgesic efficacy compared to hydromorphone alone. Sponsored by: Mundipharma Research GmbH & Co.

A Phase 2, Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Multiple-Dose, Dose, Escalation Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability of NKTR-118 in Patients with Opioid-Induced Constipation (OIC). Sponsored by: Nektar Therapeutics

A Multicenter Randomized, Double-blind, Controlled Study to Evaluate Safety, Tolerability and Preliminary Efficacy of Two Capsaicin Concentration Variations of NGX-1998 (10% or 20% w/w) in Subjects With Postherpetic Neuralgia (PHN). Sponsored by: NeurogesX, Inc.

The Nevro Study: Evaluation of Nevro Handheld Stimulator for the Treatment of Back Pain. Sponsored by: Nevro Corporation

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Multi-Center, Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial to Demonstrate Non-Inferiority of the Senza™ Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) System in the Treatment of Chronic Pain as Compared to Commercially Available SCS Devices. Sponsored by: Nevro Corporation

A Randomized, Controlled Clinical Study to Evaluate the safety and Effectiveness of Cortoss® Synthetic Cortical Bone Void Filler in Vertebral Augmentation. Sponsored by: Orthovita

A Phase 3, Multi-Center, Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Study of the Long-Term Analgesic Efficacy and Safety of Tanezumab Alone or in Combination with Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) Versus NSAIDs Alone in Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee or Hip. Sponsored by: Pfizer, Inc.

A Phase 3 Randomized, Double-Blind Placebo and Naproxen Controlled Multicenter Study of the Analgesic Efficacy and Safety of Tanezumab in Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Hip or Knee. Sponsored by: Pfizer, Inc.

A Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Long-Term Study of the Safety of Tanezumab in Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee or Hip. Sponsored by: Pfizer, Inc.

A Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo Controlled, Parallel Group Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Pregabalin (BID) in Subjects with Post-Traumatic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain. Sponsored by: Pfizer, Inc.

A Phase 3 Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Safety and Efficacy Study of Once Daily Controlled Release Pregabalin in the Treatment of Patients with Postherpetic Neuralgia Sponsored by: Pfizer, Inc.

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Double-Dummy, Placebo-Controlled, Active-Controlled, Parallel-Group, Multicenter Trial of Oxycodone/Naloxone Controlled-Release Tablets (OXN) to Assess the Analgesic Efficacy (Compared to Placebo) and the Management of Opioid-Induced Constipation (Compared to Oxycodone Controlled-release Tablets (OXY)) in Opioid-Experienced subjects with Uncontrolled Moderate to Severe Chronic Low Back Pain and a History of Opioid-Induced Constipation who Require Around-the-clock Opioid Therapy. Sponsored by: Purdue Pharma, L.P.

A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Controlled, Comparative Study of SI-6603 in Patients with

Lumbar Disc Herniation (PhaseIII). Sponsored by: Seikagaku Corporation.

A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Parallel-group, Multicenter, Phase 3 Study to Evaluate the Long-term Safety of Naldemedine for the Treatment of Opioid-induced Constipation in Subjects with Non-malignant Chronic Pain Receiving Opioid Therapy. Sponsored by: Shionogi

A Multicenter, Randomized, Blinded, Saline-Controlled Trial of Resorbable Biologic Disc Augmentation for Treatment of Symptomatic Lumbar Internal Disc Disruption (IDD) with the Biostat® System. Sponsored by: Spinal Restoration, Inc.

Open-Labeled Study of the Long Term Safety and Efficacy of Lubiprostone in Patients with Opioid-induced Bowel Dysfunction. Sponsored by: Sucampo

A Multicenter, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Double-blinded Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Lubiprostone in Patients with Opioid-Induced Bowel Dysfunction. Sponsored by: Sucampo

A 12-Week, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized-Withdrawal Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Hydrocodone Bitrartrate Extended-Release Tablets (CEP-33237) at 30 to 90 mg Every 12 Hours for Relief of Moderate to Severe Pain in Patients With Chronic Pain Who Require Opioid Treatment for an Extended Period of Time. Sponsored by: Teva Branded Pharmaceuticals Products R&D, Inc.

The Clinical Evaluation of the Implantable Pump System for Safety and Delivery Accuracy in Patients Requiring Intrathecal Administration of Morphine Sulfate for Chronic Pain. Sponsored by: The Alfred Mann Foundation.

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A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group Study to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of TD-1211 in Subjects with Opioid-Induced Constipation. Sponsored by: Theravance, Inc.

mild®Decompression Alternative to Open Surgery Epidural Steroid Injection Comparative Outcomes Study (MiDAS ECO) in Patients Diagnosed with Moderate to Severe Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Exhibiting Neurogenic Claudication. Sponsored by: Vertos Medical, Inc

A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group Study of MOA-728 in the Treatment of Opioid Induced Constipation in Patients with Non-Malignant Pain. Sponsored by: Wyeth Research

A Phase 3, Open-Label, Single-Arm Study to Assess the Safety of Hydromorphone Hydrochloride

Delivered by Intrathecal Administration. Sponsored by: Mallinckrodt Inc.

INVESTIGATOR-INITIATED CLINICAL RESEARCH

A Prospective, Double-Blind, Randomized, Control Trial to Compare the Efficacy of Cooled

Radiofrequency Ablation vs. Conventional Monopolar Radiofrequency Ablation of the Geniculate Nerve

for the Treatment of Chronic Ostearthritic Knee Pain. Sponsored by: Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Paresthesia and Spinal Cord Stimulation: Functional Relevance of Sensory Overlap? Sponsored by: Advanced Bionics, A Boston Scientific Company, and Millennium Pain Center

Spinal Neuromodulation in the Treatment of Chronic Discogenic Low Back Pain. Sponsored by: Advanced Bionics, A Boston Scientific Company, and Millennium Pain Center

Effects of Neuromodulation on Glial Cell Activity. Sponsored by: Boston Scientific, Millennium Pain Center, and Illinois State University, Department of Biological Sciences

Effects of Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors in the Immune Suppression Mediated by Opiates. Sponsored by: Millennium Pain Center and Illinois State University, Department of Biological Sciences.

Effects of Intermittent Versus Continuous Opioid Administration on Cellular and Humoral Immune Responses. Sponsored by: Millennium Pain Center and Illinois State University, Department of Biological Sciences.

A Prospective, Clinical Trial of the Predictive Value of Sympathetic Blocks and Somatosensory Evoked

Potential Testing in successful treatment of Chronic Neuropathic Pain with Spinal Cord Stimulators.

Sponsored by: Millennium Pain Center, Bloomington, Illinois

A Prospective, Randomized, Double-blind controlled Clinical Trial Comparing the Efficacy of Pulse Radiofrequency Lesioning (PRFL) versus Neurolytic Radiofrequency Ablation in the Treatment of Lumbar Facet Syndrome. Sponsored by: Millennium Pain Center, Bloomington, Illinois

Incidence of Intravascular Penetration During Interlaminar Epidural steroid Injections. Sponsored by: Millennium Pain Center, Bloomington, Illinois

A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled, Double-Blind Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Pulsed-Radiofrequency Versus Continuous Radiofrequency Neuromodulation

for the Treatment of Chronic Lower Back Pain Originating from Lumbar Facet Joints. Sponsored by: Millennium Pain Center, Bloomington, Illinois; Teknon Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind, Cross-Over, Multi-Center Study to Evaluate the Comparative Efficacy of Pulsed-Radiofrequency Neuromodulation of the Dorsal Root Ganglion Versus Transforaminal Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection for the Treatment of Chronic Radicular Low Back Pain. Sponsored by: Millennium Pain Center and Teknon Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

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A Phase 3, Multi-Center, Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Study of the Long-Term Analgesic Efficacy and Safety of Tanezumab Alone or in Combination with Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) Versus NSAIDSs Alone in Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee of Hip. Sponsored by: Pfizer

PUBLICATIONS (2014)

Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Hirsch JA. Metamorphosis of Medicine in the United States: A Carrot and Stick Policy of Electronic Medical Records. Pain Physician. 2014;17(6):E671-80

Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Hirsch JA. Metamorphosis of Medicine in the United States: Is Information Technology a White Knight or Killer Whale? Pain Physician. 2014;17(6):E663-70.

Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Hansen H, Swicegood JR, Hirsch JA. Reversal of epidural cuts in 2015 physician payment schedule: two steps forward, one step back. Pain Physician. 2014;17(5):E56573

Manchikanti L, Falco FJ, Benyamin RM, Gharibo CG, Candido KD, Hirsch JA. Epidural steroid injections safety recommendations by the Multi-Society Pain Workgroup (MPW): more regulations without evidence or clarification. Pain Physician. 2014;17(5):E575-88.

Manchikanti L, Candido KD, Benyamin RM, Hirsch JA. Letter to the Editor: Results of comprehensive medical management of lumbar disorders questioned. Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine. 2014.

Manchikanti L, Singh V, Falco FJ, Benyamin RM, Hirsch JA. Epidemiology of low back pain in adults. Neuromodulation. 2014;17(2 Suppl):3-10.

Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Candido KD, Hirsch JA. Cohen et al. Reach Inappropriate Conclusions on the Effect of Sedation on the Accuracy and Treatment Outcomes for Diagnostic Injections. Letter to the Editor, Pain Medicine. 2014;15(11):1978-80.

Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Kaye AD, Hirsch JA. Do epidural injections provide short and long-term relief for lumbar disc herniation? A systematic review. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 2014.

Manchikanti L, Candido KD, Kaye AD, Boswell MV, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Gharibo CG, Hirsch JA. Randomized trial of epidural injections for spinal stenosis published in the new England journal of medicine: further confusion without clarification. Pain Physician. 2014;17(4):E475-87.

Manchikanti L, Candido KD, Singh V, Gharibo CG, Boswell MV, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Grider JS, Diwan S, Hirsch JA. Epidural steroid warning controversy still dogging FDA. 2014;17(4):E451-74.

Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Kaye AD, Yeom JS. Regarding: Kim et al. In Response To "The Influence of Pain Sensitivity on The Treatment Outcome of Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection In Patients with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis." Pain Practice. 2014;14(6):E159-60.

Manchikanti L, Cash KA, McManus CD, Pampati V, Benyamin RM. Thoracic interlaminar epidural injections in managing chronic thoracic pain: a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial with a 2-year follow-up. Pain Physician. 2014;17(3):E327-38.

Manchikanti L, Falco FJ, Benyamin RM, Kaye AD, Boswell MV, Hirsch JA. A modified approach to grading of evidence. Pain Physician. 2014;17(3):E319-25.

Leite VF, Buehler AM, El Abd O, Benyamin RM, Pimentel DC, Chen J, Hsing WT, Mazloomdoost D, Amadera JE. Anti-nerve growth factor in the treatment of low back pain and radiculopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Pain Physician. 2014;17(1):E45-60.

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Pimentel DC, El Abd O, Benyamin RM, Buehler AM, Leite VF, Mazloomdoost D, Chen J, Hsing WT, Amadera JE. Anti-tumor necrosis factor antagonists in the treatment of low back pain and radiculopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Pain Physician. 2014;17(1):E27-44.

Manchikanti L, Hansen H, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Kaye AD, Hirsch JA. Declining value of work of interventional pain physicians. Pain Physician. 2014;17(1):E11-9.

Manchikanti L, Atluri S, Hansen H, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Helm Ii S, Kaye AD, Hirsch JA. Opioids in chronic noncancer pain: have we reached a boiling point yet? Pain Physician. 2014;17(1):E1-10.

Manchikanti L, Hirsch JA, Heavner JE, Cohen SP, Benyamin RM, Sehgal N, Falco FJ, Vallejo R, Onyewu CO, Zhu J, Kaye AD, Boswell MV, Helm S 2nd, Candido KD, Diwan S, Simopoulos TT, Singh V, Pampati V, Racz GB, Raj PP. Development of an interventional pain management specific instrument for methodologic quality assessment of nonrandomized studies of interventional techniques. Pain

Physician. 2014;17(3):E291-317.

Manchikanti L, Hirsch JA, Cohen SP, Heavner JE, Falco FJ, Diwan S, Boswell MV, Candido KD, Onyewu CO, Zhu J, Sehgal N, Kaye AD, Benyamin RM, Helm S 2

nd, Singh V, Datta S, Abdi S, Christo

PJ, Hameed H, Hameed M, Vallejo R, Pampati V, Racz GB, Raj PP. Assessment of methodological quality of randomized trials of interventional techniques: development of an interventional pain management specific instrument. Pain Physician 2014; 17(3):E263-90.

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Tilley DM, Kelley CA, Cedeno DL. An ex vivo comparison of cooled-radiofrequency and bipolar-radiofrequency lesion size and the effect of injected fluids. Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 2014; 39(4):312-21.

PUBLICATIONS (2013)

Vallejo, R, Tilley DM, Williams J, Labak S, Aliaga L, Benyamin RM. Pulsed Radiofrequency Modulates Pain Regulatory Gene Expression Along the Nociceptive Pathway. Pain Physician. 2013;16(5):E601-13.

Manchikanti L, Cash KA, McManus CD, Pampati V, Benyamin RM. A randomized, double-blind, active-controlled trial of fluoroscopic lumbar interlaminar epidural injections in chronic axial or discogenic low back pain: results of 2-year follow-up. Pain physician. 2013;16(5):E491-504.

Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Hirsch JA. Recommendations of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC) on the Health Care Delivery System: the impact on interventional pain management in 2014 and beyond. Pain Physician. 2013;16(5):419-40.

Helm li S, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ. Refinement in evidence synthesis of Percutaneous Adhesiolysis. Pain Physician. 2013;16(3):177-84.

Manchikanti L, Falco FJ, Pampati V, Cash KA, Benyamin RM, Hirsch JA. Cost utility analysis of caudal epidural injections in the treatment of lumbar disc herniation, axial or discogenic low back pain, central spinal stenosis, and post lumbar surgery syndrome. Pain Physician. 2013;16(3):E129-43.

Manchikanti L, Falco FJ, Benyamin RM, Helm li S, Singh V, Hirsch JA. Value-based interventional pain management: a review of medicare national and local coverage determination policies. Pain Physician. 2013;16(3):E145-80.

Manchikanti L, Falco FJ, Singh V, Benyamin RM, Racz GB, Helm li S, Caraway DL, Calodney AK, Snook LT, Smith HS, Gupta S, Ward SP, Grider JS, Hirsch JA. An update of comprehensive evidence-based guidelines for interventional techniques in chronic spinal pain. Part I: Introduction and General Considerations. Pain Physician. 2013;16(2 Suppl):S1-48.

Manchikanti L, Singh V, Calodney AK, Helm li S, Deer TR, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Hirsch JA. Percutaneous lumbar mechanical disc decompression utilizing dekompressor: an update of current evidence. Pain Physician. 2013;16(2 Suppl):SE1-24.

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Manchikanti L, Singh V, Falco FJ, Calodney AK, Onyewu O, Helm li S, Benyamin RM, Hirsch JA. An updated review of automated percutaneous mechanical lumbar discectomy for the contained herniated lumbar disc. Pain Physician. 2013;16(2 Suppl):SE151-84.

Datta S, Manchikanti L, Falco FJ, Calodney AK, Atluri S, Benyamin RM, Buenaventura RM, Cohen SP. Diagnostic utility of selective nerve root blocks in the diagnosis of lumbosacral radicular pain: Systematic review and update of current evidence. Pain Physician. 2013;16(2 Suppl):SE97-124.

Manchikanti L, Abdi S, Atluri S, Benyamin RM, Boswell MV, Buenaventura RM, Bryce DA, Burks PA, Caraway DL, Calodney AK, Cash KA, Christo PJ, Cohen SP, Vallejo, R. An Update of Comprehensive Evidence-Based Guidelines for Interventional Techniques in Chronic Spinal Pain. Part II: Guidance and Recommendations. Pain Physician. 2013;16(2 Suppl):S49-283.

Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Singh V, Falco FJ, Hameed H, Derby R, Wolfer LR, Helm li S, Calodney AK, Datta S, Snook LT, Caraway DL, Hirsch JA, Cohen SP. An Update of the Systematic Appraisal of the Accuracy and Utility of Lumbar Discography in Chronic Low Back Pain. Pain Physician. 2013;16(2 Suppl):SE55-95.

Manchikanti L, Falco FJ, Benyamin RM, Caraway DL, Kaye AD, Helm li S, Wargo BW, Hansen H, Parr AT, Singh V, Swicegood JR, Smith HS, Schultz DM, Malla Y. Assessment of bleeding risk of interventional techniques: A best evidence synthesis of practice patterns and perioperative management of anticoagulant and antithrombotic therapy. Pain Physician. 2013;16(2 Suppl):SE261-318.

Manchikanti L, Falco FJ, Benyamin RM, Caraway DL, Deer TR, Singh V, Hameed H, Hirsch JA. An Update of the Systematic Assessment of Mechanical Lumbar Disc Decompression with Nucleoplasty. Pain Physician. 2013;16(2 Suppl):SE25-54.

PUBLICATIONS (2012)

Vallejo R, Benyamin RM. Novel options for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis: Minimally invasive lumbar decompression and other strategies. Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management. 2012;16(2):84-8.

Manchikanti L, Cash KA, McManus CD, Pampati V, Benyamin R. Fluoroscopic Lumbar Interlaminar Epidural Injections in Managing Chronic Lumbar Axial or Discogenic Pain. Journal of Pain Research. 2012;5:301-11.

Manchikanti L, Caraway DL, Falco FJ, Benyamin RM, Hansen H, Hirsch JA. CMS Proposal for Interventional Pain Management by Nurse Anesthetists: Evidence by Proclamation with Poor Prognosis. Pain Physician. 2012;15(5):E641-64.

Manchikanti L, Singh V, Caraway DL, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Hirsch JA. Proposed Physician Payment Schedule for 2013: Guarded Prognosis for Interventional Pain Management. Pain Physician. 2012;15(5):E615-27.

Manchikanti L, Falco FJ, Benyamin RM, Caraway DL, Helm li S, Wargo BW, Hansen H, Parr AT, Singh V, Hirsch JA. Assessment of Infection Control Practices for Interventional Techniques: A Best Evidence Synthesis of Safe Injection Practices and Use of Single-Dose Medication Vials. Pain Physician. 2012;15(5):E573-614.

Benyamin RM, Wang VC, Vallejo R, Singh V, Helm li S. A Systematic Evaluation of Thoracic Intralaminar Epidural Injections. Pain Physician. 2012;15(4):E497-514.

Helm li S, Benyamin RM, Chopra P, Deer TR, Justiz R. Percutaneous Adhesiolysis in the Management of Chronic Low Back Pain in Post Lumbar Surgery Syndrome and Spinal Stenosis: A Systematic Review. Pain Physician. 2012;15(4):E435-62.

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Diwan S, Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Bryce DA, Geffert S, Hameed H, Sharma ML, Abdi S, Falco FJ. Effectiveness of Cervical Epidural Injections in the Management of Chronic Neck and Upper Extremity Pain. Pain Physician. 2012;15(4):E405-34.

Benyamin RM, Manchikanti L, Parr AT, Diwan S, Singh V, Falco FJ, Datta S, Abdi S, Hirsch JA. The Effectiveness of Lumbar Interlaminar Epidural Injections in Managing Chronic Low Back and Lower Extremity Pain. Pain Physician. 2012;15(4):E363-404.

Manchikanti L, Abdi S, Atluri S, Balog CC, Benyamin RM, Boswell MV, Brown KR, Bruel BM, Bryce DA, Burks PA, Burton AW, Calodney AK, Caraway DL, Cash KA, Christo PJ, Damron KS, Datta S, Deer TR, Diwan S, Eriator I, Falco FJ, Fellows B, Geffert S, Gharibo CG, Glaser SE, Grider JS, Hameed H, Hameed M, Hansen H, Harned ME, Hayek SM, Helm S 2nd, Hirsch JA, Janata JW, Kaye AD, Kaye AM, Kloth DS, Koyyalagunta D, Lee M, Malla Y, Manchikanti KN, McManus CD, Pampati V, Parr AT, Pasupuleti R, Patel VB, Sehgal N, Silverman SM, Singh V, Smith HS, Snook LT, Solanki DR, Tracy DH, Vallejo R, Wargo BW. American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) Guidelines for Responsible Opioid Prescribing in Chronic Non-Cancer Pain: Part One- Evidence Assessment. Pain Physician. 2012;15(3 Suppl):S1-65.

Manchikanti L, Abdi S, Atluri S, Balog CC, Benyamin RM, Boswell MV, Brown KR, Bruel BM, Bryce DA, Burks PA, Burton AW, Calodney AK, Caraway DL, Cash KA, Christo PJ, Damron KS, Datta S, Deer TR, Diwan S, Eriator I, Falco FJ, Fellows B, Geffert S, Gharibo CG, Glaser SE, Grider JS, Hameed H, Hameed M, Hansen H, Harned ME, Hayek SM, Helm S 2nd, Hirsch JA, Janata JW, Kaye AD, Kaye AM, Kloth DS, Koyyalagunta D, Lee M, Malla Y, Manchikanti KN, McManus CD, Pampati V, Parr AT, Pasupuleti R, Patel VB, Sehgal N, Silverman SM, Singh V, Smith HS, Snook LT, Solanki DR, Tracy DH, Vallejo R, Wargo BW. American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) Guidelines for Responsible Opioid Prescribing in Chronic Non-Cancer Pain: Part Two- Guidance. Pain Physician. 2012;15(3 Suppl):S67-116.

Benyamin RM, Vallejo R. Regarding: Dr. Tumialán et al. in response to "Long-term results of percutaneous lumbar decompression mild® for spinal stenosis". Pain Practice. 2012;12(6):498.

Parr AT, Manchikanti L, Hameed H, Conn A, Manchikanti KN, Benyamin RM, Diwan S, Singh V, Abdi S. Caudal Epidural Injections in the Management of Chronic Low Back Pai: A Systematic Appraisal of the Literature. Pain Physician. 2012;15(3):E159-98.

Manchikanti L, Singh V, Caraway DL, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Hirsch JA. Physician Payment Outlook for 2012: déjà vu. Pain Physician. 2012;15(1):E27-52.

Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Caraway DL, Datta S, Hirsch JA. Guidelines warfare over interventional techniques: Is There a Lack of Discourse or Straw Man? Pain Physician. 2012;15(1):E1-26.

Singh, V, Manchikanti L, Onyewu O, Benyamin RM, Datta S, Geffert S, Parr AT, Falco FJ. An Update of the Appraisal of the accuracy of the Thoracic Discography as a Diagnostic test of Chronic Spinal Pain. Pain Physician. 2012;15(6):E757-75.

Manchikanti, Laxmaiah, Benyamin RM, Swicegood JR, Falco FJ, Datta S, Pampata V, Fellows B, Hirsch JA. Assessment of practice parameters of perioperative management of antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy in interventional pain management. Pain Physician. 2012;15(6):E955-68.

Manchikanti, Laxmaiah, Falco FJ, Singh V, Pampati V, Parr AT, Benyamin RM, Fellows B, Hirsch JA. Utilization of Interventional Techniques in Managing Chronic Pain in the Medicare Population: Analysis of Growth Patterns from 2000 to 2011. Pain Physician. 2012;15(6):E969-82.

Falco FJ, Manchikanti L, Datta S, Sehgal N, Geffert S, Onyewu O, Singh V, Bryce D, Benyamin RM, Simopoulos TT, Vallejo R, Gupta S, Ward Sp, Hirsch JA. An Update of the Systematic Assessment of the diagnostic accuracy of the lumbar facet joint nerve blocks. Pain Physician. 2012;15(6):E869-907.

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Falco FJ, Manchikanti, Laxmaiah, Datta S, Wargo BW, Geffert S, Bryce DA, Atluri S, Singh V, Benyamin RM, Sehgal N, Ward SP, Helm S, Gupta S, Boswell MV. Systematic review of the therapeutic effectiveness of cervical facet joint interventions: an update. Pain Physician. 2012;15(6):E839-68.

Vallejo R, Manuel ZL, Lowe J, Benyamin, R. Is Spinal Cord Stimulation an Effective Treatment Option for Discogenic Pain? Pain Practice. 2012;12(3):194-201.

Mekhail N, Vallejo R, Coleman M, Benyamin R. Long-Term Results of Percutaneous Lumbar Decompression mild

® for Spinal Stenosis. Pain Practice. 2012;12(3):184-93.

Bae H, Hatten HP Jr, Linovitz R, Tahernia AD, Schaufele MK, McCollom V, Gilula L, Maurer P, Benyamin R, Mathis JM, Persenaire M. A Prospective Randomized FDA-IDE Trial Comparing Cortoss™ to PMMA for Vertebroplasty: A Comparative Effectiveness Research Study with 24-Months Follow-Up. Spine. 2012;37(7):544-50.

PUBLICATIONS (2011)

Manchikanti L, Ailinani H, Koyyalagunta D, Datta S, Singh V, Eriator I, Sehgal N, Shah R, Benyamin R, Vallejo R, Fellows B and Christo P. A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials of Long-Term Opioid Management for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain. Pain Physician. 2011;14(2):91-121.

Manchikanti L, Singh V, Caraway D and Benyamin R. Breakthrough Pain in Chronic Non-Cancer Pain: Fact, Fiction, or Abuse. Pain Physician. 2011;14(2):E103-17.

Manchikanti L, Falco FJ, Singh V, Benyamin RM, Hirsch JA. The independent payment advisory board. Pain Physician. 2011;14(4):E313-42.

Manchikanti L, Falco FJ, Benyamin RM, Helm S 2nd

, Parr AT, Hirsch JA. The impact of comparative effectiveness research on interventional pain management: evolution from medicare modernization act to patient protection and affordable care act and the patient-centered outcomes research institute. Pain Physician. 2011;14(3):E249-82.

Manchikanti L, Vallejo R, Manchikanti KN, Benyamin RM, Datta S, Christo PJ. Effectiveness of long-term opioid therapy for chronic non-cancer pain. Pain Physician. 2011;14(2):E133-56.

Manchikanti L, Singh V, Caraway DL, Benyamin RM, Hirsch JA. Medicare physician payment systems: impact of 2011 schedule on interventional pain management. Pain Physician. 2011;14(1):E5-33.

Nebreda C, Vallejo R, Aliaga L, Benyamin R. Percutaneous Sacroplasty and Sacroiliac Joint Cementation under Fluoroscopic Guidance for Lower Back Pain Related to Sacral Metastatic Tumors with Sacroiliac Joint Invasion. Pain Practice. 2011;11(6):564-9.

PUBLICATIONS (2010)

Manchikanti L, Cash KA, McManus CD, Pampati V, Benyamin RM. A Preliminary Report of a Randomized Double-Blind, Active Controlled Trial of Fluoroscopic Thoracic Interlaminar Epidural Injections in Managing Chronic Thoracic Pain. Pain Physician. 2010;13(6):E357-69.

Vallejo R, Benyamin RM. Vertebral augmentation techniques for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures: A review. Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management. 2010;14(3):133-141.

Vallejo R, Benyamin RM, Aliaga L. Radiofrequency vs. pulse radiofrequency: The end of the controversy. Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management. 2010;14(3):128-32.

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Manchikanti L, Cash KA, McManus CD, Pampati V, and Benyamin RM. Preliminary Results of a Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial of Fluoroscopic Lumbar Interlaminar Epidural Injections in Managing Chronic Lumbar Discogenic Pain Without Disc Herniation or Radiculitis. Pain Physician. 2010;13(4):E279-92.

Manchikanti L, Datta S, Gupta S, Munglani R, Bryce DA, Ward SP, Benyamin RM, Sharma ML, Helm S, Fellows B, and Hirsch JA. A Critical Review of the American Pain Society Clinical Practice Guidelines For Interventional Techniques: Part 2. Therapeutic Interventions. Pain Physician. 2010;13(4)E215-64.

Manchikanti L, Benyamin R, Datta S, Vallejo R, Smith H. Opioids in chronic noncancer pain. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics. 2010;10(5):775-89.

Manchikanti L, Datta S, Derby R, Wolfer LR, Benyamin RM, Hirsch JA. A Critical Review of the American Pain Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Interventional Techniques: Part 1. Diagnostic Interventions. Pain Physician. 2010;13(3):E141-74.

Benyamin RM, Datta S, and Falco FJE. A Perfect Storm in Interventional Pain Management: Regulated, but Unbalanced. Pain Physician. 2010;13(2):109-16.

Vallejo R, Tilley DM, Vogel L, Benyamin RM. The role of glia and the immune system in the development and maintenance of neuropathic pain. Pain Practice. 2010;10(3):167-84.

PUBLICATIONS (2009)

Manchikanti L, Cash KA, McManus CD, Pampati V, Singh V, Benyamin RM. The preliminary results of a comparative effectiveness evaluation of adhesiolysis and caudal epidural injections in managing chronic low back pain secondary to spinal stenosis:A randomized, equivalence controlled trial. Pain Physician. 2009;12(6):E341-54.

Datta, S, Benyamin RM, Manchikanti L. Evidence-based practice of lumbar epidural injections. Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management. 2009;13(4):281-7.

Manchikanti L, Boswell MV, Singh V, Benyamin RM, Fellows B, Abdi S, Buenaventura RM, Conn A, Datta S, Derby R, Falco FJE, Erhart S, Diwan S, Hayek SM, Helm S, Parr AT, Schultz DM, Smith HS, Wolfer LR, and Hirsch JA. Comprehensive Evidence-Based Guidelines for Interventional Techniques in the Management of Chronic Spinal Pain, ASIPP – IPM Guidelines. Pain Physician. 2009;12(4):699-802.

Manchikanti L, Boswell MV, Datta S, Fellows B, Abdi S, Singh V, Benyamin RM, Falco FJE, Helm S, Hayek SM, and Smith HS. Comprehensive Review of Therapeutic Interventions in Managing Chronic Spinal Pain. EBM – Guidelines. Pain Physician. 2009;12(4):E123-98.

Manchikanti L, Singh V, Pampati V, Boswell MV, Benyamin RM, and Hirsch JA. Description of Documentation in the Management of Chronic Spinal Pain. EBM – Guidelines. Pain Physician. 2009;12(4):E199-224.

Manchikanti L, Helm S, Singh V, Benyamin RM, Datta S, Hayek SM, Fellows B, and Boswell MV. An Algorithmic Approach for Clinical Management of Chronic Spinal Pain. EBM – Guidelines. Pain Physician. 2009;12(4):E225-64.

Hirsch JA, Singh V, Falco FJ, Benyamin RM, Manchikanti L. Automated percutaneous lumbar discectomy for the contained herniated lumbar disc: a systematic assessment of evidence. Pain Physician. 2009;12(3):601-20.

Singh V, Benyamin RM, Datta S, Falco FJ, Helm S 2nd, Manchikanti L. Systematic review of percutaneous lumbar mechanical disc decompression utilizing Dekompressor. Pain Physician. 2009;12(3):589-99.

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Singh V, Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Helm S, Hirsch JA. Percutaneous lumbar laser disc decompression: a systematic review of current evidence. Pain Physician. 2009;12(3):573-88.

Manchikanti L, Derby R, Benyamin RM, Helm S, Hirsch JA. A systematic review of mechanical lumbar disc decompression with nucleoplasty. Pain Physician. 2009;12(3):561-72.

Hayek SM, Helm S, Benyamin RM, Singh V, Bryce DA, Smith HS. Effectiveness of spinal endoscopic adhesiolysis in post lumbar surgery syndrome: a systematic review. Pain Physician. 2009;12(2):419-35.

Nguyen T, Kramer J, Vallejo R, Stanton G, Heidenreich BA, Benyamin R, Vogel LA. Citalopram enhances B cell numbers in a murine model of morphine-induced immunosuppression. Pain Practice. 2009;9(3):195-205.

Benyamin RM, Singh V, Parr AT, Conn A, Diwan S, Abdi S. Systematic Review of the effectiveness of cervical epidurals in the management of chronic neck pain. Pain Physician. 2009;12(1):137-57.

Epter RS, Helm S II, Hayek SM, Benyamin RM, Smith HS, Abdi S. Systematic review of percutaneous adhesiolysis and management of chronic low back pain in post lumbar surgery syndrome. Pain Physician. 2009;12(2):361-78.

Frey ME, Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Schultz DM, Smith HS, Cohen SP. Spinal cord stimulation for patients with failed back surgery syndrome: A systematic review. Pain Physician. 2009;12(2):379-97.

Helm S, Hayek SM, Benyamin RM, Manchikanti L. Systematic review of the effectiveness of thermal annular procedures in treating discogenic low back pain. Pain Physician. 2009;12(1):207-32.

Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM. Long-term opioid therapy. Pain Practice. 2009;9(2):164.

Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Helm S, Hirsch JA. Evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews, and guidelines in interventional pain management: Part 3: systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized trials. Pain Physician. 2009;12(1):35-72.

PUBLICATIONS (2008 & prior)

Manchikanti L, Singh V, Derby R, Schultz D, Benyamin R, Prager J, Hirsch J. Reassessment of evidence synthesis of occupational medicine practice guidelines for interventional pain management. Health care policy. Pain Physician. 2008;11(4):393-482.

Benyamin RM, Vallejo R, Kramer J, Rafeyan R. Corticosteroid induced psychosis in the pain management setting. Case report. Pain Physician. 2008;11(6):917-20.

Benyamin R, Trescot AM, Datta S, Buenaventura R, Adlaka R, Sehgal N, Glaser S, Vallejo R. Opioid complications and side effects. Opioid Special Issue. Pain Physician. 2008;11(2 Suppl):S105-20.

Trescot AM, Helm S, Hansen H, Benyamin R, Glaser S, Adlaka R, Patel S, Manchikanti L. Opioids in the management of chronic non-cancer pain: An update of American Society of the Interventional Pain Physicians’ guidelines. Opioid Special Issue. Pain Physician. 2008;11(2 Suppl):S5-62

Trescot AM, Glaser S, Hansen H, Patel S, Benyamin R, Manchikanti L. Effectiveness of opioids in the treatment of chronic non-cancer pain. Opioid Special Issue. Pain Physician. 2008;11(2 Suppl):S181-200.

Nguyen T, Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer J, Vogel L. Spinal glial modulation of neuropathic pain using a spared nerve injury model in the mouse. FASEB Journal 2008.

Benyamin R, Vallejo R, Tamrazi A, Yousuf N, Kramer J. Incidental diagnosis of intradural lumbar disc herniation during discography: A case report. Pain Practice. 2007;7(4):332-6.









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Vallejo, R., Benyamin, R., Yousuf, N., Kramer, J. Images in Pain Practice: Intradiscal intravasation of contrast during a transforaminal epidural injection. Pain Practice. 2007;7(3):285-7.

Buenaventura, R.M., Shah, R.V., Patel, V., Benyamin, R.M., Singh, V. Systematic review of discography as a diagnostic test for spinal pain: An update. Pain Physician. 2007;10(1):147-64.

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Yousuf N, Kramer J. Images in Pain Practice: Computed tomography-enhanced sphenopalatine ganglion blockade. Pain Practice. 2007;7(1):44-6.

Benyamin R, Vertebroplasty. American Society of Interventtional Pain Physicians Newsletter. 2007.

Boswell, MV, Trescot AM, Datta S, Schultz D, Hansen H, Abdi S, Sehgal N, Shah R, Singh V, Benyamin R, Patel V, Buenaventura R, Colson J, Cordner H, Epter R, Jasper J, Dunbar E, Atluri S, Bowman R, Deer T, Swicegood J, Staats P, Smith H, Burton A, Kloth D, Giordano J, Manchikanti L. Interventional Techniques: Evidence-based practice guidelines in the management of chronic spinal pain. Pain Physician. 2007;10(1):7-111.

Benyamin R, Kramer J, Vallejo R. A case of spinal cord stimulation in Reynaud’s phenomenon: Can subthreshold sensory stimulation have an effect? Pain Physician. 2007;10(3):473-8.

Vallejo R, Kramer J, Benyamin R. Author Response To: Request for additional pertinent information regarding 4 extremity stimulation coverage from C2 spinal cord stimulation lead placement. Pain Physician. 2007;10(3):516-7.

Vallejo R, KramerJ, Benyamin R. Neuromodulation of the cervical spinal cord in the treatment of chronic intractable neck and upper extremity pain: A case series and review of the literature. Pain Physician. 2007;10(2):305-11.

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer J. Yousuf N. Morphine pump catheter rupture after percutaneous lithotripsy. Pain Practice. 2006;6(4):289-90.

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Yousuf N, Kramer J. Images in Pain Practice: Morphine pump catheter rupture after percutaneous lithotripsy. Pain Practice. 2006.

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Yousuf N, Kramer J. Images in Pain Practice: Vertebroplasty. Pain Practice. 2006;6(3):203-5.

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Yousuf N, Kramer J. Images in Pain Practice: Disc herniation and clinical radicular

disparities. Pain Practice. 2006;6(2):135-8.

Vallejo R, Benyamin, R, Joseph, NJ, Stanton G, Kramer J. Pulsed radiofrequency denervation for the

treatment of sacroiliac joint syndrome. Pain Medicine. 2006;7(5):429-34.

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer J. Neuromodulation of the occipital nerve in pain management.

Techniques in Regional Anesthesia Pain Management. 2006;10(1):12-5.

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Floyd B, Casto J, Joseph NJ, Mekhail N. Percutaneous cement injection into a

created cavity for the treatment of vertebral body fracture: Preliminary results of a new vertebroplasty

technique. Clinical Journal of Pain. 2006;22(2):182-9.

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer J. Epidurales Cervicales, como?, donde?, cuando? Y porque? La

controversia continua. Revista de Anestesiologia de Argentina. 2005;63(6):402-6.

Benyamin, R, Vallejo R. Vertebroplasty. Techniques in Regional Anesthesia Pain Management.

2005;9(2):62-7.

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Stanton G. Epidural analgesia for cancer patient. Clinical Journal of Cancer

Pain Symp Fall. 2005;1(3):21-9.

Vallejo R, Benyamin RM, Yousuf N. Low back pain. Pain Practice. 2005;5(4):354-5.

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Vallejo R, Benyamin RM, Yousuf N. Neck and Shoulder Pain. Pain Practice. 2005;5(3):249-50.

Vallejo, R., Plancarte, R., Benyamin, R. and Santiago-Palma, R. Anterior Cervical Approach for Stellate

and T2/T3 Sympathetic Block: A Novel Technique. Pain Practice. 2005;5(3):244-8.

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, DeLeon Casasola O. Opioid therapy and immune suppression: A Review.

American Journal of Therapeutics. 2004;11(5):354-65.

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Floyd B, Casto J. New Technique for Treatment of Vertebral body fracture:

Initial experience with the cavity creation system. Pain Medicine. 2004

Benyamin RM, Salem MR, Wafai Y, Joseph NJ. Letter to the editor: Two-handed mask ventilation of the

difficult airway by a single individual. Anesthesiology. 1998;88(4):1134.

Mahdi M, Zaki A, Salem MR, Manley S, Benyamin RM. Hemodynamic Responses to reversal of

neuromuscular blockade after coronary artery bypass surgery. Anesthesiology. 1996;85(3A):S125.

Mahdi M, Benyamin RM, Lang DJ, Salem MR. Is the “old washboard-like” sign reliable in distinguishing

tracheal from esophageal intubation? Anesthesiology. 1995;83(3A):A1090.

Benyamin RM, Salem MR, Joseph NJ. Sampling errors during use of the Dryden disposable absorber

circuit. Can they be prevented? Anesthesiology. 1994;81:A585.

Benyamin RM, Salem MR, Joseph NJ. Sampling errors in PETCO2 measurements during the use of

Dryden disposable CO2 absorber circuit. Anesthesiology. 1993;79:A561.

Wafai Y, Salem MR, Nimmagadda U, Benyamin R, Baraka A. The self- inflating bulb in detecting

esophageal intubation: Does cuff deflation make a difference? Anesthesiology. 1993;79(3A):A1056.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Benyamin R., Vallejo R., Rehman A., Burton A. Vertebral Augmentation. In Diwan-Staats’ Atlas of Pain Medicine Procedures, Ed. S Diwan and PS Staats. McGraw-Hill, 2014

Benyamin R., Grider J., Vallejo R., Tilley D., and Kaye A. Spinal Cord Stimulation: Principles and Applications. In Principles of Neurophysiological Assessment, Mapping and Monitoring, Ed. AD Kaye

and SF Davis. Springer, 2014

Vallejo R, Benyamin R., Vertebroplastia y Tecnicas de aumento vertebral. In Medicina del Dolor. Perspectiva Internacional, Ed. JC Flores. Elsevier 2014

Manchikanti L., Falco F., Benyamin R., Neck and Cervical Radicular Pain. In Clinical Aspects of Interventional Pain Management and Pain Medicine, ASIPP 2011

Manchikanti L., Benyamin R., Documentation for Evaluation and Management Services, Foundations of Interventional Pain Management and Pain Medicine, ASIPP 2011

Manchikanti L., Benyamin R., Vallejo R., Hirsch J., Neurophysiologic Basis and Diagnosis of Chronic Spinal Pain, Foundations of Interventional Pain Management and Pain Medicine, ASIPP 2011

Benyamin R., Vallejo R., Kramer J., Bounds D. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation, Interventional Techniques in Chronic Non-Spinal Pain, Ed. L Manchikanti. ASIPP 2009

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Vallejo R., Benyamin R., Kramer J., Bounds D. Spinal Cord Stimulation, Interventional Techniques in Chronic Spinal Pain, Ed. L Manchikanti. ASIPP 2007

Vallejo R, Benyamin R. Tecnicas de relleno de fracturas de cuerpos vertebrales. Indicaciones y seleccion de tecnicas. In Puesta al dia en Anestesia Regional y tratamiento del dolor. Vol. 10, Ed. J De Andres. MRA 2007

Vallejo R, Benyamin R. Dolor sacroiliaco, tecnicas diagnosticas y posibilidades terapeuticas. In Puesta al dia en Anestesia Regional y tratamiento del dolor. Vol 10, Ed. J De Andres. MRA 2007

Vallejo R, Benyamin R. Dolor Cervico-toracico mantenido por el simpatico. Bases para la decision del nivel y metodologia. In Puesta al dia en Anestesia Regional y tratamiento del dolor. Vol 10, Ed. J De Andres. MRA 2007

Vallejo R, Benyamin R. Discografia. In Tecnicas Intervencionistas para manejo del dolor, Ed. LM Torres Morera. 2007

Vallejo R, Benyamin R. Tecnicas percutaneas de decompresion discal. In Tecnicas Intervencionistas para manejo del dolor, Ed. Torres Morera LM. 2007

SCIENTIFIC POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Tilley DM, Kelley CA, Cedeno DL, Benyamin R, Vallejo R. First Preliminary Report of Spinal Cord Microrray Analysis in an Injury Model Undergoing Chronic SCS. 18

th Annual Meeting of the North

American Neuromodulation Society. Las Vegas, Nevada, 2014.

Miller N., Sebahar M., Vallejo R., Benyamin R., Lin S., Mekel-Bobrov N. Optimization of Stimulation Location is Essential to Sub-perception SCS: results of a Double –Blind Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial. North American Neuromodulation Society, 18

th Annual Meeting,

Las Vegas, Nevada, 2014

Vallejo R., Cedeño DL, Benyamin R., Tilley DM., Kelley CA., Vallejo R., Kumar N. Ex Vivo Comparison of Lesions Created with Cooled Radiofrequency and Protruding Electrode Radiofrequency Probes? 22

nd

Annual Napa Pain Conference, Napa, California, 2014

Vallejo R, Aliaga L, Benyamin R, Montesinos S, Ojeda A, Nebreda C, Orduna J. Pulse radiofrequency modulates the expression of regulatory genes along the nociceptive pathways. Spain Pain Society meeting, 2014

Tilley DM, Kelley CA, Cedeno D, Benyamin R, Vallejo R. A Pre-clinical Recovery Model for Continuous

Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) Implant for a Peripheral Nerve Injury. 17th Annual Meeting of the North

American Neuromodulation Society. Las Vegas, NV, 2013

Benyamin R, Reduction in Narcotic Pain Medications Correlated to Pain Relief and Patient Satisfaction Post-Vertebroplasty- Results from a Prospective, Randomized Controlled IDE Study, 11

th Annual

Meeting of American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Washington, D.C., 2011

Vallejo R, Zevallos LM, Lowe J, Benyamin RM. Is Spinal Cord Stimulation an Effective Treatment Option for Discogenic Pain?, 14

th Annual Meeting of the North American Neuromodulation Society, Las

Vegas, Nevada, 2010

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Tilley D, Handler C, Kramer J, Vogel L, Benyamin R, Vallejo R. Pulsed Radiofrequency Attenuates Cytokine Secretion in the Spared Nerve Injury Model, Annual Autumn Immunology Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 2009

Vallejo R, Tilley D, Vogel L, Benyamin R. Pulsed Radiofrequency Attenuates Cytokine Expression in the Spared Nerve Injury Model, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA) Annual Pain Medicine Meeting and Workshops, San Antonio, Texas, 2009

Benyamin R, Vallejo R, Kramer JM. Treatment of Painful Sacral Fractures by Percutaneous Sacroplasty: A case series with technical perspectives, 11

th Annual Meeting of American Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians, Washington, D.C., 2008

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer JM. Phenol injections into the sacroiliac joint provide sustained relief in painful sacroiliac joint dysfunction, 11

th Annual Meeting of American Society of Interventional Pain

Physicians, Washington, D.C., 2008

Nguyen T, Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer J, Vogel L. Spinal glial modulation of neuropathic pain using a spare nerve ligation in mouse. Federation of American Society of Experimental Biology, San Diego, California, 2008

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer J. Spinal cord stimulation in the treatment of discogenic low back pain. ASRA Annual Pain Medicine Meeting, Boca Raton, Florida, 2007

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer JM. Pulsed Radiofrequency neuromodulation of the c2 nerve root for the treatment of cervicogenic headache originating in the lateral atlantoaxial joint. 4

th World Congress of the

World Institute of Pain. Budapest, Hungary. 2007

Benyamin R, Vallejo R, Kramer, JM. Sensory subthreshold stimulation maintains pain relief in spinal neuromodulation of Raynaud’s phenomenon. North American Neuro-Modulation Society, 10

th Annual

Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2007

Kramer JM, Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Willett P, Truttmann A, Kahwaji M. Somatization factor of the pain patient questionnaire predicts spinal cord stimulator trial outcome. North American Neuro-Modulation Society, 10

th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2006

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer JM. Chronic pain following neck surgery is effectively treated with cervical spinal cord stimulators: A case series. North American Neuro-Modulation Society, 10

th Annual

Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2006.

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Plancarte R, Santiago-Palma J, Anterior cervical approach for stellate and T2/T3 sympathetic block: A novel technique. American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 30

th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 2005

Benyamin R, Vallejo R. Incidence of intravascular injection during interlaminar cervical epidural steroid injection. Third World Congress of Pain, Barcelona, Spain, September 2004

Vallejo R, Benyamin R. Pulse Radiofrequency denervation: an effective treatment for intractable

sacroiliac joint syndrome. Third World Congress of Pain, Barcelona, Spain, September 2004

Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Floyd B, Casto J. New Technique for treatment of vertebral body fracture: Initial

experience with the cavity creation system. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine,

Orlando, Florida, 2004

Benyamin R A new and safe technique for tracheal tube exchange. 70th Clinical and Scientific

Congress of the International Anesthesia Research Society, Washington D.C., 1996

Benyamin R A new and safe technique for tracheal tube exchange. Annual Meeting of the American

Society of Anesthesiologists, Atlanta, Georgia, 1995

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Benyamin R Sampling errors during use of the Dryden disposable absorber circuit—Can they be

avoided? Proceedings of the 48th New York State Society of Anesthesiologists Postgraduate Assembly,

New York, 1994

AWARD

Best Poster Award, Pulse radiofrequency modulates the expression of regulatory genes along the

nociceptive pathways. Vallejo R, Aliaga L, Benyamin R, Montesinos S, Ojeda A, Nebreda C, Orduna J.

Spain Pain Society Meeting, Toledo, Spain 2014

Certificate of Appreciation for a scientific exhibit at the Annual Meeting of American Society of

Anesthesiologists, Atlanta, 1995

INVITED LECTURER (2014)

Does new spinal cord stimulation technology allow for better back coverage? What do studies say?

Session on the future of implantable devices, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain

Medicine, 13th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 2014

Spinal Cord Stimulation for Axial Low Back Pain: is it a viable option?

PBLD session, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 13th Annual Meeting, San

Francisco, California, November 2014

Vertebral Augmentation: Does it work? New York and New Jersey Societies of Interventional Pain

Physicians Pain Medicine Symposium, Jersey City, New Jersey, November 2014

Neuromodulation, American Osteopathic College of Radiology, Mid-Year meeting, Rosemont, Illinois,

October 2014

Interventional procedures for Facet Disease, American Osteopathic College of Radiology, Mid-Year

meeting, Rosemont, Illinois, October 2014

What is so Cool about Radiofrequency? Annual meeting of Indiana and Kentucky Societies of

Interventional Pain Physicians, Evansville, Indiana September 2014

Complications of Interventional Techniques, California Society of Interventional Pain Physicians Annual

Comprehensive review of Pain Management, Ranch Palos Verdes, California, September 2014

Complications of Interventional Techniques, Cadaver course-Basic, Intermediate, Advanced. American

Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2014

Sacroplasty, Cadaver course-Basic, Intermediate, Advanced. American Society of Interventional Pain

Physicians (ASIPP), Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2014

Lumbar Sympathetic Blocks, Spinal Interventional Techiques and Non-Spinal Interventional

Techniques, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, St. Louis, Missouri , June 2014

State of Pain Management, Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians annual meeting, Orlando,

Florida, May 2014

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Hip and Knee Injections for Interventionalists, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians 16th

Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana , April 2014

Make Your Office “Lobby Central”, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians 16th Annual

Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana , April 2014

Diagnostic Facet Joint Nerve Blocks, 0%, 50%, 80%. American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians 16

th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana , April 2014

Peripheral Nerve Stimulation “Bioness”, Cleveland Clinic 16th Annual Pain Management Symposium,

Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2014

Cooled Radio Frequency for the Hip and Knee Pain, Cleveland Clinic 16th Annual Pain Management

Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2014

Posterior approach to cervical facet procedure, Cleveland Clinic 16th Annual Pain Management

Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2014


MILD: Lumbar Decompression for Spinal Stenosis. New York and New Jersey Societies of

Interventional Pain Physicians Pain Medicine Symposium, Jersey City, New Jersey, November 2013

Electroanalgesia & Spinal Cord Stimulation, ASIPP Board Review, St Louis, Missouri, August 2013

Interventional Techniques, ASIPP Board Review, St Louis, Missouri, August 2013

What’s New in Cooled Radiofrequency? American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians 15th Annual

Meeting, Legislative Session & Capitol Hill Visits, Washington DC, June 2013

Avoiding Complications and Managing the Inevitable. Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver

Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2013

Vertebroplasty: Techniques. Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society

of Interventional Pain Physicians, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2013

Decompression for Spinal Stenosis. Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American

Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2013

Adaptive Stimulation, Cleveland Clinic 15th Annual Pain Management Symposium, Sarasota, Florida,

February 2013

Sacroplasty, Cleveland Clinic 15th Annual Pain Management Symposium, Sarasota, Florida, February

2013


Spinal Cord Stimulation Complications and Lead Placement, Comprehensive Review Course and

Cadaver Workshop – Basic, Intermediate, and ABIPP Preparation, American Society of Interventional

Pain Physicians, Denver, Colorado, November 2012

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Lumbar Transforaminal epidural and Lumbar Discography, Comprehensive Review Course and

Cadaver Workshop – Basic, Intermediate, and ABIPP Preparation, American Society of Interventional

Pain Physicians, Denver, Colorado, November 2012

mild® Patient Selection and Evidence, Pain Medicine Symposium 2012: Evolving Advanced Pain

Therapies, New York & New Jersey Societies of Interventional Pain Physicians, New York, New York,

October 2012

Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural and Lumbar Discography, Advanced Comprehensive Review Course

and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee,

September 2012

Spinal Cord Stimulation Complications and Lead Placement Advanced Comprehensive Review Course


September 2012

Troubleshooting and Complications for Beginners, Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver

Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, September 2012

Interventional Techniques, Comprehensive Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain Management Board

Review Course, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, St. Louis, Missouri, August 2012

Electroanalgesia and Spinal Cord Stimulation, Comprehensive Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain

Management Board Review Course, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, St. Louis,

Missouri, August 2012

Avoiding Complications and Managing the Inevitable, Advanced Spinal Cord Stimulation

Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, April 2012

High Frequency Stimulation, Advanced Spinal Cord Stimulation Comprehensive Review Course and

Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, April

2012

Complex Cases Presentations and Discussion Forum, Advanced Spinal Cord Stimulation

Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain

Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, April 2012

Lumbar Axial Pain: Case Presentations, Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop,

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Phoenix, Arizona, February 2012

Cervical and Thoracic Radicular Pain, Post Laminectomy Syndrome, and Intercostal Neuritis: Case

Presentations, Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians, Phoenix, Arizona, February 2012

Vertebral Compression Fractures: Vertebroplasty, Cleveland Clinic 14th Annual Pain Management

Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada, January, 2012

Update on Radiofrequency: Chronic Cervical Spine Pain, Cleveland Clinic 14th Annual Pain

Management Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2012

Evidence-Based Practice: Chronic Pain Guidelines: What is the real Value?, Cleveland Clinic 14th

Annual Pain Management Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2012

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Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural and Lumbar Discography, Advanced Comprehensive Review Course


November 2011

Cervical Facet Joint Interventions (Medial Branch Blocks and Radiofrequency Neurotomy) and Cervical

Interlaminar Epidural Injections, Advanced Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop,

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, November 2011


Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, November 2011

"The Future of Pain Advocacy: How Can We Bring the Various Pain Groups Together", American

Society of Anesthesiologists, 11th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, October 2011

Complex Cases, Presentations and Discussion Forum, Spinal Cord Stimulation Comprehensive Review

Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis,

Tennessee, September, 2011

Avoiding Complications and Managing the Inevitable, Spinal Cord Stimulation Comprehensive Review


Tennessee, September, 2011

Electroanalgesia and Spinal Cord Stimulation, Comprehensive Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain

Management Board Review Course, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, St. Louis,

Missouri, August, 2011

Introduction to Manchikanti Distinguished Lecture, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians’

13th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, June, 2011


Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, April, 2011

Lumbar Axial Pain: Case Presentations, Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop,

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, April, 2011

Evaluation of the Chronic Pain Patient, Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop,

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, April, 2011

Imaging for Interventionalists – Flouroscopy, Radiation Safety, and Needle Placement, Comprehensive

Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis,

Tennessee, April, 2011

Complications of Interventional Pain Management, 13th Annual Pain Management Symposium,

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, March 2011

Cervical Transforaminal: Diagnostic or Therapeutic?, 13th Annual Pain Management Symposium,

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, March 2011

Sacroplasty, 13th Annual Pain Management Symposium, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, March 2011


Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, February 2011


Interlaminar Epidural Injections, Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American

Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, February 2011

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Lumbar Discography, Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, February 2011

Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural and Lumbar Discography, Comprehensive Review Course and

Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee,

February 2011


Lumbar Discography, Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, November 2010

Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural and Lumbar Discography, Comprehensive Review Course and


November 2010

Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Injections, Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop,

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, November 2010


Interlaminar Epidural Injections, Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American

Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, November 2010

Peripheral Nerve Stimulation: Mechanism, Indications, Patient Selection, Spinal Cord Stimulation


Physicians & North American Neuromodulation Society, Memphis, Tennessee, September 2010

New Advances in the Treatment of Disc Disease, Third Annual Decatur Joint Chiropractic Neurosurgical

Spine Conference, Decatur, Illinois, September 2010

Spinal Interventional Techniques, Comprehensive Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain Management

Board Review Course, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Chicago, Illinois, August

2010

Electrostimulation, Comprehensive Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain Management Board Review

Course, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Chicago, Illinois, August 2010

Anatomy of Spine and Structural Basis of Pain, Comprehensive Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain

Management Board Review Course, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Chicago,

Illinois, August 2010

Central Pain States, Comprehensive Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain Management Board Review

Course, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Chicago, Illinois, August 2010

Radiofrequency Treatments, Brazilian Congress of Minimally-Invasive Spinal Surgery and Techniques,

Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2010

Complications of Interventional Pain Procedures, Brazilian Congress of Minimally-Invasive Spinal

Surgery and Techniques, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2010

Interventional Cervical Procedures, Brazilian Congress of Minimally-Invasive Spinal Surgery and

Techniques, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2010

Vertebroplasty & Sacroplasty, Brazilian Congress of Minimally-Invasive Spinal Surgery and Techniques,

Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2010

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Comparative Effectiveness Research of the Standards of Performance, 12th Annual Meeting of the

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Washington DC, June 2010

Joining the Political Arena: It is not the Same as Practicing Medicine! 12th Annual Meeting of the

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Washington DC, June 2010

Update on Intraspinal Delivery, 1st Dar Al Fouad Hospital International Pain Management Conference in

Collaboration with the Pain Department, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Giza, Egypt, April 2010

Review of Evidence of Epidural Steroid Injections, 1st Dar Al Fouad Hospital International Pain

Management Conference in Collaboration with the Pain Department, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Giza,

Egypt, April 2010

Technical Review of Lumbar Discography, 1st Dar Al Fouad Hospital International Pain Management

Conference in Collaboration with the Pain Department, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Giza, Egypt, April

2010

Complications of International Pain Management, 1st Dar Al Fouad Hospital International Pain

Management Conference in Collaboration with the Pain Department, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Giza,

Egypt, April 2010

Cervical Epidurals and Facet Joint Interventions, Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver

Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, April 2010

Lumbar Facet Joint Interventions and Sacroiliac Joint Interventions, Comprehensive Review Course and

Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, April

2010

Billing Fraud and Compliance, The 12th Annual Pain Management Symposium, Cleveland Clinic

Foundation, Coronado, California, March 2010

Complications of Interventional Pain Management, The 12th Annual Pain Management Symposium,

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Coronado, California, March 2010

My Technique: Sacroplasty, The 12th Annual Pain Management Symposium, Cleveland Clinic

Foundation, Coronado, California, March 2010


Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, February 2010


Interlaminar Epidural Injections: Relevant Anatomy, Technical Aspects, Complications, and Patient

Selection, Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional

Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, February 2010

Lumbar Discography: Relevant Anatomy, Technical Aspects, Complications, Evidence and Patient

Selection, Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional


Imaging for Interventionalists – Fluoroscopy, Radiation Safety, and Needle Placement, Comprehensive

Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis,

Tennessee, February 2010

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The Role of Radiofrequency in the Management of Lumbar Facetal Pain, Comprehensive Review

Course on Radiofrequency Interventional Pain Procedures, World Institute of Pain, London, England,

December 2009

Evidence for Vertebroplasty, Pain Management Symposium at Teknon Medical Center, Barcelona,

Spain, November 2009

Vertebroplasty: Benefits vs Risk and Complications, The Third Cornell Pain Medicine Symposium:

Evidence Based Practice and Updates in Pain Medicine, New York, New York, November 2009

Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty, Cadaver Workshop, Annual Meeting, American Society of

Anesthesiologists, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2009

The Sacroiliac Joint: Diagnosis, Annual Meeting, American Society of Anesthesiologists, New Orleans,

Louisiana, October 2009

Discography and Intradiscal Therapy – Anatomy and Technical Aspects, Comprehensive Review


Tennessee, October 2009

Current Status of Interventional Pain Management, Annual Meeting, Illinois Society of Interventional

Pain Physicians, Rosemont, Illinois, October 2009

Interventional Pain Management 2009 and the Future, Annual Meeting, Washington Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians, Seattle, Washington, October 2009

Evidence for Vertebroplasty, Annual Meeting, Washington Society of Interventional Pain Physicians,

Seattle, Washington, October 2009

Complications of Interventional Pain Treatment, The 14th Annual Advanced Interventional Pain

Conference and Practical Workshop & FIPP Examination Preparation course, Budapest, Hungary,

August, 2009

Intraspinal Drug Delivery Update, The 14th Annual Advanced Interventional Pain Conference and

Practical Workshop & FIPP Examination Preparation course, Budapest, Hungary, August, 2009

Celiac Plexus and Splanchnic Block, The 14th Annual Advanced Interventional Pain Conference and


Complications of Interventional Procedures, The 14th Annual Advanced Interventional Pain Conference

and Practical Workshop & FIPP Examination Preparation course, Budapest, Hungary, August, 2009

Vertebroplasty vs. Kyphoplasty, The 14th Annual Advanced Interventional Pain Conference and


An Update on Vertebroplasty and Sacroplasty, 5th Annual Pain Summit, Georgia Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians, Greensboro, Georgia, August 2009


Management Board Review Course, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, New Orleans,

Louisiana, August 2009


Board Review Course, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, New Orleans, Louisiana,

August 2009

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The Future of Pain Management, IV Scientific Journeys in Interventional Pain Treatment, Teknon

Foundation, Barcelona, Spain June 2009

Lumbar Discography: Technique, 1st Course in Interventional Pain Management and Cadaver

Workshop, Valencia, Spain June 2009

Controlled Substance Pharmacology: non-opioids, benzodiazepines, sedatives, hypnotics,

Comprehensive Review Course in Controlled Substance Management, American Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, May 2009

Percutaneous Vertebroplasty: Technique. Review Course and Cadaver Workshop in Vertebroplasty,

Kyphoplasty and, Sacroplasty, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis,

Tennessee, May 2009

Lumbar Discography & Intradiscal Therapies and Implantables, Interventional Techniques, Review

Course, Cadaver Workshop & ABIPP Part II (Practical Examination) Preparation, Memphis, Tennessee,

March 2009

My Technique: Sacroplasty. Eleventh Annual Pain Management Symposium, Cleveland Clinic

Foundation, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February 2009


Technical aspects of epidurals and adhesiolysis, Cadaver Workshop and Review Course in

Fluoroscopy, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, December

2008

Technical aspects of facet joint interventions, Cadaver Workshop and Review Course in Fluoroscopy,

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, December 2008

Peripheral Nerve Stimulation; Mechanism, Patient Selection, and Techniques. Spinal Cord Stimulation

and Intrathecal Implantable Infusion Systems Review Course & Cadaver Workshop, American Society

of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, October 2008

Technical Aspects of Intrathecal Pumps: Trial and permanent Implants, Spinal Cord Stimulation and

Intrathecal Implantable Infusion Systems Review Course & Cadaver Workshop, American Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, October 2008

Vertebroplasty, Annual Meeting Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Orlando,

Florida, October 2008

Interventional Pain Management in Cervical Spine, Pain Medicine Grand Rounds, Cornell University

Medical Center, New York, New York, October 2008

The Most Rewarding Intervention: Vertebroplasty, Midwest Pain Society, 32nd

Scientific Session,

Northwestern University medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, September 2008

Lumbar Discography: Review of Evidence, The 13th Annual Advanced Interventional Pain Conference

and Practical Workshop & FIPP Examination Preparation course, Budapest, Hungary, September, 2008

Complications of Interventional Pain Management, The 13th Annual Advanced Interventional Pain

Conference and Practical Workshop & FIPP Examination Preparation course, Budapest, Hungary,

September, 2008


Management Board Review Course, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Saint Louis,

Missouri, July 2008

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Board Review Course, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Saint Louis, Missouri, July

2008

An Update on benefits of Vertebral Augmentation, 3rd

International Symposium on Interventional Pain

Procedures, London, England, June 2008

Future of Pain Management, Pain Management Symposium at Teknon Medical Center, Barcelona,

Spain, June 2008

Intradiscal Therapies, 13th International Pain Clinic Congress, World Society of Pain Clinicians, Seoul,

South Korea, May 2008

Sacroplasty, 13th International Pain Clinic Congress, World Society of Pain Clinicians, Seoul, South

Korea, May 2008

Intra-Thecal Pumps, 13th

International Pain Clinic Congress, World Society of Pain Clinicians, Seoul,


Interventional Techniques in Cervical Spine, 13th International Pain Clinic Congress, World Society of

Pain Clinicians, Seoul, South Korea, May 2008

Cervical Spine Fluoroscopy, needle placement and interpretation, Review Course in Fluoroscopy,

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, May 2008

Thoracic Spine Fluoroscopy, needle placement and interpretation, Review Course in Fluoroscopy,

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, May 2008

An Update: Vertebroplasty & Sacroplasty, Annual Meeting, New Hampshire Society of Interventional

Pain Physicians, Manchester, New Hampshire, 2008

Lumbar Discography & Intradiscal Therapies, Review Course, Cadaver Workshop & FIPP Examination,

Memphis, Tennessee, March 2008

Percutaneous Vertebroplasty: Technique. Vertebroplasty, Kyphoplasty, Sacroplasty Review Course &


February 2008

Meet the Pain Specialist: Treatments for Chronic Pain, Center For Healthy Lifestyles, OSF St. Joseph

Medical Center, Bloomington, Illinois, January 2008

State of Interventional Pain Management & Millennium Pain Center, Millennium Pain Center-Monthly

Pain Lectures, Bloomington, Illinois, January 2008


Mechanism and Evidence of Spinal Cord Stimulation, Comprehensive Spinal Cord Stimulation Review

Course & Interventional Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians,

Memphis, Tennessee, December 2007

Vertebroplasty, Cadaver Workshop, Annual Meeting, American Society of Anesthesiologists, San

Francisco, California, October 2007

Cervical Discography, Interventional Techniques Review Course & Comprehensive Interventional

Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, October

2007

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IDET, Interventional Techniques Review Course & Comprehensive Interventional Cadaver Workshop,

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee , October 2007

DeKompressor, Interventional Techniques Review Course & Comprehensive Interventional Cadaver

Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and World Institute of Pain, Memphis,

Tennessee , October 2007

Spinal Cord Stimulation Controversies, Annual meeting, Kentucky Society of Interventional Pain

Physicians, Lexington, Kentucky, 2007

Discography and Percutaneous Disc Decompression Techniques, Comprehensive Pain Medicine Board

Review Course, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Nashville, Tennessee, August,

2007

Interventional Pain Management, A case for cost effectiveness, Pain Management Symposium at

Teknon Medical Center, Barcelona, Spain, 2007

Electro Stimulation, Comprehensive Pain Medicine Board Review Course, American Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians, Nashville, Tennessee, 2007

Intrathecal Therapies, Comprehensive Pain Medicine Board Review Course, American Society of


Synovial Joints of Spine, Comprehensive Pain Medicine Board Review Course, American Society of


Spinal Cord Stimulation: different technologies, 9th Annual Meeting, American Society of Interventional

Pain Physicians, Washington D.C., 2007

Vertebroplasty: the evidence, International Symposium on Evidence in Interventional Pain Therapy,

London, England, 2007

Epidural Steroids: the evidence, International Symposium on Evidence in Interventional Pain Therapy,

London, England, 2007

Review of Evidence in Discography, Case Conference, Central Illinois Neuroscience Foundation,

Bloomington, Illinois, 2007

Thoracic Discography, Advanced Interventional Techniques Review Course, American Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians and World Institute of Pain, Memphis, Tennessee, 2007

Cervical Discography, Advanced Interventional Techniques Review Course, American Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians and World Institute of Pain, Memphis, Tennessee, 2007

Discography, Interventional Techniques Review Course, American Society of Interventional Pain

Physicians and World Institute of Pain, Memphis, Tennessee, 2007

Intradiscal Treatments, Interventional Techniques Review Course, American Society of Interventional

Pain Physicians/ World Institute of Pain, Memphis, Tennessee, 2007

Percutaneous Vertebroplasty: Technique, Comprehensive Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty Review course

& Hands-on Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis,

Tennessee, 2007

Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty: Fact or Fiction? Comprehensive Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty Review

course & Hands-on Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis,

Tennessee, 2007

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State of Interventional Pain Management & Millennium Pain Center, Millennium Pain Center-Monthly

Pain lectures, Bloomington, Illinois, 2007

INVITED LECTURER (2006 & prior)

New Advances in Treatment of Low Back Pain, Low Back Pain Seminar, Central Illinois Neuroscience

Foundation, Bloomington, Illinois, 2006

Spinal Cord Stimulation, Interventional Techniques Review Course, American Society of Interventional

Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, 2006

Vertebroplasty, Interventional Techniques Review Course, American Society of Interventional Pain

Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, 2006

Interventional Pain management, Opioid Management Society, Miami, 2006

Interventional Pain management, Opioid Management Society, Philadelphia, 2006

Facts & Fiction: Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty, Interventional Techniques Review Course, American

Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, 2006

Controversies in Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty, Pain Foundation of Argentina, Interventional Pain

Cadaver Workshop, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006

Sacroplasty in treatment of Sacral Insufficiency Fractures, Pain Foundation of Argentina, First

Interventional Pain Cadaver Workshop, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006

Interventional Pain management, Inaugural Opioid Certification Program at Harvard Medical, Boston,

Massachusetts, 2006

Controversies in Vertebroplasty, Eighth Annual Pain Management Symposium, Cleveland Clinic

Foundation, Orlando, Florida, 2006

Interventional Pain Management, Medicine-Pediatrics Grand Rounds, College of Medicine, University of

Illinois Peoria, Illinois, 2006

New Advances in Pain Management, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana,

2005

Vertebroplasty, Second Puerto Rico Interventional Pain Workshop and Scientific Meeting, Pain in the

Tropics, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2005

New hope for FBSS?, BroMenn Regional Medical Center, Pain Lecture Series, Bloomington, Illinois,

2005

Use & Abuse of Opioid Medications, BroMenn Medical Group Grand Rounds, Bloomington, Illinois,

2004

New Advances in The Treatment of Back Pain, Arthritis Foundation meeting, Bloomington, Illinois, 2004

“Disc Nucleoplasty” in treatment of contained disc herniations, Neurosciences case conference,


Use of opioids in non-cancer pain, New Advances in Pain Management, CINF pain symposium,


First Report of “Vertebroplasty using The Cavity Creation System” in Illinois, Neuroscience case

conference, Bloomington, Illinois, 2003

34 Updated 1/9/2014

Use of opioids in non-cancer pain, BroMenn Medical Group Grand Rounds, Bloomington, Illinois, 2003

“IDET” in treatment of discogenic low back pain, BroMenn Pain Lecture Series, Bloomington, Illinois,

2003

Vertebroplasty for treatment of vertebral compression fractures, BroMenn Pain Lecture Series,


New Advances in Pain Management, Illinois Association of Physicians Assistants, Bloomington, Illinois,

2002

Vertebroplasty in treating compression fractures, BroMenn Pain Lecture Series, Bloomington, Illinois,

2002

Intra-thecal Baclofen pumps in treatment of spasticity, BroMenn Physical therapy meeting, Bloomington,

Illinois, 2002

Treatment of chronic pain, BroMenn Medical Group Grand Rounds, Bloomington, Illinois, 2002

Spinal Cord Stimulator in treatment of CRPS, Neurosciences case conference, Bloomington, Illinois,

2002

Review of Spinal Cord Stimulator and Spinal Morphine Pump, BroMenn staff, Bloomington, Illinois, 2000

What’s new in Pain Management, Medical staff grand rounds, OSF-St. Joseph Medical Center,


Anesthetic considerations in the diabetic parturient. Annual Midwest Obstetric Anesthesia Meeting,

Chicago, Illinois, 1995

COURSE DIRECTOR


Physicians (ASIPP), Orlando, Florida, October 2014

Cadaver course-Basic, Intermediate, Advanced. American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians

(ASIPP), Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2014

Spinal and Non-Spinal Interventional Techniques, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians

(ASIPP), St. Louis, Missouri , June 2014

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) 16th Annual Meeting, New Orleans,

Louisiana , April 2014

ASIPP Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, Denver, COlorado, October 2013

ASIPP Board Review course, St Louis, Missouri, August 2013

ASIPP 15th Annual Meeting Legislative Session & Capitol Hill Visits, Washington DC, June 2013

ASIPP Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2013

ASIPP Board Review Course, San Francisco, California, August 2012

ASIPP 14th Annual Meeting Legislative Session & Capitol Hill Visits, Arlington Virginia, June 2012

35 Updated 1/9/2014

ASIPP Intermediate and Advanced Spinal Cord Stimulation Course Comprehensive Review Course and

Cadaver Workshop, Memphis, Tennessee, April 2012

ASIPP Spinal Cord Stimulation Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop (Avoiding

Complications and Managing the Inevitable), Memphis, Tennessee, September 2011

ASIPP Board Review Course, St Louis, Missouri, August 2011

ASIPP Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop (Basic, Intermediate, and

Comprehensive Interventional Pain Management Examination Preparation Course), Memphis,

Tennessee, April 2011

ASIPP Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop (Basic, Intermediate, and

Comprehensive Interventional Pain Management Examination Preparation Course), Memphis,

Tennessee, February 2011

ASIPP Coding, Compliance and Practice Management Comprehensive Review Course, Memphis,

Tennessee, November 2010

ASIPP Spinal Cord Stimulation Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, & North

American Neuromodulation Society, Memphis, Tennessee, September 2010

Comprehensive Imaging Review Course, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians & North

American Neuromodulation Society, Memphis, Tennessee, September 2010

ASIPP Comprehensive Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain Management Board Review Course,

Chicago, Illinois, August 2010

ASIPP Comprehensive Review Course in Controlled Substance Management and Coding and

Compliance, Chicago, Illinois, August 2010

ASIPP 12th Annual Meeting, Evidence-Based Medicine, Comparative Effectiveness, and Practice

Management, Washington DC, June 2010

ASIPP Documentation for Dummies: Practical Documentation, Billing, Coding, and Compliance for

Interventional Pain Practices, Memphis, Tennessee, April 2010



Comprehensive Didactic Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional



Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, October 2009

Practical Documentation, Billing, Coding, and Compliance for Interventional Pain Practices, American

Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, October 2009

Comprehensive Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain Management Board Review Course, American

Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 2009

Comprehensive Review Course in Controlled Substance Management and Coding and Compliance,

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 2009



36 Updated 1/9/2014


Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, March 2009

Interventional Techniques, Review Course, Cadaver Workshop & ABIPP Part II (Practical Examination)

Preparation, Memphis, Tennessee, March 2009


Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Saint Louis, Missouri, July 2008

Cadaver Workshop in Spinal and Non-Spinal Interventional Techniques, American Society of


Comprehensive Spinal Cord Stimulation Review Course & Interventional Cadaver Workshop, American

Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, December 2007

Third Annual Conference on New Advances in Pain Management, Illinois State University, Bloomington,

Illinois, 2005

Second Annual Conference on New Advances in Pain Management, Illinois State University,


New Advances in Pain Management, Central Illinois Neuroscience Foundation Pain Seminar,


FACULTY

New York and New Jersey Societies of Interventional Pain Physicians Pain Medicine Symposium,

Jersey City, New Jersey, November 2014


Physicians (ASIPP), Orlando, Florida, October 2014

ASIPP Cadaver-Basic, Intermediate, Advanced and Ultrasound for Non-Spinal injections. Las Vegas,

Nevada, August 2014

ASIPP Spinal Interventional Techniques and Non-Spinal Interventional Techniques, St. Louis, Missouri ,

June 2014

Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians annual meeting, Orlando, Florida, May 2014

ASIPP 16th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana , April 2014

Cleveland Clinic 16th Annual Pain Management Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2014


Physicians (ASIPP), Phoenix, Arizona, February 2014

Pain Medicine Symposium 2013: Evolving Advanced Pain Therapies, New Jersey and New York

Societies of Interventional Pain Physicians, New York, New York, November 2013


Physicians, Denver, Colorado, October 2013


37 Updated 1/9/2014

Cadaver workshop and video lectures, ASIPP, Phoenix, Arizona, February 2013

Cleveland Clinic 15th Annual Pain Management Symposium, Sarasota, Florida, February 2013


Physicians, Las Vegas, Nevada 2013


Physicians, Denver, Colorado, November 2012

Pain Medicine Symposium 2012: Evolving Advanced Pain Therapies, New Jersey and New York

Societies of Interventional Pain Physicians, New York, New York, October 2012


Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, September 2012


Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, San Francisco, California August 2012

ASIPP 14th Annual Meeting Legislative Session & Capitol Hill Visits, Arlington Virginia, June 2012

Advanced Spinal Cord Stimulation Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American

Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, April 2012


Physicians, Phoenix, Arizona, February 2012

Cleveland Clinic 14th Annual Pain Management Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada 2012


Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, November 2011

Spinal Cord Stimulation Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, September, 2011


ASIPP 13th Annual Meeting Legislative Session & Capitol Hill Visits, Arlington, Virginia, June 2011

Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of International Pain


Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of International Pain

Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, February 2011

13th Annual Pain Management Symposium, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, March 2011


Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, November 2010

Spinal Cord Stimulation Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians & North American Neuromodulation Society, Memphis, Tennessee,

September 2010


Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Chicago, Illinois, August 2010


American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Chicago, Illinois, August 2010

38 Updated 1/9/2014

Brazilian Congress of Minimally-Invasive Spinal Surgery and Techniques, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2010

Evidence-Based Medicine, Comparative Effectiveness, and Practice Management, 12th Annual Meeting

of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Washington DC, June 2010

IV Scientific Journeys in Interventional Pain Treatment, Teknon Foundation, Barcelona, Spain June

2009

1st Course in Interventional Pain Management and Cadaver Workshop, Valencia, Spain, June 2009

1st Dar Al Fouad Hospital International Pain Management Conference in Collaboration with the Pain

Department, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Giza, Egypt, April 2010

Documentation for Dummies: Practical Documentation, Billing, Coding, and Compliance for

Interventional Pain Practices, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis,

Tennessee, April 2010

The 12th Annual Pain Management Symposium, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Coronado, California,

March 2010

Controlled Substance Management Comprehensive Review Course, American Society of Interventional


Comprehensive Didactic Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, American Society of Interventional


Comprehensive Review Course on Radiofrequency Interventional Pain Procedures and Hands-on

Cadaver Workshop, World Institute of Pain, London, England, December 2009

Cadaver Workshop in Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty, American Society of Anesthesiologists, New

Orleans, Louisiana, October 2009


Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, October 2009


Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 2009


American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 2009



Review Course and Cadaver Workshop in Vertebroplasty, Kyphoplasty and, Sacroplasty, American

Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, May 2009

Interventional Techniques, Review Course, Cadaver Workshop & ABIPP Part II (Practical Examination)

Preparation, Memphis, Tennessee, March 2009

The 11th Annual Pain Management Symposium, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Fort Lauderdale, Florida,

February 2009

Cadaver Workshop and Review Course in Fluoroscopy, American Society of Interventional Pain

Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, December 2008

Spinal Cord Stimulation and Intrathecal Implantable Infusion Systems Review Course & Cadaver

Workshop, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, October 2008

39 Updated 1/9/2014

World Institute of Pain, Review course & Cadaver workshop, Budapest, Hungary, September 2008


Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Saint Louis, Missouri, July 2008

6th UK hands-on Cadaver Workshop on Interventional Pain Procedures, World Institute of Pain, London,

England, June 2008

Cadaver Workshop in Spinal and Non-Spinal Interventional Techniques, American Society of


Faculty & Moderator, 13th International Pain Clinic Congress, World Society of Pain Clinicians, Seoul,


Review Course, Cadaver Workshop & FIPP Examination, Memphis, Tennessee, March 2008

Vertebroplasty, Kyphoplasty, Sacroplasty Review Course & Cadaver Workshop, American Society of

Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, February 2008

Comprehensive Spinal Cord Stimulation Review Course & Interventional Cadaver Workshop, American

Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, December 2007

Faculty & Moderator, Annual Meeting, American Society of Anesthesiologists, San Francisco, California,

October 2007

Interventional Techniques Review Course & Comprehensive Interventional Cadaver Workshop,

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee, October 2007

World Institute of Pain, Review course & Cadaver workshop, Budapest, Hungary, 2007

Annual Meeting, Kentucky Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Lexington, KY, 2007

Comprehensive Pain Medicine Board Review Course, American Society of Interventional Pain

Physicians, Nashville, Tennessee, August 2007

5th UK hands-on Cadaver Workshop on Interventional Pain Procedures, World Institute of Pain, London,

England, 2007

Interventional Techniques Review Course & Comprehensive Interventional Cadaver Workshop,

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and World Institute of Pain, Memphis, Tennessee ,

March 2007

Comprehensive Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty Review course & Hands-on Cadaver Workshop,

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Memphis, Tennessee , February 2007

The 9th Annual Pain Management Symposium, Department of Pain Management, Cleveland Clinic

Foundation, Orlando, Florida, February 2007

Opioid Management Society, Opioid Education Program, Miami, 2006

American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Lumbar spine cadaver workshop, Memphis,

Tennessee, 2006

Opioid Management Society, Opioid Education Program, Philadelphia, 2006

World Institute of Pain, Review course & Cadaver workshop, Budapest, Hungary, 2006


Tennessee, 2006

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Pain Foundation of Argentina, Interventional Pain Management review course and First Cadaver

Workshop, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006

Opioid Management Society, Inaugural Opioid Certification Program at Harvard Medical, Boston,

Massachusetts, 2006

American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians, Review course and Cadaver workshop, Memphis,

Tennessee, 2006

Eighth Annual Pain Management Symposium and Cadaver workshop, Cleveland Clinic Foundation,

Orlando, Florida, 2006


Tennessee, 2005

Review course & cadaver workshop, Pain Topics in Tropics, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2005


Tennessee, June 2004

Sixth Annual Pain Management Symposium, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Orlando, Florida, 2004

Medical Coordinator, BroMenn Regional Medical Center, Monthly Pain Lecture series, Bloomington,

Illinois, 2002–2006

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