Today and Tomorrow in Pain Medicine: Innovations and Practical Applications
Today and Tomorrow in Pain Medicine: Innovations and Practical Applications
Planning Committee Co-Chairs
Beth Darnall, PhD
Beth Darnall, PhD.
Dr. Darnall is Director of the Stanford Pain Relief Innovations Lab. She leads NIH and PCORI-funded clinical trials that broadly investigate behavioral medicine for acute and chronic pain. She serves as faculty mentor. Her primary interests are developing and investigating novel pain treatments that are scalable, effective, and low burden. Darnall graduated from Texas Woman’s University with a B.A. in mass communications. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in rehabilitation medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Darnall is the current Co-Chair of the 2022 Planning Committee.
Marie N. Hanna, MD
Marie N. Hanna, MD.
Dr. Hanna is an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Hanna specializes in obstetric anesthesia, as well as regional and acute pain management. She serves as the director of the Acute Pain Service and the chief of the Division of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management. She earned her medical degree at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. She completed anesthesiology residencies at both the Loyola University School of Medicine and Cairo’s Coptic Hospital. She also completed an internal medicine internship at Metro West Medical Center in Framingham, Massachusetts, and served as a research assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Hanna is the current Co-Chair of the 2022 Planning Committee.
Salman Hirani, MD
Salman Hirani, MD
Dr. Williams is an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an assistant professor of business at the Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins University. From 2009-2011, Dr. Williams served as the medical director at the Blaustein Pain Treatment Center at Johns Hopkins. His research focuses on translational research on neuromodulation, with emphasis on the mechanisms and efficacy of spinal cord stimulation in neuropathic pain, peripheral neuropathies, and peripheral vascular disease. Dr. Williams is the current President Elect of AAPM.