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= Akhtar Purvez = Akhtar Purvez is an American author, researcher, pain policy advocate, and interventional pain physician.

Early Life and Career
He was born in the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state of India. He trained in head & neck surgery at the Government Medical College, Srinagar. He further trained in surgery, anesthesia, and interventional pain management at Brooklyn Hospital Center, Boston University and the University of Virginia, respectively.

He has been practicing pain medicine in central Virginia for more than two decades. He is board certified in Pain Medicine by American Board of Anesthesiology, the American Board of Pain Medicine and, by Atherican Board of Disability Analysts.

Honors and Academic Appointments
Akhtar Purvez was selected in 2024 for the Fellowship of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine.

Books
His first book, ‘Managing Chronic Pain in an Age of Addiction’ is available in many libraries. His second book, ‘The Brain Behind Pain’, a logical sequence to the first one, moves this tubject further to promote understanding and a dialogue. He has contributed chapters on pain management to other books, including the American College of Physicians (ACP) Manual of Critical Care, and ‘Care of Older African Adults’.

Speaking Engagements
He is actively involved in promoting health, exercise, and fitness in an attempt to improve these parameters for the general population. He speaks on the interactions between pain and addiction issues. He frequently speaks on new and emerging health research that may impact the way healthcare is currently provided. He has been on speaking panels of major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Forest, Abbvie and Purdue. He has also been speaking on radio and television.

Medico Legal Experience
He has been called on as a medical expert and witness in multiple cases over more than twenty years and has significant knowledge and experience of the intricate issues involved. Many of these employer-employee issues relate to occupational health, traumatic occupational injury  and motor vehicle accident claims and their management.7

Reference
Akhtar Purvez has extensive research experience and has been involved in investigational medical research in more than a dozen groundbreaking studies, many involving new drug research. These include new medications for chronic pain and fibromyalgia like milnocipran, other medications for osteoarthritis, and vaccines.8

Editorials and Case Reports
Akhtar Purvez sits on the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Integrative Medicine and Public Health. He has editorials and multiple case reports to his credit. These include a recent editorial on the relationship between COVID-19 and opioid epidemic. The case reports include those on medication effects and side effects, and foreign bodies in upper aerodigestive tract. A recent report on the adverse effects of monosodium glutamate (MSG) used mainly in Chinese food and resulting in recurrent episodes of atrial fibrillation, an ongoing epidemic of its own from aging population, was well received.10,11

Poetry
Akhtar Purvez composes poetry in multiple languages, including English, Kashmiri, Urdu and Farsi, that interweave stories about existentialist philosophy, human interactions and political situations.12,13,14 These have appeared on poetry websites and on social media and generated curious debate and discussion.15

Akhtar Purvez is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, Lincoln Memorial University, Tennessee.16 He is also the President and CEO of the Pain and Spine Center of Charlottesville in Virginia.17