OUR BOARD MEMBERS

Meet the Team behind World Pain Academy

DR. RAFAEL BLANCO

(CCST, FRCA, DEAA, IHLM)

Experience and Postgraduate degrees:

  • MB, BS (Medical Bachelor, Bachelor of Surgery, Santiago de Compostela, Spain) 1991
  • F.R.C.A. (Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, UK) 1999
  • D.E.A.A. (Diploma of the European Academy of Anaesthesiology) 2000
  • C.C.S.T. (Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training) 2002
  • IHLM Certificate in Healthcare Leadership and Management 2015.

Areas of Interest:

  • Management: Healthcare leadership and clinical governance
  • Clinical Subspecialty: Pain Medicine, Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery, Bariatric Surgery, General Surgery, Breast Surgery, Oncology Surgery, Orthopaedics, Vascular, Maxillo facial and ENT plus other subspecialties
  • Audit and Research: Education and training at national and international level.
  1. Founder and Honorary President of the London Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine.
  2. NICE (National institute of Clinical Excellence) advisor for Great Britain & Ireland in Pain Medicine
  3. Author of 4 books, 15 book chapters, 5 first prizes, 55 magazine papers and letters, countless international conferences, courses and workshops in different fields.
  4. Published Pain intervention techniques recognized worldwide: Quadratus lumborum lateral block, Quadratus lumborum posterior block, PECS I block, PECS II block, Serratus plane block, transcutaneous pudendal nerve block.
  5. Designer of the first in the world online logbook in Anaesthesia
  6. Introduced for the world of the use of learning curves as part of accreditation and privileges for anaesthetists and trainees.
  7. Designer of the first in the world echogenic epidural needle: Rafa Tuohy, Vygon
  8. Only European advisor in the design of the first portable ultrasound Sonosite M-Turbo in partnership with USA advisors.

Dr. Abdallah El-Sayed Allam

 

Experience:

  • Lecturer at Department of Physical Medicine, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospitals. Tanta University. Tanta. Egypt. 
  • Consultant at Armed Forces Rehabilitation Hospital. Al-Agouza. Cairo. EGYPT.
  • Morphological Madrid Research Centre (MoMaRC). Madrid. Spain.
  • Consultant Rheumatology at the Egyptian Health Insurance Clinics. Tanta Branch. 
  • Co-founder of and Instructor at the Egyptian Society of Musculoskeletal and Neuromuscular Sonography (ESMNS) And Arab League of Musculoskeletal Neuromuscular and Spine Ultrasound (ALMNSU) and participated in many workshops as a tutor.
  • Faculty at Rheuma Pain Academy, Gulf Pain School, Middle East Pain Academy.
  • Supervisor of Interventional Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship. Arab Board of Health Specializations. Ministry of Health. Baghdad. Iraq.

OUR SUBJECT EXPERTS

Dr. AMMAR SALTI

MD. EDRA

  • Consultant Anesthesia & Pain Management 
  • Cleveland Clinic – Abu Dhabi – UAE 
  • Adjunct clinical professor at Lerner Medical College – Ohio – USA

Dr. VIRENDRA RASTOGI

INDIA

Dr. PANKAJ N. SURANGE

M.D. ANAESTHESIOLOGY

  • FIPP : Interventional Pain World Institute Of Pain – Budapest (Hungary)
  • FIAPM : Interventional Pain And Spine
    Indian Society For Study Of Pain – India
  • Fellowship Spine Endoscopy : Spine Endoscopy
    Nanoori Hospital – Korea
  • Diploma in Pain Medicine
    College of Anesthesiologists, Ireland
  • Advanced Healthcare Management: Indian
    School of Business

Dr. ANJU GUPTA

MBBS, MD, DNB, IDRA, MNAMS, PGCCHM, EDRA

  • ACLS, ATLS, PPLS (ASPA), SAFE kids (WFSA) instructor
  • Associate Editor Journal of Medical Case Reports, Frontiers in Paediatrics
  • Assistant Editor Journal of Anaesthesiology and Clinical Pharmacology
  • Editor ‘Barash Clinical Anesthesiology’ and ‘Dorsch and Dorsch’ (SAE)
  • Associate Professor (Anaesthesiology, Pain and Critical Care)
  • All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Dr. DHRUV BIBRA

DA, DNB, EDPM (EFIC), FIPP (USA)

  • Senior Consultant pain Physician, DELHI PAIN MANAGEMENT CENTER, NEW DELHI
  • 2022-European Diploma in Pain Medicine, EFIC, Belgium

Dr. JAVED KHAN

IMBBS,DA,FIPM

  • Director Anaesthesiology and Pain management Vishesh Jupiter Hospital, Indore
  • Associate Secretary AORA India
    President ISSP, Madhya Pradesh, India
  • Ex Secretary ISA, Indore, India

Dr. MD ANAMUL HAQUE MILTON

MBBS, DA (Anaesthesiology), FIPM, DPM, FAPM

  • Fellow EULAR (Rheumatology & USG)
  • Training in Spine Endoscopy 
  • Jr. Consultant, General Hospital Faridpur.
  • Director & Chief Consultant, Pain Medicine, Spring Hill Hospital Ltd, Faridpur.
  • Visiting Consultant, Pain Medicine, Dhaka
  • Pain Management Centre, Dhaka.

Areas of Interest:

  • Advance Spinal procedure
  • USG guided Procedure

Dr. SMRUTI REKHA

MBBS, MD (Anesthesiology) FIPM (GOLD)

Director and Consultant – RELIEF spine and pain clinic , Unit of Daradia Pain clinic, Sambalpur

  • FIPP (WIP-USA)
  • CIPS (WIP-USA)
  • EDPM 1(BRUSSELS)
  • Fellow in Rheumatology (ACR-EULAR)

Areas of interest:

  • MSK USG Guided intervention
  • Neuromodulation 

Dr. RAKESH GARG

MD, DNB, FICCM, FICA, PGCCHM (INDIA)

  • MNAMS, CCEPC, FIMSA, 
  • Fellowship in Palliative Medicine, 
  • Fellowship in Clinical Research Methodology & Evidence-Based Medicine