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Nok Keomahathai, MD, GSIPP President
Dear GSIPP Members
I am honored and excited to be elected as the incoming President of the Georgia Society of Pain Physicians (GSIPP) for the 2023-2025 term. I would like to continue the mission and the purpose that my predecessors have established over the past 20 years of GSIPP. I would like to acknowledge these momentous past presidents Drs. Amit Patel, Susheel Dua, Vincent Galan, Shevin Pollydore, and many more. Moreover, our organization would not be as strong nationally without the rock that holds our state society together, our Executive Director, Dr. David Gale. I am proud to be a part of this organization, and I am proud that we never “skipped a beat” with our annual meetings during the Covid pandemic. It is important that GSIPP continues to grow and to succeed with members and supporters who are active and engaged.
I have been a member of GSIPP since its early conception by Drs. Carlos Giron, Marvin Tark, and Charlie Brownlow. As a society, we have seen countless changes within our specialty, from the treatment of opiate use with no ceiling effects, pain scores being used as the 5th Vital Sign, and the restrictive use of opiate therapy in the 2016 CDC opiate guidelines, as well as the updates in 2022. The indirect impact of these regulations has led to the exponential growth in medical technology and in our ability to control patients’ pain. I have witnessed this evolution of our specialty in the advancing technologies presented at national meetings, such as the North American Neuromodulation Society. The growth in our state society meetings is mirroring the national meeting with respect to this, and in our relationship with industry vendors. The explosion of technology such as Vertiflex, SI Fusion, HF-10, Burst Programming, DTM, FAST, Closed Loop, the reemergence of MILD, VIADISC, DRG, various PNS options, Facet Fusion Systems, and ITTP Microdosing, etc., offers us many options in the treatment of pain. These technological advances distinguish mere pain managers from advanced interventional pain specialists. I am optimistic about the inevitable future advances in our specialty.
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