Nagy A. Mekhail MD, PhD

Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD, holds a joint appointment at the Cleveland Clinic Spine Center and Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center. He is also Professor of Anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve. His treatment interests include pain management, interventional spine pain management, cancer pain and neuropathic pain.

Dr. Mekhail is a member of the Pain Committee of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), Member of the American Pain Society Palliative Care Special Interest Group, Member of the Board of Directors World Institute of Pain and Examiner for the World Institute of Pain Practice Exam. He is also a member of the Oversight Committee for the Annual American Society of Anesthesiologists Meeting Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA) and part of the Task Force for "Industry Relations."

He is also a member of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, an Executive Board member of the World Institute of Pain, Chair of the Interventional Pain Practice Examination Board of the World Institute of Pain, and an ASA Adjunct Member of the Committee on Pain Medicine and Committee on Physician Resources. He is a member of the Society for Anesthesia Education Committee for the Journal of Education in Perioperative Medicine.

Dr. Mekhail is the former Chair of the Pain Management Fellowship Directors Committee on Training Curriculum of the American Association of Pain Management Program Directors. He is also the former Co-Chair of a Pain Management Fellowship Directors Round Table Discussion on incorporating interventional pain therapy in training fellowship programs.

He is a former member of the American Academy of Pain Medicine Annual program Committee, former ASA Adjunct Member of the Committee on Physician Resources, former member of the American Academy of Pain Medicine Scientific Review Committee. He also is a former member of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia Research Committee, Review Course Chair of the American Academy of Pain Medicine Program Committee, a participant in the ASA Refresher Course Lectures/Basic Science Review on Pain Management and Scientific Symposia Chair of the American Academy of Pain Medicine Program Committee.