ABOUT OUR PROFESSIONALS

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD

• Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, ASIPP and SIPMS
• Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
• Medical Director, Pain Management Center of Paducah, Kentucky

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, M.D., is the Medical Director of the Pain Management Center of Paducah and Ambulatory Surgery Center in Paducah, Kentucky, encompassing a multidisciplinary pain program. He is also Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

He has been in private practice in Paducah, Kentucky, since completion of a fellowship in anesthesiology and critical care medicine in 1980. He graduated from Gandhi Medical College, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He completed his internship and residency in anesthesiology at Gandhi Hospital, Youngstown Hospital Association, (North Eastern Ohio School of Medicine), Allegheny General Hospital, and his fellowship in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Manchikanti is certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology along with subspecialty certiû
cation in Pain Medicine, the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP), American Board of Pain Medicine, and is a Fellow in Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP). Dr. Manchikanti is a member of numerous professional societies and associations. He is the founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, the Society of Interventional Pain Management Surgery Centers, and many State Societies of Interventional Pain Physicians. He is also the founder of the Pain Physician Journal, ABIPP, and the ASIPP Foundation.

He is a member of the Murray State University Board of Regents and has served in the past as a member of the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure (KBML) and of the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC). Through his work with various organizations, Manchikanti has been instrumental in the preservation of Interventional Pain Management through specialty designation, mandatory Carrier Advisory Committee (CAC) representation, reimbursement, and the passage of NASPER. Manchikanti has testified before Congress on various occasions as an expert witness on controlled substance management and interventional pain management.

Dr. Manchikanti has multiple academic interests; initially in anesthesiology, followed by Interventional Pain Management, not only the scientific aspects, but also in aspects of practice management. He has published over 230 publications and serves on several editorial boards.

Dr. Manchikanti is also the editor of four books designed for interventionalists:

		Interventional Techniques in Chronic Non-Spinal Pain. in press 2008
		Interventional Techniques In Chronic Spinal Pain. 2007
		Principles of Documentation, Billing, Coding & Practice Management for the Interventional Pain Professional. 2004
		Low Back Pain: An Interventional Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment. 2002
		Documentation Coding and Billing in Interventional Pain Medicine. 2002