ABOUT OUR PROFESSIONALS

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD

• Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, ASIPP and SIPMS
• Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
• Medical Director, Pain Management Center of Paducah and Ambulatory Surgery Center, Paducah Kentucky; Pain Management Center of Marion and Pain Care Surgery, Marion, Illinois

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, M.D., is the Medical Director of the Pain Management Centers of Paducah, KY, and Marion, IL, and the Ambulatory Surgery Center in Paducah, KY, and Pain Care Surgery in Marion, IL. He is also Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY.

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

He serves as a member on the Kentucky Carrier Advisory Committee (KCAC). He also served as a member on the Murray State University Board of Regents, 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 testiû
ed before Congress on various occasions as an expert witness on controlled substance management and interventional pain management.

Dr. Manchikanti has published in over 300 publications and serves on several editorial boards.

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

		Foundations of Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain Management: A Comprehensive Review. 2011.
		Clinical Aspects of Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain Management: A Comprehensive Review. 2011.
		Pain Medicine anad Interventional Pain Management Board Review Self-Assessment. 2011.
		Interventional Techniques in Chronic Non-Spinal Pain. 2009
		Interventional Techniques in Chronic Spinal Pain. 2008
		Principles of Documentation, Billing, Coding & Practice Management for the Interventional Pain Professional. 2004
		Interventional Pain Management: Low Back Pain - Diagnosis and Treatment. 2002
		Interventional Pain Management: Documentation, Coding, and Billing - A Practical Guide for Physicians and ASCs. 2002