Dr. Laxmaiah Manchikanti is a physician specializing in interventional pain management, a professor, philanthropist, and author.
He is the founder of American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Society of Interventional Pain Management Surgery Centers, multiple state societies, American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians, as well as Pain Physician and Pain Medicine Case Reports medical journals.
He has been credited with advancing the evolution and development of interventional pain management as a specialty. Interventional pain management was recognized as a specialty in 2002 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In March 2005, interventional pain management was provided with mandatory representation on the Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee.
He founded the MGM scholarship fund, the Manchikanti Charitable Trust, Chandrakala and Laxmaiah Manchikanti Foundation, and sponsored the Manchikanti Library at McCracken County High School. In addition, he also …founded and operates the Manchikanti Gopamma Primary School, Manchikanti Gopamma High School, and Manchikanti Yadagiry Junior College, and multiple other activities in Bodangparthy, Nalgonda District, Telangana state. He is cofounder of the Gandhi Medical College Global Alliance and sponsored Manchikanti Auditorium at Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad, Telangana state.
Dr. Manchikanti has been serving as Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, since 2012, and Professor of Anesthesiology-Research, Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, at the LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans and Shreveport, LA, since 2017.
He is serving as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) and Society of Interventional Pain Management Surgery Centers (SIPMS). He has also served as President of ASIPP and SIPMS before being named Chairman of the Board of both ASIPP and SIPMS.
He has been in practice in Paducah, KY, since completion of a fellowship in anesthesiology and critical care medicine in 1980. He graduated from Gandhi Medical College, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He completed his internship and residency in anesthesiology at Gandhi Hospital, Youngstown Hospital Association (North Eastern Ohio School of Medicine), Allegheny General Hospital, and his fellowship in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
He is subspecialty certified in pain medicine by the American Board of Anesthesiology, Diplomate of American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians and American Board of Pain Medicine, and competency certified in regenerative medicine.
Dr. Manchikanti has published over 600 publications and serves on several editorial boards. He is also the editor of 12 books designed for interventionalists.