Javier Ares MD, PhD, FIPP

Dr. Javier De Andres Ares has been a board-certified Anesthesiologist since 1997. He graduated from Universidad Complutense-Madrid in June 1990, completed his anesthesiology residency at Complejo Hospitalario de Toledo in 1996, and is a Fellow in Interventional Pain Practice from the World Institute of Pain 2008. He obtained the Hassenbusch Award in 2008 from the World Institute of Pain. He received his PhD after six years of study on Facetogenic Low Back Pain from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Ares is currently the Head of the Pain Unit at Hospital Universitario La Paz-Madrid, and is co-director at “Clínica del Dolor Hospital Santa Elena-Madrid”. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Universidad Miguel de Cervantes and collaborates with Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. He is the Head of the Spanish Pain Radiofrequency Interest Group, from the Spanish Pain Society (IASP). He is an active member of several societies, including the World Institute of Pain, the Spine Intervention Society, and the Spanish Pain Society.

Ares has more than 20 years of experience as a pain clinic director in public and private practice and speaks nationally and internationally on topics of pain medicine and interventional pain management. He has a special interest in Spinal and Facial Pain. Dr. De Andrés Ares is the current Chair of the WIP Iberian Section (Portugal & Spain) and a member of the EXECUTIVE BOARD of the WORLD INSTITUTE OF PAIN.