Eastern Pain Association Board of Directors 

Executive Committee
President 
Christopher Gharibo, MD
Medical Director of Pain Medicine
New York University - Langone Orthopedic Hospital 
Langone Medical Center
New York, NY

Executive Committee
President-Elect 
Neel Mehta, MD
Medical Director, Pain Medicine, Weill-Cornell Pain Medicine Center and New York Presbyterian Hosp
Co-Director, Weill Cornell Mutli-Disciplinary Spine Center
New York, NY

Executive Committee
Secretary
Baruch Kim, DO
Pain Fellow 

Department of

Anesthesiology 

New York University Langone Health 

Founder of BestDocz 

New York County Medical Society Board Member 

New York, NY 

Executive Committee
Treasurer
Peter Lascarides, DO
Pain Medicine Physician, Pain Institute of Long Island
Clinical Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitaion, NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine
Assistant Professor of Clinical Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Stony Brook University Hospital
Treasurer, Eastern Pain Association

Executive Committee
Immediate Past President
Naum Shaparin, MD, MBA
Director, Pain Service, Montefiore Medical Center Director, Montefiore Multidisciplinary Pain Center
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and
Associate Professor of Family & Social Medicine and
Associate Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Executive Committee
Parliamentarian
William K. Schmidt, PhD

Psychologist, Writer 

Past President of the EPA
President NorthStar Consulting, LLC

Director At Large
Charles Argoff, MD
Professor of Neurology
Albany Medical College
Director, Comprehensive Pain Center
Albany Medical Center

Director At Large
Nitin Sekhri, MD
Medical Director, Pain Management 
Department of Anesthesiology
Assistant Professor
New York Medical College
Westchester Medical Center Health Network

Director at Large
Communications & Technology Resident Liaison
Yu Chiu, DO
Pain Fellow Department of Anesthesia Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Founder of ReGenMed101
 

Director At Large
Hillary D. White, PhD
Neuroendocrine Immunologist
Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor
White Mountain Pharma Inc
Adjust Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Lebanon, NH

Director At Large
Lisa R. Witkin, MD
Site Director of Pain Medicine 
at New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan 
Weill Cronell Medicine
New York NY

Director At Large
John J. Michalisin, Jr., MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Clinical Assistant Professor of PM&R
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain Medicine
Center for the Study and Treatment of Pain
NYU Langone Medical Center

Past-President Director
Charles Inturrisi, PhD
Pharmacology
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY

Past-President Director 
Michael L. Weinberger, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
CUMC, Columbia University
Director, Pain Management Center
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Chief, Division of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care
Department of Anesthesiology
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY

Past-President Director
Donald C. Manning, MD, PhD 

Chief Medical Officer at San Francisco-based Adynxx, Inc. 

Past-President Director
Alexander Mauskop, MD, FAAN
Director, New York Headache Center
Professor of Clinical Neurology, SUNY, Downstate
New York NY