Description
DRG Stimulation
•Patient Selection and Complications – Lynn Kohan MD
•Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation Outcomes – Ameet Nagpal MD
•Future Directions – Michael Leong MD
Contributors
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Lynn Kohan, MD
Dr. Lynn Kohan is a professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Virginia. She currently serves as the Division Chief and Medical Director of Pain Medicine as well as the Program Director of the Chronic Pain Fellowship. She serves on the BOD of AAPM as well as the chair of the fellowship committee. She is also a member of the development task force and research committee. She was recently elected to the BOD of ASRA Pain Medicine and begins her term in April 2023. She serves as the chair of the membership committee for ASRA Pain Medicine. Additionally, she is the current president-elect for the specialty program directors of the SAAAPM and the president of the APPD. She serves on numerous editorial board for pain medicine journals and is an invited national speaker.
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Ameet S. Nagpal, MD MS MEd
Dr. Nagpal is a board certified PM&R and Pain Medicine physician who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at UT Health San Antonio. He is the Associate Program Director of the Pain Medicine Fellowship at UT Health SA and the Medical Director of the UT Health SA Pain Medicine Clinic as well. He has a Master’s in Science in Biophysics from Georgetown University and a Master’s in Education in Health Care Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Houston. He completed medical school in 2008 from New York Medical College and went on to complete his PM&R Residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston/Baylor College of Medicine PM&R Alliance Program and his Pain Medicine Fellowship at UT Health SA.
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Michael S. Leong, MD
Dr. Leong is a specialist in pain medicine with clinical foci on neuromodulation: spinal cord stimulation and intrathecal analgesia, as well as legislative advocacy. He received his medical degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and completed his residency in anesthesiology at University of California, Davis and at Stanford University, where he also completed his fellowship in pain medicine. He is board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology. Dr. Leong is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at Stanford University.