Leadership

 

 

The EPA Board of Directors established the RaymondW. Houde Memorial Lecture in 2006 to honor Dr. Houde’s life and his many contributions to the field of pain, as well as his deep interest in and devotion to the Eastern Pain Association. He never missed a single meeting in over 25 years.

Although he was born in New Hampshire in 1916, Ray was a true New Yorker through his training first in medical school at New York University, then an internship at Bellevue Hospital, and finally as a Medical Resident at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, where he spent the rest of his illustrious career.

Ray was a founding member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), the American Pain Society (APS) and the Eastern Pain Association (EPA). He was President of the EPA from 1978-1979 and one of the few honorary lifetime members of the EPA. Ray was a pioneer in the clinical evaluation of opioid analgesics. In early 1951 Ray, Stanley Wallenstein and Ada Rogers formed the Analgesic Studies Section at Memorial Hospital. Together they formulated the method of assaying analgesics, utilizing the double-blind technique, randomized graded doses as well as other innovations resulting in many publications and the equi-analgesic opioid conversion charts which have become almost ubiquitous in any pain management setting where opioids are used.

In the words of Ada Rogers, “Dr. Raymond Houde was a true humanitarian, a compassionate physician, a meticulous researcher, a titanic teacher and mentor, a pioneer in clinical pharmacology and most of all a faithful friend which is the medicine of life.The field of Clinical Pharmacology and the management of pain is better because of him.”
In honor of Ray’s great contributions to the field of pain management in general and the Eastern Pain Association in particular, the EPA is establishing the RaymondW. Houde Memorial Lecture. In 2006, the first recipient was Dr. James Henry, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Anesthesia and the inaugural scientific director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care at McMaster University. His lecture is entitled “Pain Can Become a Disease Itself.”

 


Board of Directors 2006-2008

President

On Board as of 2002
(Term ends 2008)

Donald C. Manning MD, PhD
Executive Director
Clinical Research and Development
Celgene Corporation
86 Morris Avenue
Summit, NJ 07901
Phone: 908 673-9529
Fax: 908 673-2778
Email: dmanning@celgene.com

President-Elect

On Board as of 2005
(Term ends 2008)

Dania Chastain PhD
Director UVA Acute Pain Service
Box 800710
Charlottesville, VA 22908
Phone: 434 982-3500
Fax: 434 243-5689
Email: dcc6w@virginia.edu

Immediate Past President

On Board as of 2001
(Term ends 2008)

William K. Schmidt PhD
1337 Marina Circle
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 650-438-3018 (cell)
Fax: 866-410-8835 (toll free)
Email: schmidtwk@aol.com (personal)
Email: schmidtwk@sbcglobal.net (business)

Treasurer

On Board as of 2001
(Term ends 2008)

Nancy Z. Olson MPS CCRC
Analgesic Development Ltd
635 Madison Ave, 3rd Fl.
New York, NY 10022-1009
Phone: 212 813-1200
Fax: 212 813-9620
Email: analgesicdevel@att.net

Parliamentarian

On Board as of 1974
(Term ends 2008)

B. Berthold Wolff PhD
343 E 30th St, Apt 4K
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212 689-8816
Fax: 212 726-0024

Directors-At-Large

Allen Lebovits PhD (Past Pres.)
On Board as of 2001
Term ends 2008
NYU Medical Center
Pain Management Ctr
317 E 34th St. 9th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212 201-1004
Fax: 212 685-5365
Email: allen.lebovits@med.nyu.edu

Stephen A. Cooper DMD PhD
On Board as of 2004
(Term ends 2008)
San Merano Apartments
26000 Portofino Circle Apt 107
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418
Phone: 973-710-6677
Fax: 973 660-7162
Email: sacooper3@aol.com

Michel Dubois MD (Past Pres.)
On Board as of 2001
(Term ends 2008)
NYU Pain Management Center
Department of Anesthesiology
317 E. 34th Street 9th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212 201-1004
Fax: 212 685-5365
Email: michel.dubois@med.nyu.edu

Roy C. Grzesiak PhD
On Board as of 2001
(Term ends 2008)
Newsletter Editor
220 Lenox Avenue
Westfield, NJ 07090
Phone: 908 789-3344
Fax: 908 789-3118
Email: rgrzesiak@optonline.net

Charles E. Inturrisi PhD (Past Pres.)
On Board as of 2001
(Term ends 2008)
LC-524 Pharmacology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
1300 York Ave
New York, NY 10021
Phone: 212 746-6235
Fax: 212 746-8835
Email: ceintur@med.cornell.edu

Robert F. Kaiko PhD (Past Pres.)
On Board as of 12-05
(Term ends 2008)
Purdue Pharma LP
One Stamford Forum
Stamford, CT 06901-3431
Phone: 203 588-7210
Fax: 203 588-6522
Email: dr.robert.kaiko@pharma.com

Ada G. Rogers RN (Past Pres.)
On Board as of 2001
(Term ends 2008)
420 East 64th Street #W2D
New York, NY 10021-0353
Phone: 212 421-0353
Email: SweetNSassyJJ@aol.com

Michael L. Weinberger MD
On Board as of 2004
(Term ends 2008)
Pain Management Center, PH5 East
622 West 168th St.
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212 305-7114
Fax: 212 305-8883
Email: mlw45@columbia.edu

Alex Mauskop, MD (Past Pres.)
On Board as of 2006
(Term ends 2008)
New York Headache Center
30 East 76th St
New York, NY 10021
Phone: 212 794-3550
Fax: 212 794-0591
Email: nyheadache@aol.com

Ronald Kanner, MD
On Board as of 2006
(Term ends 2008)
Dept of Neurology
Long Island Jewish Med Ctr
New Hyde Park, NY 11042
Phone: 718 470-7311
Fax: 718 347-3016
Email: ronchefdoc@aol.com

Joyce Lowinson, MD
On Board as of 2006
(Term ends 2008)
111 East 56th St
New York, NY 10022
Phone: 212 753-8600
Fax: 212 754-5683
Email: lowinsj@mail.rockefeller.edu

Paul Desjardins, DMD, PhD
On Board as of 2006
(Term ends 2008)
Wyeth Consumer Healthcare
5 Giralda Farms
Madison, NJ 07940
Phone: 973 660-6693
Fax: 973 660-7162
Email: desjarp2@wyeth.com


Nominations Committee
Michel Y. Dubois, MD
Charles R. Inturrisi, PhD
Mary Pontrello, RN
Gary Walco, PhD

 

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