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ChairmanMahmood-Reza Alebouyeh
- Professor of Anesthesiology, MD
- Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Paid Salary: Iranian Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ISRAPM)
- Monetary or in-kind compensation for self or household member from an organization that may in any way gain or lose financially or in any other way from the publication of papers in Brieflands:
- Reimbursement for attending a conference or symposium, Accommodation and travel or Fees for speaking: No
- Fees for organizing education or funds for research from Publisher: No
- Stocks or shares in Publisher: No
- Other competing interests related to the journal: Not Declared
- Email:
- dr.alebouyeh1@gmail.com
Published articles in this journal 12 out of 1107
Editor-in-ChiefFarnad Imani
- Professor, MD, FIPP
- Pain Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 1359
Published articles in this journal 90 out of 1107
International Editorials

Arthur Christopher Hertling
- Professor
- Department of Anesthesiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 3

Andrea M. Trescot
- Professor and Director of Pain Fellowship program, University of Washington
- Director, Pain and Headache Centers, USA
- Past President, ASIPP
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 1
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Elliot Krames
- MD
- Founder and Emeritus Editor-In-Chief of Neuromodulation Journal, USA
- Past President International Neuromodulation Society
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 1
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Bardia Amirlak
- Associate Professor
- Department of Plastic Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 1
- Published articles in this journal: 1

Giustino Varrassi
- Professor, President
- World Institute of Pain
- Paolo Procacci Foundation, Italy
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 20

Kenneth Candido
- Professor and Chairman
- Department of Anesthesiology, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical center, University of Illinois, USA
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 1
- Published articles in this journal: 1

Susilo Chandra
- Professor
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 4
- Published articles in this journal: 6

D. John Doyle
- Professor
- Cleveland Clinic, Institute of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, USA
- Past President, The Society for Airway Management
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 3
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Stephen P. Gatt
- MD, FRCA
- The University of Sydney, Australia
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 1
- Published articles in this journal: 1

Salim Hayek
- MD, PhD, FIPP, ABIPP
- Prof and Chief
- Division of Pain Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, USA
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Vikram Patelm
- MD, FIPP, DABIPP
- Phoenix Interventional Center for Advanced Learning, USA
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Ali Nima Shariat
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Anesthesiology, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, USA
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 3
- Published articles in this journal: 1

Menno Sluijter
- Professor
- Department of Pain Medicine, Swiss Paraplegic Centre, Switzerland
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 3

Nicholas Hai Liang Chua
- MD, PhD, DAAPM, FIPP
- President, Pain Association of Singapore
- Mount Elizabeth Medical Center, Singapore
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 4

David Abejón
- MD, PhD, FIPP
- Head of Unit Pain, Hospital Universitario Quiron Salud, Spain
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 1

Pasquale De Negri
- MD, FIPP, EDPM
- Department of Surgical Oncology and Pain Medicine, IRCCS, Italy
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 2
- Published articles in this journal: 1

Behnam Jafarpour
- MD
- President, Advanced NeuroSpine Pain Management, USA
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Philippe Mavrocordatos
- MD, PhD, SSIPM, FIPP
- Director and Founder, SWISS Pain Institute
- President, Swiss Interventional Pain Management Society, Switzerland
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Kyung-Hoon Kim
- Professor
- Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Pusan National University, South Korea
- Founder, International Spinal Pain Society
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 1

George II Mychaskiw
- Professor and Founding Dean, Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, USA
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 1

Gauhar Afshan
- Professor
- Department of Anesthesiology, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
- President, Pakistan Society for treatment & Study of Pain
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 2
- Published articles in this journal: 1

Peter Staats
- MD, MBA, ABIPP, FIPP
- President-Elect, World Institute of Pain
- Past President, ASIPP
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Hariharan Shankar
- Professor
- Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 2
Gülçihan Ulufer Sivrikaya
- MD
- Academy of Interventional Medicine, Education and Simulation, Turkey
- President, Society of Medical Simulation in Turkey
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 1
- Published articles in this journal: 2

Ernesto Pretto
- Professor and Chief
- Division of Transplant and Vascular Anesthesia, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, USA
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 1
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Frank JE Falco
- MD, ABIPP
- Mid Atlantic Spine and Pain Physicians, USA
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0
Tariq Hayat Khan
- MBBS, DA, MCPS, FCPS
- Department of Anesthesiology, KRL General Hospital, Pakistan
- Editor in Chief, APICARE Journal
- President, Pakistan Resuscitation Society
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Ivano Dones
- MD
- Department of Neurosurgery, Unit for the Surgical Treatment of Pain and Spasticity, IRCCS Foundation Neurological Institute Carlo Besta, Italy
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Thomas T. Simopoulos
- MD, MA
- Chief, Division of Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 4
Nedim Solaković
- MD
- Chief
- Department of Anesthesiology, Cantonal Hospital Bihac, Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 6
- Published articles in this journal: 1
Danesh Mazloomdoost
- MD
- Wellward Regenerative Medicine, USA
- Completed assignments: 1
- Published articles in this journal: 0
Mohamed Mohi Eldin
- Professor and Chair
- Department of Neurosurgery, Cairo University, Egypt
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Girija P. Rath
- Professor
- Department of Neuroanesthesiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 1
- Published articles in this journal: 1
Sumitra G. Bakshi
- MBBS, MD, DNB
- Department of Anesthesiology, Homi Bhabha National Institute, India
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 2
- Published articles in this journal: 1
Fred E. Shapiro
- DO, FASA
- Associate Professor
- Department of Anesthesiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Nameer R. Haider
- MD, DABPM
- Founder, OMNI Minimally Invasive Pain Institute, USA
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0
Alexandre Teixeira
- MD, FIPP
- Consultant in Pain Medicine, Porto, Portugal
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 2
- Published articles in this journal: 2
National Editorials

Masood Mohseni
- Associate Professor
- Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 146
- Published articles in this journal: 17

Alireza Mirkhesthti
- Associate Professor
- Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 65
- Published articles in this journal: 12

Mohsen Ziyaeifard
- Professor
- Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 75
- Published articles in this journal: 10

Bahram Naderi Nabi
- Associate Professor
- Department of Anesthesiology, Alzahra Hospital, Guilan University, Guilan, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 44
- Published articles in this journal: 19

Poupak Rahimzadeh
- Professor, MD, FIPP
- Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehan, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 151
- Published articles in this journal: 30

Fardin Yousefshahi
- Professor, MD
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 24
- Published articles in this journal: 14

Rasoul Azarfarin
- Professor
- Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 92
- Published articles in this journal: 11

Farsad Imani
- Assistant Professor
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 60
- Published articles in this journal: 15

Reza Shariat Moharari
- Professor
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 5
- Published articles in this journal: 12

Seyed Hamid Reza Faiz
- Professor
- Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 53
- Published articles in this journal: 20
Saeid Safari
- Professor
- Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 41

Hassan Soleimanpour
- Professor
- Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 72
- Published articles in this journal: 21
Saeed Reza Entezary
- Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 39
- Published articles in this journal: 4

Professor Mohammad Bagher Khosravi
- Professor
- Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Dr Mir Mousa Aghdashi
- associate professor
- Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia , Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 2

Dawood Aghamohamdi
- Tabriz University of Medical Science, Tabriz, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 1
- Published articles in this journal: 4

Ghodrat Akhavan Akbari
- Associate Professor
- Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 3
- Published articles in this journal: 1

Ata Mahmoodpoor
- Professor
- Tabriz University of Medical, Tabriz, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 43
- Published articles in this journal: 18

Mohammad Hossein Bakhshaei
- Associate Professor
- Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 1
- Published articles in this journal: 2

Faramarz Mosaffa
- Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 9

Farhad Etezadi
- Professor
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 8
- Published articles in this journal: 11
Mohammad Radmehr
- Jahrom Medical University, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Seyed Alireza Seyed Siamdoust
- Associate Professor, MD
- Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 24
- Published articles in this journal: 6
Helen Gharaei
- Azargan Pain Clinic, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 3

Mohammad Haghighi
- Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Guilan, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 40
- Published articles in this journal: 2

Abbas Haghparast
- Professor
- Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Reza Aminnejad
- MD.
- Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 27
- Published articles in this journal: 9

Masoud Hashemi
- Associate Professor
- Shahid Beheshti Medical University, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 9
- Published articles in this journal: 9

Zahid Hussain Khan
- Professor, M.D
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 1
- Published articles in this journal: 3

Arman Taheri
- Associate Professor
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Alireza Khajehnasiri
- Shariati Hospital, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 14
- Published articles in this journal: 1
Maryam Zafarghandi
- Iran
- Completed assignments: 12
- Published articles in this journal: 0
Editorial Manager

Parisa Bahmani
- Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research Center, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Methodological Consultant
Alireza Ahmadvand
- Iran
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0

Hooman Bakhshandeh
- Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 1
- Published articles in this journal: 1

Mahsa Motavaf
- Iran
- Academic profiles:
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 2
Peiman Habibollahi
- USA
- Completed assignments: 0
- Published articles in this journal: 0
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Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS)
Iranian Neuroscience Society (INSS)
World Institute of Pain (WIP), Iran Section
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Kamran Mahmoodi
- Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
- Academic profiles:
Completed assignments 312Azadeh Emami
- Pain Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
Completed assignments 168
Faranak Rokhtabnak
- Department of Anesthesiology, Firoozgar Hospital, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
Completed assignments 148
Behzad Nazemroaya
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
- Academic profiles:
Completed assignments 146Faranak Behnaz
- Shohada-e Tajrish Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
Completed assignments 98Behrooz Zaman
- Pain Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
Completed assignments 110Zahra M. Jalali
- Pain Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
Completed assignments 216Kambiz Sadegi
- Department of Anesthesiology, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran
- Academic profiles:
Completed assignments 54Pooya Derakhshan
- Pain Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
Completed assignments 73Kamal Fani
- Anesthesiology Department, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
Completed assignments 42Nasim Nikoubakht
- Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Hazrat-e Rasool General Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academic profiles:
Completed assignments 32Gelareh Biazar
- Anesthesiology Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Alzahra Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
- Academic profiles:
Completed assignments 30








