Alaa Abd-Elsayed, MD, MPH is the Medical Director of UW Health Pain Services. An accomplished academic, he has published about 200 peer reviewed manuscripts and edited 10 books. He serves on the editorial board of several journals and as the editor in chief for Pain Medicine Case Reports Journal. Dr. Abd-Elsayed has presented more than 200 presentations on the national and international level. His duties also extend to serving as a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and as a member of the board of directors of various societies including but not limited to ASIPP, ASRA, NANS, ASPN, and ASA.
Dawood Sayed, MD is the First President and Co-founder of the American Society of Pain and Neuroscience. He is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Kansas Hospital and serves as the Chief of Pain medicine at the University. He established and now serves as the Program Director of The Multidisciplinary Pain Medicine Fellowship at the University of Kansas. Additionally, Dr. Sayed serves as the Medical Director of Interventional Pain at the University of Kansas Comprehensive Spine Center and as the Director of the Center of Neuromodulation at the University of Kansas Hospital. As teaching faculty, he lectures for the ASIPP, NANS, ASRA, and ASA. His clinical interests include spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation, implanted intrathecal drug delivery, vertebral augmentation, cancer related pain, spinal tumor ablation, and minimally invasive spine surgery. He has lectured nationally and internationally on advanced interventional techniques for chronic pain. Dr. Sayed has published extensively in the fields of neuromodulation, interventional spine, and cancer related pain.