Dr.Aronoff is a national and international thought leader on pain management.Residency at Harvard Med School, he served on 3 national advisory committees on pain, was pain consultant to the FDA. and is Adjunct Assoc Prof at Duke U. Med School.He is the 2005 recipient of the German Pain Award for his contributions to the field of Pain Medicine.
Dr. Aronoff recently completed serving as Chairman, Dept. of Pain Medicine at Presbyterian Hosp. in Charlotte, NC. He is Past President of the Amer. Academy of Pain Med., the New. Engl. Pain Assoc. and the Eastern Pain Assoc. He has served on 3 national advisory committees for pain and was Pain Consultant to the FDA Arthritis Advisory Comm.He is Adjunct Assoc. Professor, Duke Univ. Medical School
Dr. Aronoff is Medical director of North American Pain & Disability Group, Inc. From 2002-2005 he was Chairman of the Department of Pain Medicine at Presbyterian Hospital/Presbyterian Orthopedic Hospitals in Charlotte, North Carolina. From 1976 to 1994, he was the Director of the Boston Pain Center. He is the past President of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, past President of the North Carolina Pain Society, past President of the New England Pain Association and of the Eastern Pain Association (EPA). From 1982 to 1987, he was Chairman of the American Pain Society's Committee on Pain Centers and chaired a similar committee with the AAPM. He had an appointment with the Food and Drug Administration Arthritis Advisory Committee from 1988 to 1992. Dr. Aronoff served on the Advisory Board for the International Physician's Commission for the Protection of Prisoners. He served on National Advisory Committees for Pain in 1982, 1987 and 1998. He chaired the AAPM Committee looking at pain care at the end of life to establish guidelines for euthanasia and physician assisted suicide and serves on the NC End of Life Task Force. He was senior author of the Fibromyalgia Task Force report for the American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians and chaired the CRPSI (RSD) Committee. He was senior author of the position papers from both committees. He has an appointment as consultant to the Worker Compensation North Carolina I.A.B. Task Force. Dr. Aronoff received the 2003 National Leadership Award from the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Dr. Aronoff is a frequent lecturer and author on chronic pain treatment. His most recent book(2005) (www.wavecrestpublishing.com) is HANDBOOK ON PHARMACOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC PAIN.He edited the textbooks, EVALUATION AND TREATMENT OF CHRONIC PAIN, (1985/1992). He is author of EVALUATION AND TREATMENT OF CHRONIC PAIN, 3rd Edition (1999) as well as two volumes: PAIN MANAGEMENT IN CHINA, (1984) and PAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE SOVIET UNION, (1985). He is the senior author of HANDBOOK ON THE RATIONAL USE OF MEDICATION FOR PAIN, (1987) and is author of PAIN CENTERS: A REVOLUTION IN HEALTH CARE, (1988). In addition, Dr. Aronoff was Editor-in-Chief of the Clinical Journal of Pain from 1985 to 1990, is Executive Editor of Pain Practice, on the Advisory Board for MDConsult, and on the Clinical Advisory Board for the National Pain Foundation.
Dr. Aronoff is a graduate of the New Jersey College of Medicine (1972). He completed his psychiatric residency at Harvard Medical School's McLean Hospital, followed by a fellowship in psychosomatic and consultation psychiatry at Boston University Medical Center. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians, a fellow of the American College of Pain Medicine, a life fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners, is board certified in Pain Medicine, Forensic Medicine, and Psychiatry, and is certified by the American Board of Independent Medical Evaluators (ABIME).
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