Many committee members start new terms at the close of the 48th Annual Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Meeting on April 22, 2023. Please welcome these new members, as well as those who will be continuing service in their roles.

Remember: applications for committee members are accepted in September of each year. Learn more about ASRA Pain Medicine committees here.

John J. Bonica Award Committee
Steven Cohen, MD, Chair
Oscar de Leon-Casaola, MD
Lynn Kohan, MD
Anne Marie McKenzie-Brown, MD (term begins April 2023)
Rene Przkora, MD

Distinguished Service Award Committee
Carlos Pino, MD, Chair
Andrea Chadwick, MD, MS (term begins April 2023)
Stephen Haskins, MD
Hariharan Shankar, MD
Kevin Vorenkamp, MD

Gaston Labat Award Committee
Sandra Kopp, MD, Chair (term begins April 2023)
Vincent Chan, MD, FRCPC, FRCA
F Kayser Enneking, MD
Rajnish Gupta, MD
Ed Mariano, MD  

Presidential Scholar Award Committee
David Provenzano, MD, President (term begins April 2023)
Samer Narouze, MD, Immediate Past President (term begins April 2023)
Eugene Viscusi, MD, Past President (term begins April 2023)
Honorio Benzo, MD (term begins April 2023)
Ki Jinn Chin, MBBS, FANZCA, FRCPA (term begins April 2023)

CME Committee
Stuart Grant, MB ChB, FRCA, Chair (term begins April 2023)
Maxim Eckmann, MD, Vice-Chair 
Christine Hunt, MD
Jeff Gadsden, MD
Richard Rosenquist, MD (term begins April 2023)
Hariharan Shankar, MD 
Ban Tsui, MD (term begins April 2023)
Jeff Xu, MD

Communications Committee
Rajnish Gupta, MD, Chair (term begins April 2023)
Dalia Elmofty, MD, Chair, Newsletter 
Alicia Warlick, MD, Vice-Chair, Website and Social Media 

Faculty Development Committee 
Meg Rosenblatt, MD, Chair (term begins April 2023)
Richard Rosenquist, MD, Vice-Chair (term begins April 2023)
Sanjib Adhikary, MD (term begins April 2023)
Magdalena Anitescu, MD
Jay Grider, MD (term begins April 2023)
Jonathan Hausman, MD (term begins April 2023)
Ariana Nelson, MD (term begins April 2023)
Steven Porter, MD
Ashley Shilling, MD (term begins April 2023)

Freestanding Courses Committee
Antoun Nader, MD, Chair
Stuart A. Grant, MB ChB, FRCA
Hari Kalagara, MD
Dmitri Souza, MD, PhD

Guidelines and Regulatory Advocacy Committee
Carlos Pino, MD, Chair 
Eric Schwenk, MD, Vice-Chair
Karen Boretsky, MD (term begins April 2023)
Richard Chou, MD (term begins April 2023)
Michael Hanes, MD (term begins April 2023)
Christina Jeng, MD
Mag Mina, MD
Ariana Nelson, MD (term begins April 2023)
Harsha Shanthanna, MD, MBBS (term begins April 2023)
Eellan Sivanesan, MD (term begins April 2023)
Alexandru Visan, MD (term begins April 2023)
Eric Wang, MD (term begins April 2023)

Industry Relations Committee
Jeff Gadsden, MD, Chair
Carlos Pino, MD, Vice-Chair (term begins April 2023)
Jeffrey Grzybowski, MD (term begins April 2023)
Lauren Nakazawa, MD (term begins April 2023)
Keith Scarfo, MD (term begins April 2023)
Gary Schwartz, MD
Tiffany Tedor, MD (term begins April 2023)
Eugene Viscusi, MD (term begins April 2023)
Samantha Yeap, MD

Membership Committee
Lynn Kohan, MD, Chair 
Stuart Grant, MD, Board Liaison
Jan Boublik, MD, PhD, Chair of SIGs (term begins April 2023)  
Alberto Ardon, MD
Alexander Bautista, MD (term begins April 2023)
Abhijit Biswas, MD 
Brian Bobzien, MD (term begins April 2023)
Bradley Budde, MD (term begins April 2023)
Mary Hargett, B Sc (term begins April 2023)
Andrew Mendelson, MD (term begins April 2023)
Sudheer Potru, DO
Bridget Pulos, MD (term begins April 2023)
Marissa Weber, MD (term begins April 2023)

Research Committee
Gina Votta-Velis, MD, PhD, Chair (term begins April 2023)
Rebecca Johnson, MD, Vice-Chair (term begins April 2023)
Meredith Adams, MD
Anuj Bhatia, MD, MBBS, FRCA, FRCPC (term begins April 2023)
Clifford Bowens, MD (term begins April 2023)
Andrea Chadwick, MD, MS
Yashar Eshraghi, MD (term begins April 2023)
Nick Knezevic, MD (term begins April 2023)
Dan McIssac, MD
Eman Nada, MD (term begins April 2023)
Jashvant Poeran, MD
Rakesh Sondekoppam, MD

Resident Section Committee
Siyun Xie, MD, Chair (term begins April 2023
Anishinder Parkash, MD, Chair-Elect (term begins April 2023)
Jaime Baratta, MD, Faculty Advisor Regional Anesthesia (term begins April 2023)
Sayed Wahezi, MD, Faculty Advisor Pain Medicine (term begins April 2023)

Website and Social Media Committee
Rajnish Gupta, MD, Chair (term begins April 2023)
Alicia Warlick, MD, Vice-Chair
Alexios Carayannopoulos, MD (term begins April 2023)
Connie Chung, MD (term begins April 2023)
Tina Doshi, MD (term begins April 2023)
Ryan D'Souza, MD
Vinny Francio, MD (term begins April 2023)
Vasudha Goel, MD
Melody Herman, MD
Heather Jackson, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, NEA-BC (term begins April 2023)
Jamina John, MSN, RN, APRN-BC (term begins April 2023)
Hari Kalagara, MD (term begins April 2023)
Karen Nielsen, MD
Sudheer Potru, DO (term begins April 2023)
Jama Shah, MD
Soun Sheen, MD (term begins April 2023)
Siyun Xie, MD (term begins April 2023)