Organizing Committee Member
Farnad Imani
Professor/Chairman
Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS)
Tehran,Iran
Biography
Dr. Farnad Imani is an associate professor with sixteen years' experience in academic postgraduate teaching in anesthesiology and pain medicine. He is chairman of department of anesthesiology and pain medicine in Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). He is founder of academic pain fellowship in Iran at 2006, and established the pain ward and interventional pain operation room in Rasoul Akram Medical Center at the first time in Iran. Dr. Imani has passed a course of interventional pain procedures in Texas Tech University, USA, in 2008, and is a Fellowship of the Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) and secretory of World Institute of Pain (WIP), Iran section. He is founder and president of the Iranian Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ISRAPM) from 2007 until now. Also, he conducts numerous seminars in the field of Interventional Pain Management, and was chairman of some Congresses of Interventional Pain Medicine. Dr Imani is pioneer of some Interventional Pain Procedures, such as percutaneous disc decompression, kyphoplasty, epiduroscopy, and radiofrequency (RF) neurolysis in Iran. He has conducted several workshops on interventional pain procedures, and invited speaker for several International congresses. Dr Imani is founder, chairman and editor in chief of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, which is the official Journal of ISRAPM. The journal welcomes all kinds of manuscripts which relevant to anesthesiology and pain Medicine field. He is the author of several papers in national and international journals, and books in the fields of anesthesiology and pain medicine (Persian language). He is going to authorize a pain book as the first comprehensive pain textbook in Persian language. Dr. Imani is the medical director and founder of the Mahya Pain Clinic. Until today, he continues to strive to be at the forefront for the treatment all spine and pain disorders. His passion for providing the most advanced medical and interventional pain technologies has made him well recognized in the field of pain management.
Research Area
Interventional Pain Management Percutaneous spinal pain procedures Cancer pain management Chronic pain management Acute postoperative Pain Management.