Web Editorial Team

INS website content is created and reviewed by medical experts, listed below:

Timothy Deer, MD, FIPP
President Elect, International Neuromodulation Society, 2011-2015
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Charleston, WV, USA

Jiande Chen, PhD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA

Ian Cook, MD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Associate Director of the Laboratory of Brain, Behavior, and Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Research Scientist at the UCLA Brain Research Institute and Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior; and Director of the UCLA Depression Research and Clinic Program; Los Angeles, CA, USA

Jaimie Henderson, MD
Director-at-Large, International Neuromodulation Society, 2011-2014
Director, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery; Associate Professor, Neurosurgery; Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA

Michael Leong, MD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA

Robert Levy, MD, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface
Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery Co-Director, Shands-Jacksonville Neuroscience Institute, University of Florida
Jacksonville, FL, USA

Francis Luscombe, MB, BS, FRCA, FFPMRCA
Past president, International Neuromodulation Society United Kingdom and Ireland 
Consultant in Pain Management, Derriford Hospital 
Plymouth, UK

Andre Machado, MD, PhD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Director, Center for Neurological Restoration, Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; Associate Staff in the Department of Neurosurgery with Joint Appointments in the Department of Neuroscience and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute; Program Director for Education in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Cleveland, OH USA

Christophe Perruchoud, MD
President, INS chapter; Swiss Neuromodulation Society
Chief Medical Officer, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management – Center for Neuromodulation, Hospital of Morges, Morges, Switzerland

Konstantina Petropoulou, MD, PhD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Head of 2nd PRM Department
National Rehabilitation Center
Athens, Greece

Lawrence Poree, MD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Pain Clinic of Monterey Bay, Aptos, CA, USA

Marc Russo, MD
Executive Officer, International Neuromodulation Society, 2011-2014
Hunter Pain Clinic, Broadmeadow, NSW Australia

Konstantin Slavin, MD
Director-at-Large, International Neuromodulation Society, 2011-2014
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Ill., USA

Chengyuan Wu, MD, MSBmE
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Additional review by:

Kenneth Alo', MD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Pain Management, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA

Hong Yu, MD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

Consultant at large:

Elliot Krames, MD
Past President, International Neuromodulation Society
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface
Medical Director, Pacific Pain Treatment Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

Expert authors:

Marina Abramova, MD
Department of Neurosurgery, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

Kenneth Alo, MD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Pain Management, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA

Jiande Chen, PhD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA

Ian Cook, MD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Associate Director of the Laboratory of Brain, Behavior, and Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Research Scientist at the UCLA Brain Research Institute and Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior; and Director of the UCLA Depression Research and Clinic Program; Los Angeles, CA, USA

ML DeJongste, MD, PhD
Executive Officer, International Neuromodulation Society, 1994-2003
Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

John Donoghue, PhD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Professor of Neuroscience and Engineering, Brown University; Director, Brown University Institute for Brain Science, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; Research Scientist, Providence, RI Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center

Sohier Elneil, B.Sc (Hons), MBChB, PhD (Cantab.), MRCOG
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Consultant in Urogynaecology and Uro-neurology National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, England

Magdy Hassouna, MD, PhD, FRCSC
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Professor of Surgery (Urology), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Nicholas J. Kenefick, BChir, MB, MA, MD, FRCS
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Torbay Hospital, U.K.
and
Wesley Lai, MB, ChB, MRCS (co-author)
Specialist Surgical Registrar, National Health Service School of General Surgery
South West Deanery, U.K.

Andre Machado, MD, PhD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Director, Center for Neurological Restoration, Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; Associate Staff in the Department of Neurosurgery with Joint Appointments in the Department of Neuroscience and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute; Program Director for Education in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Cleveland, OH USA

Christophe Perruchoud, MD
President, INS chapter; Swiss Neuromodulation Society
Chief Medical Officer, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management – Center for Neuromodulation, Hospital of Morges, Morges, Switzerland

Erich Richter, MD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Department of Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

Marc Russo, MBBS, DA(UK)FANZCA, FFPMFANZCA
Executive Officer, International Neuromodulation Society, 2011-2014
Hunter Pain Clinic, Broadmeadow, NSW Australia

Konstantin Slavin, MD
Director-at-Large, International Neuromodulation Society, 2011-2014
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Ill., USA

Simon Thomson, MBBS FRCA FIPP FFPMRCA
President, International Neuromodulation Society, 2009-2015
Lead Consultant, Pain Management Centre, Basildon & Thurrock University Hospital, U.K.

Chengyuan Wu, MD, MSBmE
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Hong Yu, MD
Member, International Neuromodulation Society
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

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