Meet the Faculty
2022 AAPM Conference Planning Committee
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. Hirani is a physician entrepreneur and health disparities researcher, specializing in cancer pain medicine and interventional spine procedures. He specializes in the minimally invasive treatment of the spine and various musculoskeletal disorders causing chronic pain. Dr. Hirani’s background includes health services research, medical technologies and innovation, diversity, equity, and inclusion, healthcare leadership, public health, and academic advising. Dr. Hirani completed his preliminary training in Internal Medicine at Harvard Medical School-Mt Auburn Hospital, followed by residency in Rehabilitation Medicine at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Hirani then went on to complete his training in Pain Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University and earned his MD with Distinction in Research from UT Southwestern Medical School. Dr. Hirani is the current Co-Chair of the 2022 Planning Committee.