Nagy Mekhail, M.D., Ph.D.

Department Chair

Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD, is Chairman of the Department of Pain Management at Cleveland Clinic, and he 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.

He became a Diplomate of American Board of Anesthesiology and Diplomate of American Board of Anesthesiology, with added qualifications in Pain Management in 1993 and was recertified in 2004. He became a Fellow of the Interventional Pain Practice in 2001.

• Chair of the Interventional Pain Practice Examination Board
• American Society of Anesthesiologists, Pain Committee
• Member of World Institute of Pain  Executive Board
• American Academy of Pain Medicine, Scientific Review Committee Member

• Executive Education Program, Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management, 1994-1995
• Health Care Leadership Institute, George Town University, Washington, 2005

Pain Medicine

Anesthesiology

• Pioneered minimally invasive techniques to treat painful degenerative disc disease
• Innovated use of spinal cord stimulation for peripheral vascular disease

• Ohio Society of Anesthesiologists, Residents Research Contest, September 1988
• The Cleveland Clinic Anesthesia Residents Research Contest, June 1989
• Ohio Society of Anesthesiologists, Residents Research Contest, September 1989
• The Cleveland Clinic Anesthesia Residents, Research Contest, June 1990
• The Cleveland Clinic Anesthesia Residents, Research Contest, June 1991
• Ohio Society of Anesthesiologists, Residents Research Contest, September 1991
• The Cleveland Clinic William E Lower Fellowship Thesis Prize, June 1992
• Foundation of Anesthesia Educational Research (FAER) Grant Award, 1992

• American Medical Association
• American Society of Anesthesiologists
• American Pain Society
• American Academy of Pain Medicine
• World Institute of Pain Executive Board