Talk:Joshua Prager (doctor)

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wants to be renamed
...wants to be renamed to Joshua P. Prager, which is how he's cited in many places including https://www.neuromodulation.org/Portals/0/Gallery/Publications/Newsletters/nansnews08_spring.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vonfraginoff (talk • contribs) 03:49, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

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He served on the Board of Directors of the International Neuromodulation Society (INS). He was founder of the Neuromodulation Therapy Access Coalition (NTAC), a coalition of national and international physician organizations and other stakeholders dedicated to insuring patient access to neuromodulation. He serves as Liaison Board Member between NANS and the INS.
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After undergraduate and graduate studies in Stony Brook University and Harvard University, where he served as the President of the Harvard Graduate Student Council, Prager graduated from Stanford University with M.D. as well as M.S. in Management/Health Services Research in 1981. He completed training in internal medicine at UCLA before completing training in anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) at Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine. He has served on the full-time faculty at MGH at Harvard Medical School and at UCLA School of Medicine where he served as Director of the UCLA Pain Medicine Center. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
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In 2011,Prager completed, two terms, six years of service on the Medical Evidence Evaluation Advisory Committee (MEEAC), a group appointed by the Governor of California to develop treatment guidelines for medical care of the injured worker. He is a Medical Expert for the Medical Board of California, the California Attorney General and the District Attorney of the County of Los Angeles. He has advised Medicare on the local level as reimbursement expert and as a member of the Carrier Advisory Committee (CAC) and currently holds an appointment on the national level on the CAC..
 * Current and recent public service

Public service has been an important aspect of Prager's career. He helped establish or reorganize several inner-city health centers, provided volunteer internal medicine care at Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, and provided volunteer anesthesia for children in the developing world who need corrective surgeries for congenital anomalies. He has held numerous positions with other medical organizations. Most recently, he organized the first meeting of a coalition of pain organizations and all three manufacturers of spinal cord stimulator systems to collaborate on issues of patient access and reimbursement for neuromodulatory procedures.


 * Awards and distinctions
 * Bounty of Hope Award, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Society of America (RSDSA) for Patient Care and contributions to the RSD community. (2007)
 * California Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA), for contributions to the education of anesthesiologists. (2007)
 * Decade of Pain Lecture, American Academy of Pain Medicine. (2007)
 * Texas Pain Society, Samuel Hassenbusch Lecture. (2009)
 * Lifetime Achievement Award, Presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the North American Neuromodulation Society (2012)
 * Award for Dedication and Contributions to the field of Neurmodulation at the Scientific Meeting of the International Neuromodulation Society, Berlin, Germany (2013)
 * UCLA Department of Anesthesiology, Outstanding teaching and contributions to the Pain Fellowship. (2002 and 2003)

-- Jytdog (talk) 23:34, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

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- Jytdog (talk) 23:33, 14 May 2016 (UTC)