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Boston Pain Society’s core mission is to promote collaboration, collegiality within the pain community, to support its members, and to foster education, research, and improve pain care throughout the world.
Executive Board
Jan 1, 2026-Dec 31, 2027
Danielle Sarno, MD
President
Dr. Danielle Sarno is the Director of Interventional Pain Management in the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Instructor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sarno is the founding Co-Director of the Harvard Interventional Pain Simulation Center, where she is developing and studying an interventional spine simulation-based education curriculum for physicians specializing in pain management. She has authored numerous publications related to pain care and has presented her research nationally and internationally. She received a Pillars of Excellence Award for Integrating Diversity, Equity & Inclusion from Mass General Brigham in 2022, a “20 Under 40” award from the North American Spine Society in 2020, and is recognized by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation as a Gold Humanism Honor Society member since 2011. Dr. Sarno is co-directing and studying a virtual functional and integrative restoration (FINER) program (www.finerprogram.org) which aligns with her mission to increase access to interdisciplinary pain care and resources and improve quality of life for people with chronic pain.
Milan Stojanovic, MD
President – Elect
Dr. Stojanovic was the principal founder of the interventional pain program at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School where he served as its director for 12 years. He also served as Chief, Pain Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, where he is currently teaching fellows, and is the current Director of the Interventional Pain Clinic at Edith Nourse Rodgers Memorial VA Hospital.Dr. Stojanovic is the inaugural Editor-In-Chief, Interventional Pain Medicine journal, the official journal of the Spine Intervention Society. He is the current Chair, Education Committee for the World Institute of Pain and former Director at Large for the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. He has dedicated his career to improving technical expertise and excellence in interventional procedures, teaching, and clinical research. Dr. Stojanovic had the unique experience of training and mentoring many respected leaders in the field for the last 27 years.
Antje Barreveld, MD
Secratary
Antje Barreveld, MD is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is Chief of Pain Medicine, co-Founder and Director of Education and Outreach for the Substance Use Services (SUS), and Anesthesiologist with Commonwealth Anesthesia Associates at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, MA. Dr. Barreveld is also a Clinical Researcher at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. She serves as co-director of the Harvard Medical School Pain and Substance Use Curriculum Committee and co-leads their pain medicine education courses. She graduated from the University of California San Francisco Medical School and completed her Residency in Anesthesiology and Fellowship in Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her clinical, leadership, and research interests are in pain management education, chronic pelvic pain in men and women, acute and chronic postoperative pain, and safe practices in co-managing pain and addiction. She is a leader in pain medicine stewardship efforts for the Mass General Brigham health system. She served as Co-Principal Investigator of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center of Excellence in Pain Education (CoEPE), designated by the National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium. Dr. Barreveld is the 41st and first woman President of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM). She is an appointed expert to the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Substance Use Disorder Working group. Dr. Barreveld was selected as a 2020 Mayday Pain & Society Fellow as one of 12 national Fellows to build the next generation of pain experts to provide evidence-based and solutions-focused information about pain care and treatment as well as promising research emerging in the field. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in high-ranking scientific journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, and Anesthesia & Analgesia. Her teaching, pain expertise, and community-based advocacy efforts have been featured in several news outlets including PBS NewsHour, the New York Times, National Public Radio, StatNews, and the Boston Globe.
Dr. Jason Yong
Treasurer
Dr. Yong serves as the Chief of Pain Medicine and the Medical Director of the Pain Management Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Yong attended college at the University of Texas in Austin and completed the joint MD/MBA program from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management. Dr. Yong then moved to Boston where he graduated from Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s anesthesiology residency program and served as a Chief Resident. He then completed the Pain Medicine fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital with additional rotations at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the VA hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital.
As a resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he received recognition as the Distinguished Resident of the Year and was selected as a Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) Practice Management Scholar. Dr. Yong then joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine as an Assistant Professor. While at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Yong was awarded Anesthesiology’s 2013 Outstanding Teacher of the Year and 2013 Intraoperative Teaching and Clinical Mentorship awards. Since joining the faculty in 2013, Dr. Yong was selected as Associate Program Director for the Pain Management Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and was recognized with the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2021 Pain Attending of the Year awards. Additionally, he was awarded the 2018 Outstanding Mentoring Award by the Department of Anesthesiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
While at Harvard and Johns Hopkins, Dr. Yong has published on opioid management, regenerative medicine, cancer pain, neuromodulation, and practice efficiency. His clinical interests include cancer pain, minimally invasive surgical techniques, and neuromodulation therapy. Dr. Yong also has interest in product development and has done collaborative work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Business School, and Harvard’s Graduate School of Engineering.
Dr. Yong is fluent in Spanish and also has a passion for international health. He has spent time on medical mission trips to the Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Ecuador, Brazil, and Guatemala.
Musa Moris Aner, MD
Treasurer-Elect
Jatinder Gill, MD
Past President
Dr. Gill is Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. He did his residency in Anesthesiology followed by fellowship in Pain Medicine at MGH and was Attending at MGH for several years. He then moved to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston and is currently practicing there. He is actively involved in clinical work, teaching, and clinical research. His clinical interests include vertebral augmentation, spinal cord stimulation, and spinal stenosis.
Dr. Gill standardized the contralateral oblique view for interlaminar epidural access. His research includes fluoroscopic imaging, clinical and technical aspects of spinal cord stimulation, and various other aspects of pain medicine. He is currently working on developing a standardized nomenclature for spine procedural reporting. His other interests include device development, high-altitude medicine and climbing. Dr. Gill has trained and mentored numerous residents and fellows and maintains close connections with many.
Board of Directors
Jan 1, 2026-Dec 31, 2027
Alexandra Adler, MD
Director of Interventional Pain
Dr. Alexandra Adler is a board-certified pain management specialist and anesthesiologist. Dr. Adler graduated from Yale University in 2007 Magna Cum Laude with distinction with Phi Beta Kappa honors. She was awarded a Gates Cambridge Fellowship and studied at the University of Cambridge from 2007-2008, graduating with a Master of Philosophy in Biological Sciences. She then returned to Yale School of Medicine to complete her medical degree. She completed her residency training in anesthesiology and her fellowship training in chronic pain at Massachusetts General. Dr. Adler splits her time between Lowell General Hospital, where she works as an anesthesiologist and Lowell Spine and Pain Associates. Her interests include pelvic pain, pain reprocessing therapy, centralized pain, peripheral nerve pain, and chronic back pain.
Hasan Zaidi, MD
Director of Spine Surgery
Dr. Zaidi is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Co- Director of the Adult Deformity/Scoliosis Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (M.D.) and completed neurosurgical training at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ. Fascinated by the complexity of spinal disorders and the ability of spine surgery to restore function and improve the quality of a patient’s life, he pursued a specialized fellowship in complex spine surgery, adult spinal deformity surgery, as well as endoscopic surgery. Dr. Zaidi’s clinical practice is focused on the treatment of global spinal imbalance among patients with degenerative spine disease, tumors and scoliosis; by restoring the natural curvature of the spine, surgery can reduce pain and improve function. His research focuses on developing novel surgical tools to improve the safety and efficacy of surgery, as well as analyzing surgical outcomes in order to improve surgical outcomes.
Egilius Spierings, MD, PhD
Director of Neurology
Dr. Spierings is a neurologist with specialty training in headache management and a Ph.D. in pharmacology. He has over 40 years of experience treating migraine patients. He has been involved in migraine-related experimental and clinical research for 45 years. He has directed headache programs at Harvard- and Tufts-affiliated hospitals and is currently the medical director of the Greater Boston Headache Center at Boston Advanced Medicine in Waltham, Massachusetts. He is a former associate clinical professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and a retired clinical professor of neurology & craniofacial pain at Tufts University Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine.
Sameer O. Kapasi, MD
Director of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Sameer O. Kapasi M.A., M.D. is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation specialist with a sub specialty in conservative and interventional rehabilitation for spinal degeneration.
Dr. Kapasi regularly lectures in national meetings and has been a peer reviewer for the PM&R journal. Dr. Kapasi is a past faculty member for the North American Spine Society advanced spinal injection workshops and is actively involved in training residents. He is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and was elected a fellow of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation where he is a board examiner.
Ronald Kulich, PhD
Director of Behavioral Health
Dr. Kulich is a Full Professor and clinical psychologist at the Dept of Diagnostic Sciences at Tufts School of Dental Medicine, and holds an additional appointment at Harvard-MGH, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine. He has published multiple peer reviewed papers and two books on pain assessment and management, with recent work as the director of the Interprofessional Pain and Headache Rounds, an international educational platform reaching clinicians, scientists, and pubic policy stakeholders. His recent research and grant funding focuses on controlled substance risk mitigation, and improving pain care access. Other academic responsibilities have included an appointment on the Massachusetts Healthcare Services Board and co-chair of the Massachusetts Governor’s Committee for the Curriculum on Substance Abuse assessment for dentistry. Fellowship training responsibilities include supervision of Anesthesia/Pain Medicine and Orofacial Pain Medicine Fellows (MGH), as well as contributing to the curriculum for Tufts School of Dental Medicine.
Jennifer Kurz, MD
Director of Integrative Medicine
Arti Ori, MD
Director of Education
Andrew Lederman, MD
Director of Fundraising
Andrew Lederman, MD, FABPMR is a board-certified physiatrist and pain medicine physician with a clinical focus on spine and interventional musculoskeletal care. He serves as Chief of Physiatry at New England Baptist Hospital, where he works closely with surgeons, therapists, psychologists, and nurses to help patients return to meaningful function and quality of life.
Dr. Lederman is particularly interested in care models that bring disciplines together rather than working in silos, with an emphasis on thoughtful use of image-guided procedures, rehabilitation, and patient education. He is actively involved in teaching, quality improvement, and collaborative research aimed at improving how pain care is delivered in real-world settings.
He is a member of the Board of Directors at the Boston Pain Society and appreciates the Society’s emphasis on community, mentorship, and open exchange across disciplines
Parker Woolley, MD
Director of Trainee Engagement – 1-year term from July to June from an incoming pain fellow class
Ehren Nelson, MD
Ex officio as a Founding Member
Dr. Nelson is a staff in anesthesiologist in Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital’s Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine whose clinical interest is in spinal disorders. Dr. Nelson attended Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in anesthesiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a fellowship in Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is double board certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Attorney Sapna Gupta
General Counsel
Member at Large