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LIFE HISTORY OF STEVEN D. WALDMAN: Steven D. Waldman is known to be good in the field of pain management. He was the person who paid as a teacher, innovator and mentor for the people of that generation. He also wrote several books on the pain management which were taught in the schools as a textbook. Waldman is also known as the advocate who never get tired of this profession. In the United States, Steven is the first physician to get involved in the full time practice of management of pain. It was his believe that there are specific programs for training, literature and its own way. •	BACKGROUND ABOUT THE LIFE OF STEVEN D. WALDMAN: The place where Waldman lives is in the Kansas City Suburb, Leawood. He married a woman who has completed her M.B.A and by occupation she is a Therapist. Waldman has 4 children who also live with them. Waldman likes to read several books. His main activities are in visual arts and theatre. The main member of Yachad Food Pantry is known to be Waldman. •	EARLY BACKGROUND OF EDUCATION AND CAREER: Waldman completed his degree in geosciences from the university of Missouri-Kansas city which you can say UMKC. After getting his degree in this profession, Waldman was selected among 100 students in the new school of medicine. This happened in the year 1973. 1977 was his graduation year from the UMKC School of medicine. After this he started residency in Anesthesiology in Minnesota at the clinic of Mayo. There were many leadership positions which were completed by Waldman at Mayo. As the position of fellow association he was selected in the year 1979. There are many more positions for which Waldman was selected. He was the person who gave his contribution as Editor in chief. When Waldman was working at the Mayo clinic, he got a chance to spend his time and career with scientist Tony Yaksh who was PhD which performed work on the receptor. Due to such scientist this created interest of Waldman in the pain management. He also worked with other scientist and injected morphine into space of subarachnoid to care for pain. After such discoveries Waldman came back to his home to start practices of the pain management in his own country. Waldman is the person who discovers the need for the specialty in the management of pain. He discovers the way patient feels the pain. Waldman also wrote many books and topic on this issue and subject. He gave different lectures around the country. Few journals in which his work was used were The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Pain Digest, The American Journal of Pain Management, Headache Quarterly, Archives of Oncology, and as Editor-In Chief of Analgesiafile, Waldman made realized the pain management. For around 30 years, he was a lecturer at the UMKC School of medicine as in the department of clinical faculty. Waldman was also selected as the practitioner who was elected for whole time in the Kansas City area which was in the early 1980s. Waldman made around 20 area hospitals and clinics on the pain management. The Headache & Pain Center in Leawood, Kansas was made by Waldman. He in his clinic made different positions for the physicians in the pain management. Other centers were neurology, orthopedic surgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and neurosurgery, which were gathered by all over the country. He also learnt about the impatient technology which after then he opened advanced level hospitals for such cases to deal. In 2008, he started his career in writing about several topics and to teach people regarding this profession. His interest in hospitals was over till this time. •	DETAILS ABOUT THE PROFESSION OF WALDMAN AND ITS SPECIALTY: It Was Waldman who got to know the requirement of the pain management and the three main barriers related to it. In the private practice it include 3 ways for it to increase. These ways are: o	Deficiency of training program in this field o	There is short of cogent contemporary pain management o	There is no such information regarding pain management specialist. To overcome these problems, Waldman was the person who started to write about such issue and about every aspect. Waldman was the person to start and founded the very first private practice which was related to pain management. Waldman is also the founder of the society for pain practice management which can also be termed as SPPM which provides clinicians with education and other aspects. In 1992, he completed masters in the Business Administration in health care. Waldman also received degree of doctor from the University of Kansas School of law which was received in the year 1998. he was allowed to practice by the Kansas supreme court. People who were old in this profession thought that Waldman should get more focus on this pharmacological management of pain. Waldman thought that the specialty of management of pain includes new discovery of the drug delivery systems, tomographic guidance which is made on computer, use of neural blockage in which the clinical utility is unqualified and are used in treating pain. This is the common believe of Waldman about defining the specialty in the pain management. It was Waldman who used the terminology INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT which was used to differentiate those people who think different from this. He also in this way defined the movement. It was Waldman who arranged several meetings between Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation and its President Alon Winnie, M.D. this meeting took place in Nice which is in France and is subjected as INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT and in this way it came into being. This meeting resulted in the combination of Waldman and Alon Winnie who published the interventional pain management. Due to efforts of Waldman, this book interventional pain management got spread all over and received good coverage and was helpful in changing views of many specialists. •	GETTING MORE KNOWLEDGE RELATED TO PAIN MANAEGEMT AND ITS COURSE: In united state, the requirement for the demand of pain management increased. Waldman by his writing skills gave information regarding Interventional pain management. He wrote more than 200 books on it which were helpful in emphasizing about the practical and guided step by step to the pain management specialist. It helped to get better result regarding pain management. Waldman few contributions were changed into different languages so that everyone can understand the pain management. In 1996, his book Atlas of interventional pain management was formed. This book great publicity and was very much helpful for the people in the history of the specialty and was translated into 13 different languages. Another best book of Waldman was Atlas of Pain Management Injection Techniques. This edition was also changed into different languages for ease of people. Its requirement grew more as the specialty increased. Before the specialist were asked to treat pain. But nowadays, the practioners are said to determine the reason for this pain which will further be treated but before cause should be known. Due to this reason, Waldman wrote several books on the causes of pain. He was the first person to focus on diagnosis instead of knowing the treatment. His work Atlas of Common Pain and Atlas of Uncommon Pain emphasized upon the causes and are having 4 editions. There is one more book of Waldman which is Physical Diagnosis of Pain which helped in telling about the physical diagnostic features of the pain management. He was helped by the Rob Campbell who was a radiologist and helped Waldman to write on the radioactive diagnostic features. Waldman made great contribution in this respect. In 2010, he wrote several other books as well. •	ACHIEVEMENT OF STEVEN D. WALDMAN IN THE FORM OF AWARDS AND APPRECIATION: Waldman received many awards during his career in the pain management. Due to his academic abilities and qualities, when he was an undergraduate, he was nominated as a junior into Phi Kappa Phi honor society and then he received the award of Geosciences which was remarkable graduate award. Waldman also got UMKC School of Medicine Green Unit Outstanding Medical Student Award which he got as a good result in the clinical rotations. When he was at his medical age, he was also nominated for the Alpha Omega Medical Honor Society. He also got other awards like Meritorious Service Award which he received from the Mayo clinic fellow association. This award he received due to contribution as a volunteer role. In 2005, several other awards were also given to Waldman which was for providing good services to the university and school of medicine. He got the coveted UMKC Medical Humanities Award. This award was given as he helped in the Sirridge office of medicine and the universities. Other nominations also include like UMKC Legacy Award and more. References 1.	Elsevier Online Authors Directory 2013 http://elsevierauthors.com/stevenwaldmanjd/ 2. 	Society For Pain Practice Management Website 3.	UMKC PRN Vol. 7 #5 pg 2 1977. 4.	Mayo Clinic Fellowscope Vol. 36 pg 3 1977. 5.	Mayo Clinic Fellowscope Vol. 38 pg 1 1979. 6.	Mayo Clinic Fellowscope Vol. 37 pg 1 1978. 7.	UMKC PRN Vol. 3 #9 pp1-2 1973. 8.	Yaksh TL: Opiate receptors for behavioral analgesia resemble those related to the depression of spinal nociceptive neurons. Science 199:1231, 1978. 9.	Wang JK, Nauss LE, Thomas JE: Pain relieved by intrathecally applied morphine in man. Anesthesiology 50:149, 1979. 10.	Kansas City Star Magazine Feb 20 1983 Cover Story. 11.    Journal of Pain and Symptom Management Table of Contents March 1985 12.	9.0 9.1 9.2 UMKC School Of Medicine Website Faculty Biography.